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Tag Name "Hesitations" (13)

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How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.
Joaquin Sorolla
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That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know finally that all the damp little doubts and hesitations that covered the floor of his being were curling up and expiring in the great furnace-blast of the sun.
Paul Bowles
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If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold no one honors the timid.
Robert Greene
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If I ask you to plunge into the Ganga or to jump from the roof of a house, meaning it all for your good, could you do even that without any hesitations Just think of it even now otherwise don't rush forward on the spur of the moment to accept me as your Guru.
Swami Vivekananda
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What do I believe? It has been a long journey of discovery. There have been hesitations and errors along the way, and no doubt will be more, because I am still learning, both about myself and about life.
Anne Perry
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Books leave gestures in the body a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words.
Dionne Brand
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Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.
Nancy Friday
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I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.
Robert Doisneau
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In the transcribing and the editing, you want some retention of how the person speaks - you don't want to edit out all of the hesitations and idiosyncrasies. And to get people to say something they've never said before. That's big.
Sheila Heti
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It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.
Anibal Cavaco Silva
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You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.
Bruno Latour
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The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.
James J. Kilpatrick