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I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet.
— Josephine Jacobsen
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
— Benjamin Haydon
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
— Benjamin Haydon
Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.
— Benjamin Haydon
Invention is totally independent of the will.
— Benjamin Haydon
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
— Benjamin Haydon
Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.
— Benjamin Haydon
Life is more fun when you open your mouth.
— Neil Strauss
Flay us all and have done with skin, I thought.
— Claire Robertson
How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
— Benjamin Haydon
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
— Benjamin Haydon
It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.
— Benjamin Haydon
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
— Tom Stoppard
You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.
— Chuck Palahniuk
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
— Benjamin Haydon
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
— Edith Wharton
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
— Benjamin Haydon
Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.
— Michel Houellebecq
We both have a lot of growing-up to do ... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own. Leo — Emily Giffin
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
— Benjamin Haydon
Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.
— Benjamin Haydon
Christ Bleeding," Makin said, staring into the valley below us. "How ... " "Topology," I said. "It's a kind of magic.
— Mark Lawrence
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
— Benjamin Haydon
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
— Benjamin Haydon
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
— Benjamin Haydon
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
— Benjamin Haydon
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe