“I find I like to work with a lot of the same actors, because I find that there's sort of shorthand there, and there is this unspoken trust, both ways. They trust me and I trust them. And I know what I'm going to get from them, to an extent. It's just fun, kind of creating this little family.” KnowsWayKindLittlesActorsFunCreatingTrust MeUnspokenShorthand Author:Todd Phillips
“Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.” KindSongFunChallengesCreatingPopsDecadesDecentPop Song Author:David Sylvian
“Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.” KindBornBandTenCreatingFestivalsThings I LoveBillboardsGranddaddy Author:Michael Franti
“If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.” PeopleIfsFirstsKindPlayCreatingExcitingCaptureListeners Author:Joss Stone
“I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.” ThinkingKindCharacterCreatingPerfectionDefectsCrippled Book:Conversations with Tennessee Williams Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams
“Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldKindArtForeverCreatingNarrativeContradictionExpectingInherentConvenientEmbodimentFamous ArtistContradicting Author:Kiki Smith
“This is true Hollywood glamour! I am taking personal jewels from a screen legend and creating a one-of-a-kind pair of shoes,which will be worn by a movie star of today.” KindTodayStarsCreatingHollywoodShoesScreensPairsLegendsWornJewelsMovie StarGlamourPair Of ShoesOne Of A KindHollywood Glamour Author:Stuart Weitzman
“Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most fundamental beliefs. It has the potential to threaten the sacred family bonds at the very core of our ideals and our society. At its worst, it could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kind of children -- to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals.” HumansKindChildrenCertainHumanityIndividualBeliefWorstObjectsCreatingIdealsOur ChildrenMethodFundamentalsSacredCoreThings To DoRight ThingOur SocietyTraitsSelectMisguidedCloningFamily BondHuman Cloning Author:William J. Clinton
“When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus. One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working. Because when there's all this stuff going on, for me to be able to put on headphones and listen to music helps me keep my focus,. A big part of creating a character for me is finding the general palette for what kind of music I'm going to be listening to.” KindI CanCharacterHelpingBigsAbleJobsStuffFocusOne ThingListeningFindingsCreatingHelp MeConsistentListening To MusicPaletteHeadphones Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into the fictional world that I'm creating so fully as to see hours go by without my noticing it. I think that kind of suspension of time and that mindfulness is a real gift.” ThinkingWorldWayWritingKindI CanRealSometimesPlayHoursSeriousMindfulnessCreatingNoticingSuspensionFictional Worlds Author:Antonya Nelson
“I've done a number of films. I've been around this. I think the biggest challenge is just getting the script right, the way that you want the script to be. It's really about capturing the complexity of emotions and creating the kind of characters that people will want to watch every week.” PeopleThinkingWayWantKindDoneCharacterFilmChallengesNumbersEmotionWatchesWeekCreatingScriptsComplexity Author:Nicholas Sparks
“How Human beings are, that is how the society will be. So, creating human beings who are flexible and willing to look at everything rather than being stuck in their ideas and opinions definitely makes for a different kind of society. And the very energy that such human being carry will influence everything around them.” HumansLooksKindIdeasDifferentEnergyHuman BeingsOpinionInfluenceWillingCreatingStuckDifferent KindsFlexible Author:Jaggi Vasudev
“I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something youre really proud of and you spend a lot of time creating sometimes doesnt go anywhere, and something that you kind of do on the side, on a lark, ends up getting shared and passed around and having this big impact.” ThinkingKindIdeasEndsSometimesBigsSidesInformationProudCreatingImpactSpreadLarksBig Impact Author:Jonah Peretti
“I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.” ThinkingWritingKindCharacterArtistInterestingCreatingOppositesCleanActivismContradictionActivistOddsPalateCreating Characters Author:Eve Ensler
“As women's leadership qualities come to play a more dominant role in the public sphere, their particular aptitudes for long-term negotiating, analytic listening, and creating an ambiance in which people work with zest and spirit will help reconcile the split between the ideals of being efficient and being humane. This integration of female values is already producing a more collaborative kind of leadership, and changing the very ideal of what strong leadership actually is.” PeopleKindLongPlayHelpingSpiritValuesStrongTermLeadershipQualityRolesParticularListeningCreatingFemaleIdealsLong TermSpheresEfficientSplitsDominantBeing HumanIntegrationHumaneReconcileAnalyticsAptitudeNegotiatingZestLeadership QualitiesAmbiance Book:The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership Source: The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership
“The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that the customer would tolerate, churn it out as fast as possible, and charge as much as they could get away with. If it were possible to do so, the company would sell what all businesses of its kind dream about selling, creating that which all of our efforts were tacitly supposed to achieve: the ultimate product -- Nothing. And for this product they would command the ultimate price -- Everything.” IfsKindDreamEffortCompanyAchieveProductsCreatingUltimateSellsCustomersSellingCommandGet AwayTolerateEmployed Author:Thomas Ligotti
“I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction I write by hand, because I'm trying to achieve a kind of thoughtless state, or an unconscious instinctive state. I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.” WayWantWritingTryingFirstsKindStatesHandsSeemsReadingInterestingFictionStepsAchieveMaterialsComputerCreatingMessUnconsciousMost InterestingNon Fiction Author:Jennifer Egan
“My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.” PeopleKindAgeLeftVisionAudienceRocksInvolvedSceneBandCreatingSingingTownsPunkPunk Rock Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.” KindHardWholeRunningBattleCreatingFinalsCirclesLabels Author:Shelby Lynne
“I believe that everybody was born with a kind of uniqueness. There is never going to be somebody else with the same DNA as you, with the same experiences. There is something that you were meant to do as an individual. You have some kind of creative skill. It can either be creating your own business in some level, being a writer, an artist, whatever, or it can even be working within a company, but from within that company you're creating something.” BelieveKindArtistIndividualI BelieveBornLevelsCompanyCreativeSkillsCreatingUniquenessDnaOwn BusinessCreating Something Author:Robert Greene
“I like the fact that I can go away and lose myself so I don't have to live in the world of courage that everyone else does. I like creating, it's what I do, and acting allows me to stretch all those different muscles in all kinds of ways. That's pretty cool.” WorldWayKindDoeI CanDifferentFactsLosesActingCreatingAll KindsMusclesGoing Away Author:Roddy Piper
“When it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth. The technical sector is the backbone of the American economy, and if we start engaging in these kind of behaviors, in these kind of attacks, we're setting a standard, we're creating a new international norm of behavior that says this is what nations do. This is what developed nations do.” IfsKindEarthNationsLosesEconomyBehaviorCreatingStandardsInternationalSettingSettingsWarfareEngagingNormBackboneCyberAmerican EconomyCyber WarfareDeveloped Nations Author:Edward Snowden
“As an actor you bring some of your own experiences which can make things easier. You build off of it, but your imagination is always the best thing you have as far as creating things I think specifically for what that character is going through. But you're definitely drawing obviously upon things that you can connect to, and then you kind of mold the change that you're making into something that's right for the character.” ThinkingKindCharacterActorsImaginationEasierCreatingDrawingBest ThingsMoldCreating Things Author:Vince Vaughn
“I want to win. [...] We're not going on win by doing what Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton do each and every day. Dividing the country. Saying, creating a grievance kind of environment. We're going to win when we unite people with a hopeful, optimistic message. I have that message because I was a governor of a state that saw people lifted up, because we had high sustained economic growth.” PeopleWantKindCountryStatesWinningGrowthEnvironmentSawsEconomicCreatingMessagesClintonOptimisticBarackHopefulGovernorsEconomic GrowthGrievanceDividing Author:Jeb Bush
“The range of genre that we is very diverse, which makes for a fun and multi-dimensional show, but creating something that flows, depending on what kind of vibe the show is going to be [loud dive bar, small theatre, festival] is a bit of an art a haphazard art at times.” KindArtShowsFunBitsCreatingFlowTheatreBarsGenreRangeLoudDiverseFestivalsCreating SomethingHaphazard Author:Sarah Burton
“With the advent of digital imaging I made the transition from trying to figure out how to do things to creating objects, characters and the whole cloth. It kind of freed up the analytical part of my brain and I had the opportunity to use more of the creative side of my brain for how things interact with light and integrate into stories.” TryingKindMadeWholeCharacterStoriesUseLightOpportunitySidesBrainCreativeFiguresObjectsCreatingDigitalTransitionIntegratingAdventImaging Author:John Dykstra
“I'm just in the business of creating; creating new work inspires you to create new work. It's kind of funny.” KindInspireCreatingWorking ItNew Work Author:Karen Walker
“Because of the kind of music that I liked, and the different way that I dressed, it was kind of a perfect storm, creating a situation where I existed on my own throughout my schooling.” WayKindDifferentMy OwnPerfectSituationCreatingStormDifferent WaysSchoolingPerfect Storm Author:Andy Biersack
“There are some people who want me and my husband to stay where it is safe and draw a paycheck every week instead of what we are doing (which is creating and sharing our art with others). The truth is that there are people in this world - Dave and I being two - who would die a slow painful death if stuck in an office and made to do the kind of work that we are not made to do.” PeopleIfsWorldWantKindArtMadeTwoDiesWeekThis WorldTruth IsSafeHusbandOfficeCreatingDrawsPainfulStuckMy HusbandWant MePaychecksDavePainful Death Author:Mary Engelbreit
“I put a lot of effort in creating something fictional, yet very personal, because Shook is a defining part of me and my music: the Shook entity is much like the Batman or Superman comics characters. I like the idea that I can have this image that represents a part of me, but isn't really me, kind of like an alter ego.” KindI CanIdeasCharacterEffortEgoCreatingEntityDefiningCreating SomethingAlter Ego Author:Shook
“It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it comes down to creating the minutiae of detail. Writing fiction requires stamina, a sense of how people's lives work, how people work toward and against one another and, above all, precision.” PeopleWritingMindKindSelfCharacterMotivationCertainFictionCreatingDetailsPrecisionStaminaWriting FictionUnforgivingMinutiae Author:Cate Marvin
“Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.” WantKindPowerfulHealingTeachLessonsCreatingInstanceLost LoveKinds Of Love Author:Martha Beck
“It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind we're in it together.” FeelsKindMatterFactsTogetherJoyArtistDifficultMusicCreationCreatingNo Matter WhatJazzBrotherhoodDislike Author:Chick Corea
“First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.” FirstsKindBookFormFeltChallengesResponsibilityParticularPeriodsCreatingMy FamilyArtisticSlumsCreating Something Author:Frank McCourt
“This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the last writer standing.... I've got gray. I've got plenty of gray. I'm creating a career slowly, like a coral reef.” KindLastsCareersCreatingStandingPlentyExceptionGrayReefsCoral Reefs Author:Robert Reed
“To me, jewelry is a natural progression and there is something so meaningful and magical about creating that one of a kind, special piece.” KindNaturalPiecesSpecialCreatingMeaningfulJewelryProgressionOne Of A Kind Author:Pamela Love
“Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures and then we look at them later and we say, 'Isn't this a great family?' So photography is instrumental in creating family not only as a memento, a souvenir, but also a kind of mythology.” LooksKindIdeasGoes OnCreatingPhotographyMythologyVacationConstructsSouvenirsGreat FamilyMemento Author:Larry Sultan
“In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the world of scarce materiality and a hybridity becomes a way of creating a new authenticity. Sometimes there is a certain kind of nobility of a group of materials literally of the earth, which had a certain nobility of presence, but is very different from the materials we have now.” WorldWayKindDifferentSometimesEarthFormCertainGroupsConditionsMaterialsCreatingPatternsArchitectureAuthenticityRelevantNobilityScarceTextilesMaterialityHybridity Author:David Adjaye
“Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating virtue.” KindLightAbleDarknessVirtueCreating Author:Jeremiah Burroughs
“Mea culpa, mea culpa. MIT and Wharton and University of Chicago created the financial engineering instruments, which, like Samson and Delilah, blinded every CEO. They didn't realize the kind of leverage they were doing and they didn't understand when they were really creating a real profit or a fictitious one.” KindRealRealizingCreatingInstrumentsUniversityFinancialProfitChicagoEngineeringCeoBlindedMitSamson Author:Paul Samuelson
“My deal is to understand: you trust me, I trust you. It's a two-way street. Developing that happens over time. It's hard. I look forward to that. I look forward to being a part of these guys' lives. This isn't just about ball. This is about creating a brand for yourself. This is about setting you apart for the rest of your life. That's kind of been how I do it. I look forward to being involved in these guys' lives. Part of that is winning some ballgames. I've got a blueprint on how that works, yet every place is different, so you need to adjust the blueprint based on what's there.” WayNeedsLooksKindTwoDifferentHardHappensGuyWinningDealsStreetsInvolvedCreatingBallsSettingSettingsBrandsDevelopingTrust MeRest Of Your LifeTwo WaysBlueprintsI Trust YouBallgameTwo Way Street Author:Jim McElwain
“That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.” GivingWritingKindSoulLyingImaginationEventsFindingsCreatingTiredTreasureWornSparkleWorn OutInvigoratingHidden Treasure Author:Isabel Allende
“...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the fate of human beings," and allowing technology to permeate every aspect of our lives. In the United States, both of these developments have converged, creating a huge chasm between rich and poor and pushing us over the edge into a kind of antisociety... While these developments have been widely hailed as the dawn of a golden age, the likelihood is that they actually amount to a death knell, the beginning of the end of the American empire.” WayHumansKindHas BeensTwoEndsStatesAgeHuman BeingsPoorUnitedTechnologyUnited StatesRichOur LivesFateHugeDevelopmentAmountDirectorsCreatingAspectEdgesGoldenDawnEmpiresPushingAllowingSoleTwo WaysRich And PoorLikelihoodGolden AgeChasmsOver The EdgeAmerican Empire Author:Morris Berman
“The state of mind of the photographer creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exists only at special times, namely when looking for pictures. -Something keeps him from falling off curbs, down open manholes, into bumpers of skidding trucks while in this condition but goes off duty at other times. . . . This is a very special kind of blank. A very active state of mind really, it is a very receptive state. . .” MindKindStatesMightFallSpecialConditionsDutyCreatingAddPhotographerActiveState Of MindBlankTruckReceptiveCurbBumperFalling OffSpecial Times Author:Minor White
“I love the idea of creating a sort of nuanced portrait of kids that they're not all perfect. They're kind of misfits but not in a picturesque, hip way, they're really, really kids that are not entirely great.” WayKindIdeasKidsPerfectCreatingHipsPortraitsMisfitsPicturesque Author:Guillermo del Toro
“That was a very natural process because as I was creating the animatic I added music clips as reference of the kind of music I wanted in the film. These were from musicians like Naná Vasconcelos and Barbatuques, the body percussion group.” KindBodyWantedFilmProcessNaturalGroupsCreatingMusicianClipPercussionNans Author:Alex Abreu
“In underground music, there seems to be this real inability for people to express themselves in any kind of heroic or mythological way. There's this idea that we're all normal joes, and that creating a persona onstage or having schtick is somehow false and misleading and evil.” PeopleWayKindIdeasRealSeemsEvilNormalCreatingHeroicInabilityPersonaMisleadUnderground Music Author:Ian Svenonius
“When I'm in the middle of a book it can go up from there. When you're putting in those hours, the real world kind of fades and the world you're creating becomes almost more real to you than the outside world.” WorldKindBookRealHoursMiddleCreatingReal WorldFadesOutside World Author:Dean Koontz
“When you make a film, you're creating the illusion of a natural experience. But everything is created on purpose. If I want you to be scared, I'm trying to scare you. If I want you to cry, I'm trying to make you sad. If I want you to laugh, I'm trying make you laugh. So, how I get you there is what makes it interesting, because I also want it to feel seamless, and not forced. That kind of constant experimentation is just fun to explore, and I love it.” IfsWantFeelsTryingKindFilmPurposeFunNaturalInterestingLaughingCryCreatingIllusionConstantScaredScareI Want YouExperimentationMake You LaughSeamless Author:Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
“I would model well-being by presenting myself as a high-energy person who loves what I am doing and who is thrilled to be able to offer books, tapes, and products designed to make people feel good. I would explain that they are in a store filled with this kind of energy and that creating such a space is exactly why I got into the business in the first place. If you want to feel good, then my store is the place you should visit on a regular basis. I would stay very informed about what's out there and make sure I carry many things with very high energy.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsShouldFirstsWellsKindPersonsBookAbleEnergySpaceProductsOffersCreatingModelsBasesFilledStoresFeel GoodWell BeingTapePresentingHigh Energy Author:Wayne Dyer