Subject Quotes

Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

When a thing ceases to be subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

The less you know about a subject, the longer it takes you to explain it.

You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.

Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject.

Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject.

The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Words and sentences are subject to revision;

paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation;

the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance;

none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with. On the subject of Mr. Bean

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.