Mandela Perspective

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Laughter can bring a new perspective. - Christopher Durang

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

Few maxims are true from every point of view. - Marquis de Lac de Clapiers Vauvenargue

Sports do not build character; they reveal it. - John Wooden

Logic is neither science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. - Albert Einstein

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. - Nobu Matsuhisa

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

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. - Oscar Wilde

Do what you know and perception is converted into character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

In my last movie I played an unsympathetic character - myself. - Oscar Levant

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

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. - William Osler

Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character. - Brian Tracy

Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King Jr.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

Unto ourselves our own life is necessary, unto others our character. - St. Augustine

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

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

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective. - Paul Anka

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

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings. - Leo Tolstoy

Going without food or water will kill the body, but the lack of relationship will kill the minds and spirit. - David Jeremiah

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

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

A free Negro of the African race is not a 'citizen' within the meaning of the constitution of the United States. - Roger Taney

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. - Eckhart Tolle

From a shy, timid girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles. - Anna Dostoevsky