A Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!
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There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.
The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.
Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
This is your moment! Seize the opportunity to be great!
Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.
I've got the opportunity of a lifetime. Some great things are happening because of momentum and I'm just trying to seize the moment.
America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together.
There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.
Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.
I've always lived to seize the moment, to squeeze every drop of expectation out of myself for whatever that moment gives you.
At certain times in the revolutionary struggle, the difficulties outweigh the favorable conditions and so constitute the principal aspect of the contradiction and the favorable conditions constitute the secondary aspect. But through their efforts the revolutionaries can overcome the difficulties step by step and open up a favorable new situation, thus a difficult situation yields place to a favorable one.
Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.
The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry is directed. The course of events has given a direction to the genius of the time that threatens to remove it continually further from the ideal of art. For art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself bodily above necessity and neediness; for art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter.
Then down came the lid--the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has not ended yet: a "war to end war." But it merely ended art. It did not end war.
The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment.
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