Pain Quotes - Page 242

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams." (Harry Braxton)

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.

If a company truly wants to resolve the innovator's dilemma, it does need to be able to create wave after wave of disruptive innovation. And those disruptive innovations will typically grow to the point where they do cause some pain for leading companies. But most disruptive innovations create substantial new growth before they cause that pain.

Pain happens to everyone. To grow up, to fulfill your potential, to develop into what God wants you to be-this process takes support. No one succeeds alone.

Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.

That's what is most satisfying, is having overcome that pain. Pain that is so intense that when you finish, it feels like you're going to die. That's what I wanted, and that's what I got.

Without intent all painting is meaningless.

Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime.

I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.

Pain is pain. It needs no description.

Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

I try to get through emotional pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way. I also use chocolate.

I depend on my family and friends a lot. I have a group of people I'm always honest and current with. I try to get through pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way.

Most of us have developed a fairly extensive vocabulary for describing pain, as though the journal were a doctor requiring much detail to make the correct diagnosis. The roundness of the spiritual journey cannot be expressed without developing an equally extensive vocabulary for talking to ourselves and others about the nature of wonder, joy, ecstasy, love, transfiguration.

The more you move toward what makes you feel good, and move away from those things which bring you distress and pain, the healthier you will be.

We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.

The key is just to ignore the pain, because physical comedy only works if you see someone get hurt and they aren't actually hurt. If someone gets hit in the face with a bat, falls down, and gets back up, it's funny. If they stay down and their jaw is wired shut in the next scene, it's really tragic and weird. You have to pretend it doesn't hurt.

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.

Looking back doesn't have to be painful.

That's right. I'm scared to death. You said it's your first time, feeling chest pain, and nausea. Well it's not mine. I've felt that before, and I know how crazy hot it boils, and how dangerous it is. And I know myself. I'm a Yang Eun-nem-bi, so I boil faster, and hotter, than everyone else.

Some people think to be strong is to never feel pain. However the strongest people are the ones that have felt pain, understood it, accepted it and learned from it.