Tom Thomson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one.”
-- Tom Thomson

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“No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.”
-- Tom Thomson

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“I'll stick to painting as long as I can.”
-- Tom Thomson

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“According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.”
“I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.”
“There's no committee that says, 'This is the type of person who can change the world - and you can't.' Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step. The next step is figuring out how you're going to do it.”
“He's smaller than me, did you see him? He looked like a noodle next to me.”
“Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.”
“Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one.”
“You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.”
“But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.”
“If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag.”
“Schrodinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory but a dodge-and a very good dodge too.”

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