Feels Quotes - page 8

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. (Vincent van Gogh)
A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, rather, he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think, he acts and it's nothing he can explain, he just feels how things should go. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done-that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward. View quote
Piers Anthony
A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Life and mind are continuously in conflict with each other. I want happiness, security. I won't reach that by considerations of my mind; on the contrary they will lead to a certain despair of the inner person. Not what he thinks engages the artist, but what he feels. View quote
Bram van Velde
It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. View quote
Ansel Adams
I don't think anybody whose ever been divorced can tell you divorce is easy or fun or feels like anything other than a tremendous failure. View quote
Sharon Stone
He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it. (John Green (author))
A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong. View quote
Lewis H. Lapham
Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat. View quote
Ronald Knox
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning. View quote
Warren Bennis
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels? View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded? View quote
Sherman Alexie
That's the thing about terrorism - it works. Especially for the terrorists - they might not get what they want but it feels damn good trying. View quote
Craig Ferguson
Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering. (Matthieu Ricard)
...the side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
"There is no God," cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values - is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account. View quote
Karl Jaspers
It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence. View quote
Stefan Zweig
The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land. View quote
Emma Goldman