It was served of the Jesuits, that they constantly inculcated a thorough contempt of worldly things in their doctrines, but eagerly grasped at them in their lives. They were wise in their generation; for they cried down worldly things because they wanted to obtain them, and cried up spiritual things, because they wanted to dispose of them.
I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement but I don't beat myself up over it.
I do think there is a completely different notion to glamour today. I think modern glamour is more effortless, easy, and real. Moreover, I think it's about constantly challenging classical ideas by bringing in unexpected and different elements; for example a long, elegant evening skirt paired with a simple t-shirt on the red carpet. I think this approach is the future.
Horace, when you get older, try to avoid being saddled with an apprentice. Not only are they a damned nuisance, but apparently they constantly feel the need to get the better of their masters. They’re bad enough when they’re learning. But when they graduate, they become unbearable. [The Kings of Clonmel Pg. 268]
Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly; you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit.
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.
I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.
Fear is something you have to throw into a corner. Constantly. Because it never goes away.
I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness.
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
When you're a well-known fashion photographer, modeling agencies call constantly. They'll say, This great girl is in town for three days. She's excellent, she's exciting. You've got to see her. . . So I decided to really have a look at them. I opened up my studio and said, Send anyone. . . And I became quite addicted to the whole thing. I was curious to see how many girls would come. I couldn't believe that there really were so many around.
The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.
I constantly doubt myself. I only feel confident in front of the camera.
I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to the states of being of the people I paint, and to the persistent need to get it right.
I went to work at the library. I know that sounds crazy but I didn't know where else to go. Besides, at the library I was constantly surrounded by people. And I loved my job, surrounded by so many books, so many lives, so much of the past.
The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse.
If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?
Im constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.
