A Quotes
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“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
Source: Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.”
“A good action is preferable to an argument.”
Source: The Portable Voltaire
“A good actor is like a racehorse or a Ferrari. If a cylinder is missing on a Chevy, it's doesn't matter that much. But if something's not working right on a Ferrari, it makes a big difference. It's the three percent that makes the difference between good and great. It's a fine line. If you're not there, it's very painful.”
“A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.”
“A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.”
“A good actor knows exactly what the camera wants, what the sound wants, where to find the light and how to tell a good through line and journey.”
“A good actor makes clear the meaning of the words. A better actor gives also the emotion of the part. The best actor adds emotion of which the character is unconscious.”
“A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.”
“A good actor,' said Sunay in a light theatrical tone, 'is a man who represents the sediment, the unexplored and unexplained powers that have drifted down the centuries. He takes the lessons he has gleaned and hides them deep inside himself. His self-mastery is awesome; never does he bare his heart; no one may know how powerful he is until he enters on to the stage. All his life, he travels down unfamiliar roads, to perform at the most out-of-the-way theatres in the most godforsaken town, and everywhere he goes, he searches for a voice that will grant him genuine freedom. If he is so fortunate as to find that voice, he must embrace it fearlessly and follow it to the end.”
Source: Snow
“A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.”
“A good ad is one simple idea, with humanity in it, that connects with consumers, that represents the value system of a company and then can connect it with the consumer. We always say a brand is set of shared values. So if you can simply demonstrate your value system as a brand, so that a consumer could say, "Ah, our values line up. I vote for you, brand!" that's a good ad.”
“A good ad is worth so much more than just a little ad spend.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“A good ad leads to a two-way conversation where your audience is listening to you because you are listening to them.”
Source: The Art of Running a Successful Wedding Services Business: The Missing Puzzle Piece You’re Looking For
“A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.”
“A good ad which is not run never produces sales.”
Source: Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett
“A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.”
“A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity.”
“A good administrator should be a good listener, speak less and act more.”
“A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.”
Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view and yet modifies it as conditions develop. The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action.”
Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors
“A good album can make your day. A great album can change your life.”
“A good album should be more than the sum of its parts.”
“A good American friend of mine who has lived in India for many years, working as a journalist, was recently denied entry to the country because he wrote on Kashmir. This is a reflection of fractures within society. Pakistan, too, has to focus on the Lashkar [Lashkar-i-Taiba] and other similar groups and work towards some sort of sensible compromise on Kashmir.”
“A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.”
“A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is "South Park" - the hugely popular American cartoon show - and the things that the "South Park" creators have created, like "The Book Of Mormon," the Broadway musical. If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in "The Book Of Mormon," right? It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.”
“A good analogy is stretching a rubber band. You can stretch and stretch and even feel the tension increase in the muscles in your hands and arms as the gap from one end of the band to the other widens. But at some point you reach the limits of elasticity of the band and it snaps. The same thing happens with human systems.”
“A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.”
“A good and learned psychotherapist considers and digs into all factors in the context of physical, spiritual, political, and investigation in all dimensions before the decision. Mental disorders, illusions, delusions, and such terms may not always be physical issues; they can be real; they can be the process of spirituality; they can be the result of chemicals as a patient feels and realizes rather than mental or physical. Most psychotherapists are just like robots and professional bookworms and have no other subjects’ knowledge.
Whether delusion, illusion, hallucination, or mirage that carries a similar context as there is truth and also no truth: If you exemplify mirage, no doubt when a layer of water appears in a desert or on a warm road and causes the light to refract through the heat of the sun is truth, but a layer of water is truthless. Light exists, not a layer of water; it is a lack of knowledge, not a mental issue. Psychotherapists cannot treat a lack of knowledge with drugs. If they remain unable to understand it, of course, they also have a lack of knowledge.”
“A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.”
Source: Joan of Arc
“A good angel is only a dead angel.”
“A good antidote to nostalgia is to go home, and then you remember why you left.”
“A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.”
Source: Human, All Too Human
“A good apology has the minimum dumbass excuses possible. Dumb excuses don’t lead to a brighter future, dumb excuses don’t tell someone that you are actually a good person that cares about them and wants the best things for them and is also committed to doing the right thing.”
Source: sciVive
“A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.”
“A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.”
“A good approach is to allow one dream per novel. Then, in the final revision, go back and get rid of that, too.”
Source: How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
“A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth through a process of honest and vigorous debate. Arguments should not sneak around in disguise, as if dissent were somehow sinister... For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.”
“A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.”
“A good artist does not need to speak, because his work speaks for him!”
“A Good artist has less time than ideas.”
“A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.”
“A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.”
“A good artist must be good at many things.”
Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth
“A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection”
“A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.”
“A good artist should laugh often!”
Source: The Old Man Mad about Drawing: A Tale of Hokusai