Arthur Lismer Quotes

#1. Nine SPEAKING IN TONGUES The following is based on a lecture given at the New York Public Library in December 2008. 1

Zadie Smith

#2. Turning points in my life ... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls ... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another ... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line.

Arthur Lismer

#3. I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.

Jason Alexander

#4. If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering.

Jeff Goins

#5. Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don't focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.

B. J. Fogg

#6. Don't paint the apple; paint the red.

Arthur Lismer

#7. Motivating Yourself in the Morning

Riley Stevens

#8. What your body looks like has nothing to do with how well your brain works!

Sharon M. Draper

#9. People always say 'Motivation is great but it doesn't last.' I just tell them, bathing does not last either, that is why I recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

#10. Once you have opened up prisoner interrogation, wiretapping, border patrol, jailing and the services of the military, when this has been turned into a for-profit business in this endless war, then we're in deep trouble.

John Cusack

#11. Jackson is the most consummate sketcher I have ever known. These little panels, handy on the trail, could be handled as easily as an expert marksman uses a quiver full of arrows.

Arthur Lismer

#12. Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.

Arthur Lismer

#13. My kids know the importance of being active - and that's why teaming up with the USTA was such an organic fit for me. They are making strives to get families outside - and using tennis as a way to get kids to stay active.

Laila Ali

#14. Losers focus on what they are going through; winners focus on what they are going to.

John C. Maxwell

#15. It is necessary that ... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds ...

Arthur Lismer

#16. Imagine a glorious full moon coming over the tops of the spruce, big and yellow, shedding a mysterious light on everything ... the moonlight had colour, you could see to paint and be able to appreciate the colour of things.

Arthur Lismer

#17. The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.

Evel Knievel

#18. It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

Arthur Schnitzler