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-from the musical 1776...
Is Anybody There? Does Anybody Care? (John Quincy Adams)
We can choose to complain about the world or not. When we go to the quiet place in our hearts where our Spirit lives and we train ourselves to listen to that Voice, our mistakes and disgruntles become less and less. (Jeanne Aisthorpe-Smith)
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. (Maya Angelou)
Any fool can criticize, complain, condemn, and most fools do. (Anonymous)
Spend the time creating rather than complaining. (Robin Antar)
You only get what you expect out of life and people only treat you the way you allow them. So suck it up, get over it, and go create something. (Jo Appleton)
Take away the complaint "I have been harmed," and the harm is taken away. (Marcus Aurelius)
You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache. (Bernard Baruch)
We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. (Bishop Berkeley)
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. (Charlotte Bronte)
You are no bigger than the things that annoy you. (Jerry Bundsen)
No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves. (Thomas Carlyle)
-from The Franklin's Tale...
One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not. (Geoffrey Chaucer)
When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain... (Leonard Cohen)
Never complain and never explain. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain. (John Dryden)
You can't complain about what you permit. (Faith Duck)
Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
She complains, "You're ignoring me" and he says, "Ah, yes. She senses the presence of the Muse, and she's jealous. (Padraic Fiacc)
Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at? (W. S. Gilbert)
Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 1833-98, considered it a desecration that smoking and flirtation should take place in the presence of his canvases. (Helen Hale)
Western artists are peculiar. They have the best supplies and conditions possible to make art, yet they complain the most! (Margaret Henkels)
Don't moan, don't whine, don't blame. Just get on with it. (Katharine Hepburn)
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. (Lou Holtz)
People often complain of making 'mud'... You can mix as many colours as you like on the palette, but put it on 'right the first time.' (Amanda Hyatt)
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. (Carl Jung)
-to friend Steven Pressfield...
You're where you want to be, aren't you? So you're taking a few blows. That's the price for being in the arena... Stop complaining and be grateful. (Tony Keppelman)
When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. (Dalai Lama)
Make art, not strife. (Lynda Lehmann)
I will not hang out with whining people – it messes with my spirit. (Barbara McCleary)
Complainers are looking for excuses not to work – it's easier to drown oneself in excuses and get mired down – and yes, if we are truthful with ourselves few of us, including me, have not been there. (Carolyn McDade)
-on why he had not married...
I have a wife too many already, namely this art, which harries me incessantly, and my works are my children. (Michelangelo)
Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. (Sir William Osler)
Never complain, never explain. (Dorothy Parker)
Don't complain; just work harder. (Randy Pausch)
-said during the 1981 recession...
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. (Prince Philip)
It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work. (Walter J. Phillips)
I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet. (Indian proverb)
No one respects a whining, broke artist. (Bob Ragland)
I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else. (Robert Rauschenberg)
-on Leonardo da Vinci...
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. (Jim Rohn)
If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. (Jim Rohn)
The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. That is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big. (Jim Rohn)
If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished? (Rumi)
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want. And if they can't, make them. (George Bernard Shaw)
It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. (Fulton J. Sheen)
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application. (Samuel Smiles)
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. (Lily Tomlin)
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. (Mark Twain)
What we complain of in others, others will complain of in us. (unknown)
It's not them, it's you. / It's not there, it's here. / It's not then, it's now. (Author unknown)
At the conclusion of the exhibition several artists were complaining about "lack of sales, poor advertising by the sponsor of the event, all lookers - no buyers," etc... and they had spent their time avoiding conversations (except while on their cell phones), talking to their friends but nobody else and avoiding eye contact with potential customers - essentially creating the very thing they feared... lack of sales due to lack of enthusiasm! (Dorenda Crager Watson)
Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along. (Paramahansa Yogananda)
1-Don't analyze. 2-Don't complain. 3-Don't compare yourself to others. 4-Don't expect things to be done for you. 5-Don't expect perfection in the relative. 6-Look to the knowledge aspect daily. 7-Own the movement. 8-Problems are all in your head. 9-Hold yourself together. (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. (Ziggy)
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