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“I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its own specially defined parameters and becomes a method for positive statistical inference in new cases, does not inspire me with any confidence unless it is applied by a statistician by whom the main elements of the dynamics of the situation are either explicitly known or implicitly felt.”

Source: Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

“The elements in a relationship which seem impossible to share, the secretly disturbing, dissatisfying elements, are the most rewarding to share. This is a hard, risky, frightening thing to learn, and it needs to be re-learned over and over.”

Needs Hard Seems Impossible Share Elements Frightening Disturbing

Author:Carl Rogers

“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.”

Elements Approach Climate Conclusion Frightening Humiliate

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Memeticists have to give empirical evidence to support the claim that, in the micro-processes of cultural transmission, elements of culture inherit all or nearly all their relevant properties from other elements of culture that they replicate.”

Giving Culture Process Support Elements Evidence Claims Property Relevant Transmission Replicate Empirical Evidence

Author:Dan Sperber

“The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.”

Belief Elements Performers Standing Out Likelihood

Author:Charles Garfield

“The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, one notes a decline in collective enthusiasm due to the effect of a quantitative diminution in each of the elements that make up the mass. Work is paralyzed until it is reduced to an insignificant level. It is time to make a correction.”

Sometimes States Whole Individual Mistake Elements Mass Enthusiasm Contribution Making Mistakes Collectives Quantity Decline Insignificant Decrease Corrections

Author:Che Guevara

“A fish swims in the ocean, and no matter how far it swims there is no end to the water. A bird flies in the sky, and no matter how far it flies there is no end to the air. However the fish and the bird have never left their elements. Thus each of them totally covers its full range, and each of them totally experiences its realm... Know that water is life and air is life. The bird is life and the fish is life. Life must be the bird and life must be the fish... practice, enlightenment and people are like this.”

People Knows Ends Matter Left Water Practice Air Sky Elements Ocean Bird Enlightenment Fishes Range Realms Swim Water Is Life

Author:Dogen

“When I wrote Wakolda at first I wasn't conscious that I was writing about something so close to or that had so many similar elements with XXY. It was just after I was done writing that I noticed it. I think both teenagers in each film have many similarities, and Mengele is the extreme version of the plastic surgeon in XXY. Both stories definitely have several ideas connecting them.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Ideas Done Stories Film Elements Conscious Extremes Versions Teenager Plastic Connecting Surgeons Similarity Plastic Surgeons

Author:Lucia Puenzo

“I think it's absolutely fantastic to give the combination of the major structural element for the growth of a filmmaker. It's technical know-how, some money to get on with it, and the dream that he can always grow.”

Thinking Knows Giving Dream Grows Growth Know How Elements Majors Fantastic Combination Filmmaker

Author:Jihan El-Tahri

“The most important part of filmmaking is the collaboration and the ensemble element of it. If you just all focus on the task and the work and try and make the best film that you can then people will come.”

People Ifs Trying Important Film Focus Elements Tasks Collaboration Filmmaking Ensemble Best Film

Author:Nina Jacobson

“I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.”

Want Elements Ridiculous Satire

Author:David Shrigley

“After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold.”

Feels Writing Long Fiction Information Elements Discovery Gold Nonfiction Writing Fiction

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.”

People Knows Writing Character Elements

Author:Aziz Ansari

“Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.”

Thinking Film Numbers Television Elements Distinction Imaginary Honorable Documentaries Wishful Thinking

Author:Ruth Ozeki

“I don't think that what I'm doing [political cartooning] is necessarily left versus right. What I'm addressing is top versus bottom. If I'm not spending a lot of time making fun of the more extreme elements of the Green Party, it's because what I do is to critique power.”

Ifs Thinking Political Left Fun Party Elements Green Bottom Extremes Spending Versus Critique Green Party

Author:Tom Tomorrow

“Wahhabism goes and takes elements from the Islamic tradition that are most oppressive of women, and highlights and enlarges them and makes them the whole of Islam. In my view, that's a clear corruption of the Islamic tradition.”

Whole Views Clear Elements Tradition Islam Corruption Islamic Highlights

Author:Khaled Abou El Fadl

“The most important element of democracy, I believe, is the protection of minorities.”

Believe Important I Believe Democracy Elements Protection Minorities

Author:Shahin Najafi

“I don't think comics necessarily think in literary terms. There is an element of developing your stage persona and your comedic voice, but I don't think comics see it like a character in a novel.”

Thinking Character Voice Term Novel Stage Elements Developing Persona Comedic Literary Terms

Author:Ted Alexandro

“In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns.”

Knows Reality Space Painting Elements Patterns Dissolving

Author:Francesca DiMattio

“I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.”

Writing Song Creativity Elements Improvising

Author:Jamie Lidell

“For me, at some point, the idea of struggling through the process was not as interesting as doing tests and executing the painting after I figured out all of its elements and how they were going to work together.”

Ideas Together Process Interesting Struggle Painting Elements Tests Working Together Going To Work Executing

Author:Laura Owens

“Sometimes a collage element I hit upon can inspire the entire drawing.”

Sometimes Inspire Elements Drawing Collages

Author:Laura Owens

“Nakamura Tempu Sensei viewed the mind as a segment of the body that could not be seen and the body as the element of the mind that was observable. He also likened the mind and body to a stream, with the mind as the source flowing down to the body. Whatever we drop in the stream will be carried down by the current. In like manner, our thoughts will influence the body and our well being.”

Mind Wells Body Influence Source Elements Currents Well Being Streams Our Thoughts Mind And Body Sensei

Author:H. E Davey

“The fingerprinting requirement affected only law-abiding citizens that want to buy firearms. It had no impact on Baltimore's criminal element at all.”

Want Law Citizens Elements Impact Criminals Affected Requirements Abiding Firearms Baltimore Law Abiding Citizen

Author:Gregory Kane

“The important element is the way in which all things are connected. Every thought and action sends shivers of energy into the world around us, which affects all creation. Perceiving the world as a web of connectedness helps us to overcome the feelings of separation that hold us back and cloud our vision. This connection with all life increases our sense of responsability for every move, every attitude, allowing us to see clearly that each soul does indeed make a difference to the whole.”

“Winnowing is more like a trip to the confessional...transparent & vulnerable without being sentimental. These songs have elements that are more like prayers & pleas for faith. They're questionings and wrangling in the dark about the journey.”

Song Dark Prayer Journey Elements Vulnerable Questioning Sentimental Transparent Wrangling

Author:Bill Mallonee

“One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.”

Humans Shows Loss Study Greater Keys Behavior Elements Gains Enjoyment Academic Human Behavior

Author:Laurence D. Fink

“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are the six elements of a Sacred Harp alto: rage, darkness, motherhood, earth, malice, and sex. Once you feel it, you can always do it. You know where to go for it, though it will cost you.”

Source: The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

“Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, theres a certain element of an eye for an eye. Theres the saying, 'Be careful what you wish for, you might get it'. When you wish for revenge, and you think you've gotten it, what happens then? Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.”

Thinking Feelings Might Happens Eye Action Certain Culture Wish Known Drama Elements Careful Revenge Be Careful American Culture Good Actions Eye For An Eye Careful What You Wish For

Author:Niels Arden Oplev

“I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are not musical, for instance.”

Want I Can Might Able Greater Risk Elements Musical Sake Video Instance Ingredients Minimalist

Author:Jonathan Glazer

“Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religious sanction for it.”

Belief Religious Reader Elements Picks Guides Zero Sanctions Cherries

Author:Jeffrey Tayler

“Education cannot be neutral. It is either positive or negative; either it enriches or it impoverishes; either it enables a person to grow or it lessens, even corrupts him. The mission of schools is to develop a sense of truth, of what is good and beautiful. And this occurs through a rich path made up of many ingredients. This is why there are so many subjects - because development is the results of different elements that act together and stimulate intelligence, knowledge, the emotions, the body, and so on.”

Persons Made Different Body School Together Beautiful Grows Results Emotion Path Rich Subjects Development Elements Negative Missions Ingredients

Author:Pope Francis

“Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in my element.”

Ifs Nice Involved Elements Computer Terror Childlike Slayer Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Author:Rupert Giles

“Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.”

Elements Attraction Our Society Irresistible

Author:J. Edgar Hoover

“The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.”

Love Life Inspirational Giving Race Consciousness Greater Exercise Activity Essentials Elements And Love Affection Appropriate Blessedness Power And Love

Book:Receiving and Giving: A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered at Williamstown , Ms. August 15, 1852. Published by Request of the Class

Source: Receiving and Giving: A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered at Williamstown , Ms. August 15, 1852. Published by Request of the Class

“There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material. People”

People Mean Use Film Language Strong Written Materials Elements Interviews Controlled Very Strong Spontaneous Documentaries

Author:Errol Morris

“You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim that a photograph is a picture of a horse or a cow, but it is the sentence that expresses the claim, which is true or false, not the photograph.”

Elements Claims Horse Photograph Sentences Being True Cows Caption True Or False

Author:Errol Morris

“My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.”

Art Film Elements Genre Art Films

Author:Mary Harron

“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”

Art Artist Imagination Design Amount Essentials Elements Invention My Imagination Fine Arts Skillful Famous Artist Aquariums Art Education Art And Artists Fine Artists

Book:Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981

Source: Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981

“The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.”

Want Age Middle Achieve Dangerous Return Elements Islam Radical Purity Islamic Middle Ages

Author:Brent Scowcroft

“Hard work, courage and commitment - these are the key elements for success.”

Hard Hard Work Keys Elements Commitment

Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.”

Vision Elements Inevitable Genocide Disturbing Replacements Intrusion

Author:Edward Hopper

“The key element of success is a product that matches all of what you've done in your message and your marketing, and all the emotion that has to be transmitted to the consumer through the product.”

Done Emotion Products Keys Elements Messages Marketing Consumers

Author:Ricardo Guadalupe

“I think when you embrace celibacy other elements of the relationship have to come forth. There isn't an opportunity for you to be blinded by your sexual desires there is an opportunity to see things more clearly.”

Thinking Desire Opportunity Elements Embrace Blinded Celibacy Sexual Desire

Author:Edwina Findley

“An element I love about the blues is jamming with other musicians.”

Elements Musician

Author:Gary Hoey

“You never know when you're taking a job, ever... but you try to take good scripts. That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available. Even then, it's not [really] in your control. Certainly not in film and TV, because there are so many other elements. You just have to take control of your own performance.”

Knows Trying Jobs Film Actors Can Do Tvs Elements Performances Scripts Available Best Things Take Control

Author:Damian Lewis

“The Ironman World Championship is the hardest race I've competed in. Not only do the elements (heat, wind, humidity) make it grueling, but the quality of the field makes it a true test.”

World Race Quality Fields Wind Elements Tests Hardest Heat Championship Humidity Ironman

Author:Timothy O'Donnell

“But the biggest challenge overall was narrowing down the complex narrative elements into a clean and straightforward story while maintaining a sense of the cultural context that makes the film special.”

Stories Film Challenges Special Elements Clean Complexes Narrative Maintaining Straightforward

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“There is a certain point of unity within the self, and between the self and its world, certain complicity and magnetic mating, a certain harmony, that conscious mind and will cannot direct. Perhaps analysis and the separate mastery of each element are required before the instincts are ready to assume command, but only at first. Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.”

Source: The Joy of Sports: End Zones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the American Spirit

“I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.”

People Way Made Justice Cities Divine Sorrow Elements Eternal Ultimate Sacred Moved Raised Intellect Abandon Architect Woe Omnipotence Forsaken

Book:The inferno

Source: The inferno