V.I. Arnold Quotes

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.

One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!

The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

If I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it.

Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.

I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

You don't make your character in a crisis, you exhibit it.

With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself, because if you don't, no one else will.

Wishes on their way to coming true will not be rushed.

Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.

Harmony is a wonderful thing, but not nearly as powerful as awareness.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.

There are no more geniuses, only critics.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

Maturity is the ability to live in someone else's world.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

My wife's nagging is like living near the airport. After a while you don't notice it any more.

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.

We don't take photographs with our cameras, we take them with our hearts and our minds. They are a reflection of ourselves...wha t we are and what we think.

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

If you can see it, you can hit it and if you can hit it, you can hole it.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.

We must be able to identify all the parts in a system and allow them to speak. All the parts in a group, even those we do not like or believe to be useless, must be present and supported.

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

Winter is beautiful, but bed is better.

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.