Famous quotes containing the word pick:
“Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree, while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“To worry about spoiling an infant by comforting him when he cries is needless.... If you put the baby down and the baby cries, pick him up. His crying isnt a habit you should try to break. Your baby cant be taught not to cry.”
—Lawrence Balter (20th century)
“If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebodys nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. Its really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.”
—Willem De Kooning (b. 1904)