Mandela Perspective

All of nature is God's art. - Dante

Dust thou art, to dust returnest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

Maintenance is as much art as it is science. - Unknown

Character is much easier kept than recovered. - Thomas Paine

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin

Appropriate rules cultivate a disciplined character. - Bill Welker

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. - F Scott Fitzgerald

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way. - Allen Klein

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist. - Austin O'Malley

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. - Daniel Webster

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. - William Hazlitt

Sometimes the best communication happens when you're on separate bikes. - Unknown

Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame. - Baltasar Gracian

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. - Seth Godin

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. - Ronald Reagan

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell

No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them. - J. Petit Senn

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

Your reputation is what you’re perceived to be, Your character is what you really are. - John Wooden

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. - Joan Baez

Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be thankful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. - Harvey Mackay

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent. - Ingrid Newkirk

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. When health is lost, something is lost. When character is lost, all is lost. - Rev. Billy Graham

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

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay

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