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Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: italian
Birth: April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519

Topics

Water Mind Inaction Iron Purity Sap

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

Knowledge Ignorance Man Step First

The technologies of convenience are making our sphere of exploration and experience smaller.

Experience Exploration Convenience

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

Alone Story You Pictures Know See

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Michel de Montaigne

Conversation Boring More Where Than

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

Education Music Lawyer You Go Want

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Man Brainy Trials Without Gem Nor

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.

People Chaos Song I Can Know Way

You can't negotiate in public. People won't make concessions in public. They will do that in private. Like sausage making, you have to do it behind closed doors.

Jonathan Powell

People Doors You Will Sausage Like

My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local swim races. My sister, Marcia, became a competitive springboard diver, and my brother excelled in water polo.

Family Water Sail Brother Sister

I just remember watching my first theater class, and I was like, 'Oh I can get up there,' like I could absolutely get up and do this every day and learn about it.

Brian Tyree Henry

Day Learn Remember Every Day I Can

One of the few things the Air Force did admit to me existed out there presently without admitting that it was Area 51 is this drone called the 'Beast of Kandahar' which does not fire missiles, unlike the Predator and the Reaper, but just conducts surveillance.

Fire Me Admit Beast Air Force Air

If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.

Happen Been Would Happened Supposed

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