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«Better to be pruned to grow than cut up to burn.»
Author: John Trapp | Keywords: cut up, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning
«Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.»
Author: Red Auerbach | Keywords: natural ability, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning
«Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright (Architect, Writer) | Keywords: Harvard, perfectly, plum, plums, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, students, turns
«Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr. (Lawyer, Philosopher) | About: Ability | Keywords: abilities, natural, natural ability, plants, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, study
«Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.»
Author: Groucho Marx (Actor, Comedian, Singer) | Keywords: applesauce, Best Art, cranberries, cranberry, East, East Is East, East of, on the other hand, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, rhubarb, stew, stewed, stewing, taste, Tell Me, West
«Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.»
Author: Henri Matisse (Artist, Painter) | About: Instinct | Keywords: branches, Branches of, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, thwart, thwarted, thwarting, thwarts
«Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips...»
Author: Charles Dickens | Keywords: papa, potatoes, poultry, prism, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning
«Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr. (Lawyer, Philosopher) | About: Ability, Plants | Keywords: abilities, at large, bounded, directions, give forth, natural ability, plants, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, studies
«The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | Keywords: blood, bush, bushes, deeply, draws, nourished, One Blood, planted, pricked, pricking, pricks, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, The Bush, thorn
«As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: concentrate, gardener, gardeners, limbs, miscellaneous, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, severe, vigorous
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