Mandela Perspective

Character is destiny. - Greek Proverb

I was playing a character. - Paris Hilton

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman

Art is a house that tries to be haunted. - Emily Dickinson

Adversity tests a man's true character. - Unknown

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

Character is much easier kept than recovered. - Thomas Paine

Happiness is not the end of life; character is. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

We have art so that we do not die of reality. Reality is too much with us. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. - Ralph Richardson

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. - Truman Capote

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. - Abba Eban

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

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. - James Allen

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I have a great relationship with the blacks. I've always had a great relationship with the blacks. - Donald Trump

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. - Albert Einstein

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. - Kermit The Frog

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thin in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

Relationships are about give and take; not tit-for-tat. If you're keeping score, you'll lose at your own game. - Faydra D. Fields

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. - Bernie Brillstein

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

Life is no different than the weather. Not only is it unpredictable, but it shows us a new perspective of the world every day. - Suzy Kassem

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. - Zig Ziglar

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. - Nelson Mandela

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Unknown