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David Seabury Art Quotes - (19 quotes)

David Seabury - From the Advice category:

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise. (David Seabury)

David Seabury - From the Choices category:

Nature is at work... Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. (David Seabury)

David Seabury - From the Complexity category:

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear. (David Seabury)

David Seabury - From the Consideration category:

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others. (David Seabury)

David Seabury - From the Conviction category:

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons... (David Seabury)

David Seabury - From the Courage category:

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. (David Seabury)

David Seabury - From the Dealers category:

No man will work for your interests unless they are his. (David Seabury)

David Seabury - From the Desire category:

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts... (David Seabury)

David Seabury - From the Efficiency category:

Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you. (David Seabury)

David Seabury - From the Enthusiasm category:

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others. (David Seabury)

David Seabury - From the Humour category:

Good humor isn't a trait of character; it is an art which requires practice. (David Seabury)

David Seabury - From the Ideas category:

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action. (David Seabury)

David Seabury - From the Leadership category:

Manage yourself first and others will take your orders. (David Seabury)

David Seabury - From the Love category:

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. (David Seabury)

David Seabury - From the Perseverance category:

A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered. (David Seabury)

David Seabury - From the Problems category:

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ambivalence: a collision between thought and feeling. (David Seabury)

David Seabury - From the Procrastination category:

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice. (David Seabury)

David Seabury - From the Truth category:

The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves. (David Seabury)

David Seabury - From the Wisdom category:

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action. (David Seabury)



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Editor: Robert Genn

Assistant Editor: Shawn Jackson

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