A Quote by Mason Cooley

Grandiosity lessens as work proceeds.

Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the endgame they turn out, as a rule, to be weak.

Boris Spassky

In a community of human beings working together, the well-being of the community will be the greater, the less the individual claims for himself the proceeds of the work he has himself done; i.e., the more of these proceeds he makes over to his fellow workers, and the more his own requirements are satisfied, not out of his own work done, but out of work done by the others.

Rudolf Steiner

I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.

Christian Bale

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

Honore de Balzac

When immigration proceeds at a steady but modest clip, deep change comes slowly, and there's time for assimilation to do its work.

Ross Douthat

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

James Altucher

Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed, an architectural one, where it is constructed, and finally a textile one, where it is woven.

Walter Benjamin

The average action game doesn't much traffic in thematic grandiosity, but the BioShock games are different.

Tom Bissell

Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

Honore de Balzac

The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.

Odilon Redon

From the ashes of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets transformed its grandiosity and excesses into boldness and virtuosity. Plus, it wasn't afraid of a catchy hook or two.

Carrie Brownstein

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.

Bill W.

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

Edward Hopper

Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.

Susan Faludi

Hope of gain lessens pain.

Benjamin Franklin

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