Mandela Perspective

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

All of nature is God's art. - Dante

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

The true art of memory is the art of attention. - Samuel Johnson

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity. - J.B. Gough

God is not interested in your art but, your heart. - Ifeanyi E. Onuoha

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas

Botany: The art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. - Napoleon Hill

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock. - Charles Simmons

Fame: The advantage of being known to those who do not know us. - Sebastien Chamfort

Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. - Robert Motherwell

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor. - Oscar Wilde

In a comic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. - Carl Sagan

The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character. - Emma Dunham Kelley

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. - Peter Drucker

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. - Ambrose Bierce

No matter how much fame and fortune you achieve, don't get wrapped up in yourself. - Dal Richards

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

My perspective on my mother has changed immensely. She was a lot taller when I was younger. - Howie Mandel

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated. - Honor Blackman

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. - Marcus Aurelius

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view. - Robert Frost

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? - Fidel Castro

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa. - Mark Zuckerberg

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

While some pain is probably inevitable in all relationships, successful couples are usually the ones who are able to forgive. - Ilona Boniwell

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it. - Yayoi Kusama

Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times. - Voltaire