Quotes about Masterpiece

Actor, Author, Author

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Challenge - Improvement - Inspiration - Learning - Masterpiece - People - Positive - Success - Teaching

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Marcel Proust

Dramatist, Author, Novelist

Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a secondary state which is often superadded, but the want of which can have no prejudicial effect on it. Perhaps some of the greatest masterpieces were written while yawning.

Effectiveness - Feelings - Infallible - Masterpiece - Pleasure - State - Value - Wants - Writing

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Vladimir Nabokov

Leader, Novelist, Novelist

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

Fiction - Masterpiece - Original - Reading - World

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

Confusion - Curiosity - Masterpiece - Modern

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John C. Maxwell

Scientist, Clergyman, Author

What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day - their masterpiece.

Book - Help - Masterpiece

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

Atheism - Extraordinary - Masterpiece - Universe

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Vladimir Nabokov

Leader, Novelist, Novelist

I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.

Masterpiece - Wit

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Animals - Art - Masterpiece - People - Religion - Thinking - Training

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H. P. Lovecraft

Writer, Novelist, Author

One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which suffuses them and style alike with that grotesquerie and disquieting distortion characteristic of morbid vision. Only a cynic can create horror - for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving daemonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them.

Character - Cynicism - Detachment - Drive - Force - Human - Illusion - Imagination - Magic - Masterpiece - Mockery - Perfection - Psychology - Real - Story - Style - Vision - Writing

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Marcel Proust

Dramatist, Author, Novelist

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Alone - Greatness - Masterpiece - Religion - World

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Virginia Woolf

Writer

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Masterpiece

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Rhonda Byrne

Actress, Writer, Writer

Choose your thoughts carefully [...] you are the masterpiece of your own life.

Attraction - Masterpiece

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Marcel Proust

Dramatist, Author, Novelist

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

Masterpiece - Mindset

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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece.

Masterpiece

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Rajneesh

Guru

Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece - unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique.

Masterpiece - Unique

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Writer, Poet

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Family - Masterpiece - Nature

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Rajneesh

Guru

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Becoming - Enlightenment - Inspiration - Masterpiece - Realization

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John C. Maxwell

Scientist, Clergyman, Author

Leaders don't rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits; they make every day a masterpiece.

Development - Habit - Inspiration - Leadership - Masterpiece

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Art - Comfort - Masterpiece - Speaking - Waiting

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Emile M. Cioran

Philosopher

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

Flow - Masterpiece

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