“To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.” WorldDoneCharacterChristianPurposeIntegrityElementsMarkChristian InspirationalAdverse Author:Vance Havner
“What a wonderful work Wagner has done for humanity in translating the toil of life into the readable script of music! For those who seek the tale of other worlds his magic is silent; but earth-travail under his wand becomes instinct with rhythmic song to an accompaniment of the elements, and the blare and crash of the bottomless pit itself.” WorldDoneEarthSongHumanityWonderfulMagicElementsSilentInstinctScriptsTalesTranslateCrashToilPitsOther WorldsWandsWagner Author:Richard Wagner
“It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.” KindImportantDoneAdventureElementsSeatsPants Author:Nick Cave
“I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.” DoneFeelingsPovertyInvolvedElementsBasesCommunismInevitable Author:Rebecca West
“I live to the rhythm of my country and I cannot remain on the sidelines. I want to be here. I want to be part of it. I want to be a witness. I want to walk arm in arm with it. I want to hear it more and more, to cradle it, to carry it like a medal on my chest. Activism is a constant element in my life, even though afterwards I anguish over not having written 'my own things.' Testimonial literature provides evidence of events that people would like to hide, denounces and therefore is political and part of a country in which everything remains to be done and documented.” PeopleWantCountryDonePoliticalLiteratureMy OwnWalksWrittenEventsArmsElementsEvidenceRemainsConstantActivismRhythmWitnessChestsAnguishMedalCradleSidelinesTestimonial Author:Elena Poniatowska
“Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.” DoneFilmHellColorElementsGatesGates Of Hell Author:Norman McLaren
“There's nothing else exactly like it in any other art form, the orchestration of so many different elements. It's endlessly fascinating what can be done editorially. You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there was none. Two frames can be the difference between something that works and something that doesn't. It's fascinating.” ArtTwoDifferentDoneFeelingsFormDifferencesElementsNarrativeFascinatingOrchestration Author:Steven Soderbergh
“It is not done to let anybody be too happy. The moment two people seem to be enjoying one another's company, a good hostess introduces a third element or removes the first.” PeopleFirstsTwoDoneMomentsSeemsEnjoyCompanyElementsThirdsRemoveIntroducingHostesses Author:Virginia Graham
“No one in his right mind would walk into the cockpit of an airplane and try to fly it, or into an operating theater and open a belly. And yet they think nothing of managing their retirement assets. I've done all three, and I'm here to tell you that managing money is, in its most critical elements even more demanding than the first two.” ThinkingTryingMindFirstsTwoDoneThreeWalksElementsTheaterInvestingCriticalRetirementAssetsAirplaneBellyCockpit Author:William J. Bernstein
“The standard "foundation" for mathematics starts with sets and their elements. It is possible to start differently, by axiomatising not elements of sets but functions between sets. This can be done by using the language of categories and universal constructions.” DoneLanguageElementsStandardsUniversalFunctionMathematicsFoundationCategoriesConstruction Book:Mathematics, form and function Source: Mathematics, form and function
“I don't know why, but there's a certain element of panic in writing lyrics that I'm not sure I enjoy. I don't write lyrics first, ever. I've never done that. So, in a sense, the lyrics are a bit of an afterthought - it's music first.” KnowsWritingFirstsDoneCertainBitsEnjoyElementsNot SurePanicAfterthought Author:Mike Patton
“There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. "I've pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can't I'm just fed up with that. Let's do something else."And you always think "Oh my God I've never done anything at all like that before." But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they'll say, "Oh, yeah that's typical Eno.” ThinkingWellsKindI CanDoneCoursesBecomingPeriodsElementsYeahEdgesFamiliarBoredFedsOutsidersTypicalRetrospectFed Up Author:Brian Eno
“I've done films about games. What I like with games is that there is this uncertain outcome and the element of chance.” DoneFilmGamesChanceElementsOutcomesUncertain Author:Jørgen Leth
“Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature” WellsReasonDoneBeliefSinChristianityDoubtLandElementsMiracleCastsCirclesSupposed To BeImpulseSwimSwimmingGlancesAmbiguousPurpose And Meaning Book:Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“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.” ThinkingWritingFirstsIdeasDoneStoriesFilmElementsConsciousExtremesVersionsTeenagerPlasticConnectingSurgeonsSimilarityPlastic Surgeons Author:Lucia Puenzo
“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.” DoneEmotionProductsKeysElementsMessagesMarketingConsumers Author:Ricardo Guadalupe
“Inspiration is a divine element inside our life. When we are inspired, we try to climb up the Himalayas. When we are inspired, we try to swim the English Channel. When we are in spired, we go from one country to another country to inspire people and to be inspired by them. I feel that when we inspire humanity, we automatically become good citizens of the world. This is my philosophy. My weightlifting feats I have done solely to inspire humanity.” PeopleWorldFeelsTryingCountryDonePhilosophyInspirationHumanityOur LivesInspireDivineCitizensElementsInspiredClimbsSwimFeatsBe InspiredGood CitizenHimalayasWeightlifting Author:Sri Chinmoy
“Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in it. And very, very accurate. I think there was some element that thought she had pushed it too far. But not at all when you do the amount of homework she had done and spent the amount of time she did with adult autistics. She was right on the money. And I think Marc Evans is a terrific director. He's a sweet, open, honest man and a really good director of actors.” ThinkingMenDoneFilmActorsHonestSweetAmountProudDirectorsElementsShotsAdultsLovelySnowCakeAccurateTerrificHomeworkHonest ManGood Directors Author:Alan Rickman
“Element of surprise is really fun for me in comedy. I have to be surprised, and everything's been done.” DoneFunComedyElementsSurpriseElement Of Surprise Author:Zach Galifianakis
“Greece is not a country that can be humiliated. It is a matter of finding an intersection between the reasonable elements of both sides [EU and Greece] which has to be done.” CountryMatterDoneSidesElementsFindingsReasonableBoth SidesGreeceHumiliatedIntersections Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“I'm kinda just looking to do things that have never been done, but still have that skratcher b-boy element included. Very interesting experiments happen and it's not always a good thing, but learning from doing it - all the beautiful mistakes - and accidentally coming up with something I love is the real fun!” StillsRealDoneHappensBeautifulFunLove IsInterestingMistakeBoysElementsGood ThingsExperimentsVery Interesting Author:DJ QBert
“I probably wouldn't have done [ Fred Leuchter story] if it was just a story about an executioner or a holocaust denier, but the combination of the two elements was irresistible. So yeah, I find it strange that there are so many people out there now.” PeopleIfsTwoDoneStoriesStrangeElementsYeahCombinationHolocaustIrresistibleExecutionersHolocaust Deniers Author:Errol Morris
“When I use the word 'healing', by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.” ThinkingMeanDoneUseJobsSpiritualHealingBrokenTerribleDiseaseElementsMedicineVery GoodLegsViolationSkisWhy Me Author:Abraham Verghese
“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.” Has BeensArtDoneLiteratureFearCommonModernElementsArt IsDreadSymptomsImmatureImmaturityModern Art Author:Edith Wharton
“Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.” ShouldMayHardDoneGovernmentAgeBehindsDoorsAchieveSubjectsDemandElementsWorking ItDiplomacyBureaucratsClosed DoorsBehind Closed Doors Author:Evgeny Morozov
“It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.” PeopleIfsWritingHardReasonDoneSeemsFilmMovingHateTerribleEasierElementsCriticismObviousArguingRidiculousFlawsLike SomethingParodyCerebralThings You Like Author:Chuck Klosterman
“When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.” LoveSaidTwoDoneElementsAnd LoveWeatherSaid And Done Author:Alice Hoffman
“In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!” DoneJobsGamesFunTeacherElementsSnapsChildren's LiteratureChildren BookChildren LiteratureWriting Children's Books Author:Julie Andrews