“Every work is completely different. Sometimes the music is first, sometimes it's parallel, and sometimes the music is after. There's no rule. Music goes differently to your emotions. With music you can create different spaces and feelings easier than you can with the visual - maybe not easier, but in a way, it's more seductive.” WayFirstsDifferentSometimesFeelingsSpaceEmotionEasierMusic IsVisualsParallelsSeductive Author:Pipilotti Rist
“It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way.” IfsKnowsWayBookDifferentWholeCharacterActorsEasyViewsWrittenEasierSceneDrawsLet MePreparedScriptsWarmPoint Of ViewBrilliantEnjoyedAccentsLet Me GoNever Let Me Go Author:Carey Mulligan
“The outer is easier, and the outer is objective. For example, one man, Thomas Alva Edison, discovers electricity and the whole of humanity uses it; there is no need for everyone to discover it again and again. Inner growth is a totally different phenomenon. A Gautama Buddha may become enlightened, but that does not mean that everybody else becomes enlightened. Each individual has to find the truth for him or herself.” MenNeedsMayMeanDoeDifferentWholeUseMotivationalHumanityIndividualGrowthExampleEasierObjectivesEnlightenedPhenomenonOne ManAgain And AgainElectricityInner GrowthGautama Buddha Author:Rajneesh
“The internet helps with information exchange in general so it's obviously easier to check out tracks and whatnot from different genres. I think people are a lot more open to music in general because it's being communicated easier.” PeopleThinkingDifferentHelpingInformationInternetEasierTrackChecksGenreDifferent Genres Author:Girl Talk
“I think it is easier for thinner people to build on a frame once you get lean muscle. I get bored lifting weights at the gym, and it isn't enough as your body becomes stiff. So I train in different ways such as core training, cardio with weights, playing sports such as tennis, cycling, swimming and running 10 km once a week.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferentEnoughBodyRunningSportsWeekEasierTrainingWeightTrainYour BodyCoreBoredDifferent WaysTennisMusclesGymSwimmingLiftingCyclingCardioPlaying SportsCardiovascular ExerciseLifting Weights Author:Arjun Rampal
“I think the best models are actors, you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition. Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that, you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.” ThinkingWayFeelsLooksPersonsLongHas BeensDifferentCharacterSeemsMovingActorsActingStepsCrazyLike YouEasierLong TimeModelsBiggerDeeperTransitionLike YourselfModelling Author:Liberty Ross
“I am not afraid to stop the puck with my head. I try to do it sometimes even in practice; not everyday but once in a while, I say to my teammates, shoot me in my head and I'll try to stop the puck. I am not afraid at all of the puck, so sometimes, if the shot comes at my head, it's an easier save to make with your head. Maybe the people think a different way, but for me, I do it with my head.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayTryingDifferentSometimesPracticeEasierShotsEverydayDifferent WaysHockeyNot AfraidTeammateNhlPuck Author:Dominik Hasek
“The Anza Borrego Desert is a place of power, where different planes and realities intersect. It is easier to see and enter into other planes here.” DifferentRealityBuddhismEasierDesertPlanes Author:Frederick Lenz
“Its different being a director. I suppose, especially if its a story youve written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways its a lot easier than acting because youre orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes youre trying to second-guess what people want.” PeopleIfsWayWantFeelsTryingDifferentSometimesStoriesActorsActingPiecesWrittenEasierDirectorsCompelled Author:Paddy Considine
“My whole lifestyle is different. I have a really busy schedule, and I pretty much have an airplane ride every day. But I like it. It's cool. I like being busy. I think that it's good that I'm young and I'm going through this, and I'm not, like, 40. I think it's just easier now at a younger age to be going through what I'm going through because it's definitely really tiring and hard on the body.” ThinkingDifferentHardWholeBodyAgeYoungEasierBusyWhole LifeLifestyleAirplaneSchedulesTireBeing BusyBusy Schedules Author:Avril Lavigne
“But even if we were to disappear, people would still be divided into people and Others. No matter how those Others were different.People can't get by without Others. Put two people on an uninhabited island, and you'll have a human being and an Other. And the difference is that an Other is always tormented by his differentness. It's easier for people. They know they're people, and that's what they ought to be. And they all have no choice but to be that way. All of them, forever.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayHumansStillsTwoDifferentMatterChoicesDifferencesHuman BeingsForeverOughtEasierDisappearIslandsDividedDifferent Peoples Author:Sergei Lukyanenko
“How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone "reaping" than "killing"-and when one knows that death isn't the end, does it stop the killing hand for fear of retribution, or does it simply make it easier to kill, because, if life continues, how can murder be murder at all?” IfsKnowsDoeDifferentEndsHandsNamesEasyEasierConscienceMurderKillingRetributionDifferent Names Author:Neal Shusterman
“Technology has made it easier for different firms to coordinate their activities with one another, and they don't have to be part of one company. They can get the benefits of scale without the inertia of scale.” MadeDifferentCompanyTechnologyEasierActivityBenefitsScalesMade ItFirmInertiaCoordinates Author:Erik Brynjolfsson
“Not everybody is talented for doing research. I think many women prefer to look for an easier job after their dissertations because it is very demanding. You have to be mobile. You have to move to different places for your post-doc training. And if you aren't successful, it isn't a very pleasant job, either.” IfsThinkingLooksDifferentJobsMovingSuccessfulEasierTrainingResearchPostsPleasantMobileDifferent PlaceDissertation Author:Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
“There are many different types of people that end up coming to me and saying 'Yeah I want to cook.' Some of them successful, some not. There's no one formula, but if I get someone coming through the backdoor who knows that they want to get into the cooking field, they feel this inside-out love for it, this attraction to it, that person is an awful lot easier to work with.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantFeelsPersonsDifferentEndsSuccessfulFieldsTypeEasierYeahCookingAttractionAwfulCooksFormulasBackdoor Author:Paul Rankin
“With different scenarios and different places, I think it's easier for me to get inspired; I'm seeing different things.” ThinkingDifferentSeeingEasierInspiredDifferent ThingsScenariosDifferent Place Author:Alessia Cara
“The experience of playing music at a young age really opens up one's mind to different melody in life itself, literally - like, when you've even played a recorder, or whatever, it becomes a lot easier to hear the beauty in a bird's song, or the quiet tune in a gentle rustle of the wind.” MindDifferentAgeYoungSongWindEasierQuietBirdGentleTunesMelodyYoung AgePlaying MusicRecorders Author:Dave Smalley
“But it's very technical and you really have to work and work and work to crack it. It's about using your whole face, jaw and tongue in a totally different way. It was very interesting - I love the English language, which made it easier.” WayMadeDifferentWholeFacesLanguageInterestingEasierTongueMade ItDifferent WaysCracksVery InterestingEnglish Language Author:Marion Cotillard
“People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a totally different personality and right before the camera starts they see this new character. It confuses everything. Life has a consensus reality to it and if you use that to your advantage it makes it much easier.” PeopleIfsWayDifferentCharacterUseRealityCertainPersonalityEasierAdvantageCamerasExpectingConsensus Author:Richard Gere
“In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.” WayMindTwoDifferentSeemsSpeakStuffEasierInstrumentsDifferent WaysSoloSopranos Author:Evan Parker
“I learned many lessons from my first race with my heroes. I learned it was easier to breathe when I cried, so I cried often and without shame. I learned that a teammate's faith in you can propel you up any mountain. I learned that winning requires an entirely different mind-set than not losing. I learned that the best teams in the world share not only their strengths but also their weaknesses. I learned that you don't inspire your teammates by showing them how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are.” WorldMindFirstsDifferentWinningRaceTeamShareInspireHeroEasierLessonsMountainLosingWeaknessShameBreatheCriedTeammateMy HeroMind SetBest TeamDifferent Minds Author:Robyn Benincasa
“We're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that we're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find that it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. All the ones who don't have the same reality tunnel as us do not seem ignorant, or deliberately perverse, or lying, or hypnotized by some mad ideology, they just have a different reality tunnel. And every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world, if we're willing to listen.” PeopleIfsWorldDifferentRealitySeemsMightLyingRealizingInterestingViewsWillingEasierMadPoint Of ViewIgnorantIdeologyOur WorldTunnelsSomething InterestingDifferent Realities Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.” WritingDifferentHardViewsEasierWindowSeatsCastlesToiletsGood WritingBad WritingToilet Seat Author:Ben Hecht
“The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward.” IfsDifferentHelpingUseProblemSeemsStudyPlayerTheoryEasierMathematicsChessBeing TrueBranchesResolveLinksChess Players Author:Viswanathan Anand
“The problem of South Africa is different than the world thinks. There is no native problem. The native worker gets more than white workers do in England! [...] The South African government is not a police state. It's easier on people than the United States government!” PeopleThinkingWorldDifferentStatesProblemGovernmentWhiteUnitedUnited StatesEasierEnglandPoliceSouthWorkersNativeSouth AfricaState GovernmentPolice StateUnited States Government Author:L. Ron Hubbard
“I think there are always different times in your life when you go, "Oh, god. I wish I were traditionally pretty. My life would be so much easier." But then you get through that, and you go, "Well, I'm not."” ThinkingWellsDifferentWould BeWishEasierDifferent Times Author:Sandra Bernhard
“It's as interesting to me as someday getting to play in some beautiful period piece where the costumes are from a completely different era. This feels as extreme as that, and that's really liberating. It's really liberating to just go 180 from what my life is like. I love that! I love not having to think about clothes. I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, "It would be so much easier!"” ThinkingFeelsDifferentPlayWould BeWantedSchoolBeautifulLife IsInterestingPiecesPeriodsEasierClothesHigh SchoolExtremesErasSomedayUniformsCostumesLiberatingLife Is LikeDifferent Eras Author:Taylor Schilling
“I find that it's easier to do parts that are wrapped up in different hair and wardrobe and eras, and different period behavior, than it is to play closer to the present.” DifferentPlayHairPeriodsEasierBehaviorErasWardrobe Author:Scott Bakula
“I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead vocals from behind the drums in different bands that I'd been in, and I'd gotten great responses for the songs I would sing. I really started pursuing the possibility of being a lead singer based on the fact that I was working a full-time restaurant job and then playing gigs at night, hauling drums around. One day, it just dawned on me that, 'Hey, I could be in a band and be the singer, and it would be a lot easier!'” DifferentFactsWould BeJobsNightSongBehindsPossibilityDutyEasierOne DayBandSingingResponseSingersBackgroundsHeyRestaurantsVocalGigsDrummerDefault Author:Chris Cornell
“There are always different things that can happen and I Marjane Satrapi don't want to yell at other people. It's easier if we yell at each other. We're still friends, so obviously it worked out.” PeopleIfsWantStillsDifferentHappensEasierDifferent Things Author:Vincent Paronnaud
“There's a popular misconception that property boundaries are based on coordinates that surveyors can simply "walk to" with our instruments. The reality is that, while physical coordination of monuments is easier than it's ever been, property boundaries often need to be determined based on evidence and plans that are old, decrepit, and done with different technology and expectations than we have today.” NeedsDifferentDoneRealityTodayWalksTechnologyPlansEasierExpectationsEvidenceInstrumentsPropertyDeterminedBoundariesMonumentMisconceptionCoordinationCoordinatesDecrepitSurveyors Author:Mark Mason
“I've been studying sexism for many years, and it's much easier to document the existence of sexism than it is to document the existence of interventions that reduce it. It's really hard to find ways to change the way people see people in different groups. It should be our goal, and we're working for that, but it's hard.” PeopleWayShouldYearsDifferentHardGoalExistenceStudyGroupsEasierSexismDocumentsIntervention Author:Amy Cuddy
“When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it's different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize.” DifferentWarCountryAmericaMovementInvolvedEasierDegreesOur CountryVietnamOrganizeCentral America Author:Grace Paley
“Some people seem so different, some people feel so much more than other people, some people are able to push past things so much easier. And...it's just fascinating to me.” PeopleFeelsDifferentSeemsAblePastEasierFascinating Author:Marnie Stern
“It's much easier to put yourself out there under the guise of a character. You get a different name, different habits, different words. When I have to just be Nathan, that's when I feel vulnerable.” FeelsDifferentCharacterNamesHabitEasierVulnerableGuiseDifferent NamesPutting Yourself Out There Author:Nathan Parsons
“Running all my different companies has turned out to be a lot easier because I mediate twice a day and go to yoga every day.” DifferentRunningCompanyEasierYoga Author:Russell Simmons
“I believe that it is indeed easier for a woman who follows a male monarch, as it was in my case. There was no role model I had to measure up to. It was clear from the beginning that many things would be different, and that helped. And I hope that the same thing will help my son, Crown Prince Frederik, when he becomes king one day.” BelieveDifferentHelpingWould BeI BelieveRolesCasesClearSonKingsEasierOne DayModelsMalesMy SonRole ModelsCrownsMonarchs Author:Margrethe II of Denmark
“For some people, it's very easy to be spontaneous and they can pour out the most wonderful stuff. But it's really hard to exert control over it, to think, 'Well, this could be different. This could go in the opposite order, there could be more here and less there.' For other people, it's much easier to have rules and a methodology, but much harder to let loose and allow their feelings to come pouring out on the page. They're more shy or they're just more distant from their emotions. I think everybody starts with one or the other.” PeopleThinkingWellsDifferentHardFeelingsOrderEasyStuffEmotionWonderfulEasierPagesOppositesHarderShyOver ItSpontaneousPouringMethodologyBe Spontaneous Author:Alice Mattison
“The reason to have more racial diversity on any team is because it's helpful to have different perspectives on any issue. And I also believe that. It's easier said than done, unfortunately.” BelieveSaidDifferentReasonDoneIssuesTeamPerspectiveEasierDiversityHelpfulDifferent PerspectiveEasier Said Than DoneRacial Diversity Author:Megyn Kelly
“Cinema is the most challenging art form that you as an artist can create. It's easier to paint a painting because you're very alone. You just have the canvas in front of you and then you do stuff. I'm not saying it's easy to paint, but it's a solitary thing. Whereas movies combine so many different things from pre-production to production, sound design, production designing, leading, organizing, while still being creative.” ArtStillsDifferentFormArtistEasyStuffSoundChallengesCreativeFrontsDesignPaintingEasierPaintProductionsCinemaDifferent ThingsSolitaryCanvasBe CreativeSound Design Author:Baran Odar
“I think it's always when you go to caddie for another player, it's no different to when you start with a new player. The very most important thing is when you get the first opportunity to have a win is to try and show them that you know what you're doing. It's easier said than done.” ThinkingKnowsTryingFirstsSaidImportantDifferentDoneShowsOpportunityWinningPlayerEasierImportant ThingsCaddiesEasier Said Than Done Author:Steve Williams
“It's very different - the European way of working and the American way of working. There are two sides for each of them. In Italy, or France, we take it very slow. For example, we would have a lunch break of an hour or more. Just sitting down at the table, chitchatting. In America, it's like, "Grab your sandwich, we're ready to shoot in 10 minutes." But at the same time, everything works so much better in America. It's more efficient, so it's easier to bring the results home faster.” WayTwoDifferentHomeAmericaSidesHoursResultsBreakMinutesExampleReadyEasierSittingTablesFranceFasterLunchEfficientSandwichesTwo SidesSitting DownLunch Break Author:Bianca Balti
“Is it different to come out now than it was to come out thirty-five years ago? Sometimes. But if you come out now and you come from poverty and you come from racism, you come from the terror of communities that are immigrant communities or communities where you're already a moving target because of who you are, this is not a place where it's any easier to be LGBT even if there's a community center in every single borough.” IfsYearsDifferentSometimesMovingCommunityPovertyFiveEasierRacismYears AgoWho You AreTerrorThirtyFive YearsImmigrantsTargetLgbtCommunity Centers Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I wanted to be a real writer, you can put it this way, but I was lazy. So I thought that cinema would be funnier because it's collective, and it's crazy, and it's chaotic, and also because I was based in Spain. So I said it will be easy to make a career of that - because all the other filmmakers there are very bad. And it will be funny at the same time. So this was the point. It will be funnier, easier, and maybe at the end there will be some unknown beauty, and maybe on the way we'll create the dream that a different logic is possible for life.” WaySaidDifferentRealEndsDreamWould BeWantedEasyCareersCrazyEasierLogicCinemaFilmmakerLazyCollectivesSpainChaotic Author:Albert Serra
“It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.” PeopleIfsBelieveDifferentJobsEasyBreakEasierCapableSticksAssumptionGood PeopleMoldBreak Out Author:Christopher Meloni