A Quote by Paul Klee

It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.

Paul Klee

Quote Topics

Difficulty Great Necessity Smallest Start

Quote Author

Paul Klee
Swiss - Artist
December 18, 1879 - June 29, 1940

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

Chiaki Kuriyama

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand

Seneca the Younger

I know that God our Father is in this work in great congregations . . . and in the smallest branch and the smallest congregation.

Loren C. Dunn

Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.

Glen Campbell

If you find great difficulty in trying to reckon with the future or even the present, I think it's intuitive to start that process by reckoning with the past.

James Spader

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

Frank Harris

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

Benjamin Franklin

Not only do you need great lyrics, a great message, a great story, great vocals, great chords... you also need great instrumentation, great editing, great sonics, great mixing, and great mastering. It all comes together to make something truly great, and I think each element combines together to create a powerful impact on the consumer.

Joey Sturgis

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food.

Henry Fielding

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.

Douglas Leone

You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work. It's kind of a mystery how that happens.