Best elements & ideas Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.”

Ifs Needs Ideas Hard Hard Work Elements Deserve Luck Critical Great Idea

Author:Ian Rankin

“Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.”

People Knows Wells Kind Ideas Shows Attention Elements South Mockery Bubba Rural Life

Author:Bubba Sparxxx

“I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.”

Ideas Law Interest Elements Prison Criminals Touched Criminality Criminal Law

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.”

Ideas Different Character Stuff Environment Inspire Elements Different Things Throwing Wrong Ideas

Author:John Lasseter

“There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence-an overwhelming determination to succeed.”

Way Writing Kind Has Beens Ideas Different Found Common Successful Succeed Elements Determination Method Persistence Overwhelming Different Kinds Determination To Succeed

Book:For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

Source: For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

“What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements.”

Men Way I Can Ideas Different Use Next Vision Objects Color Painting Elements Shadow Casts My Way Originality Fuse

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman.”

Art Ideas Form Beauty Expression Materials Elements Understood Art Is Feminine Feminine Beauty Women Beauty

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour, texture and formal relations; and if we strive to organize these elements, it is not with the idea of increasing the knowledge of the mind, but rather in order to intensify the pleasure of the senses.”

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit in us toward a higher world; a world in which all ideas, thoughts, and forms are pure and beautiful and completely clear, the world Plato held to be perfect and eternal. All works that have in them an element of joy are records of this adventure.”

People World Art Ideas Beautiful Form Joy Spirit Perfect Results Creative Clear Records Adventure Higher Pure Elements Eternal Art Is Plato Joyous Creative Spirit

Author:Lawren Harris

“Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the subject are beyond the limits of your pigments, try to form an idea beforehand of how you are going to handle those areas when you get to them.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Form Certain Impossible Magic Subjects Limits Elements Areas Paint Handle Pigment

Author:Richard Schmid

“For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.”

Ideas Relationship Design Elements Technique Printing Graphic Design Triangles Typography

Author:Wolfgang Weingart

“Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become a master of two worlds, say, engineering and business, you can bring them together in a way that will a) introduce hot ideas to each other, so they can have idea sex and make idea babies that no one has seen before and b) create a competitive advantage because you can move between worlds, speak both languages, connect the tribes, mash the elements to spark fresh creative insight until you wake up with the epiphany that changes your life.”

“An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But one must avoid the prejudice that regards the religions of primitive peoples as pure fear religions and those of the civilized races as pure moral religions. All are mixed forms, though the moral element predominates in the higher levels of social life. Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of the idea of God.”

Source: Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms

“When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.”

People Has Beens Ideas Facts Speak Existence Conditions Elements Pace Dissolution Old Ideas

Book:Karl Marx: Selected Writings

Source: Karl Marx: Selected Writings

“We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in merely making that distinction between religion and its doctrine-elements, have we not already relegated the latter to an external and subordinate position? Have we not asserted that "religion itself" has some other essence or constitution than mere idea or thought?”

Ideas Care Religious Position Theory Elements Essence Constitution Mere Driven Doctrine Distinction Latter Subordinates

Author:William Ernest Hocking

“A home life where it's so full of so many rigorous ideas about the way things should be, this word "should," I think is absolutely toxic to children. It hurts their personalities, it hurts their points of view in the world, it hurts their ability to be open and caring and curious. An element of allowance in a family, is, I think, really a positive thing.”

Thinking World Way Should Children Ideas Home Hurt Ability Views Personality Elements Caring Point Of View Curious Toxic Should I It Hurts Allowance Positive Things Home Life

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“The challenge in any musical is unifying all the moving parts of it, in particular a movie musical because now you're adding the camera and you're adding the idea of adaptation. So the challenge is to stay as true as you can to the material that you love and yet not be afraid to step outside of it and introduce elements into it that make it exist in a satisfying, exciting way cinematically.”

Way Ideas Moving Challenges Steps Particular Materials Elements Exciting Cameras Musical Satisfying Introducing Adaptation Unifying Moving Parts

Author:Marc E. Platt

“The first thing I ever thought of when I thought of Buffy , the movie, was the little...blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed, in every horror movie. The idea of Buffy was to subvert that idea, that image, and create someone who was a hero where she had always been a victim. That element of surprise ... genre-busting is very much at the heart of both the movie and the series.”

Firsts Heart Littles Ideas Girl Dark Hero Horror Elements Victim Series Surprise Genre Blonde Alleys Element Of Surprise Busting Dark Alleys Blonde Girl

Author:Joss Whedon

“Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted. By this notion of 'interpretation' I mean that everything of which we are conscious, as enjoyed, perceived, willed, or thought, shall have the character of a particular instance of the general scheme.”

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Author:Charles Hartshorne

“When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because it was realistic to maintain such principles and odd and dangerous to deviate from them, or because these maxims were more in harmony with their supposedly free tastes than others. They held to such ideas because they saw in them elements of truth, because they connected them with the idea of logos, whether in the form of God or of a transcendental mind, or even of nature as an eternal principle.”

“The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.”

Men Ideas Born Atheism Elements Conception Rude Insignificant Transcendent Jehovah

Author:Herman Melville

“If you work with so many classical instruments... I mean, it still has this power, and it's still connected to the idea of techno. But it has its own quality, its own sound. It's in between, even more than the record before. You need to give every instrument, sound, and element the space it needs.”

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Author:Pantha du Prince

“My idea of marriage, as of every other partnership, ... is that each member shall contribute to it his or her personality, unrepressed and uncoerced. Thus, and only thus, we obtain the most complex synthesis possible, which may well surpass in beauty, as it surely does in interest and human value, the separate elements of such an association.”

Humans Wells May Doe Ideas Values Interest Marriage Personality Members Elements Complexes Association Partnership Human Values Synthesis

Book:Inheritance

Source: Inheritance

“The Lake of Dreams grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.”

Years Ideas Enough Dream Novel Grew Elements Mass Critical Lakes Critical Mass

Author:Kim Edwards

“Mental hospitals are great for horror movies because they're already scary even without the horror or supernatural elements. This is a place where you can play with the ideas of one's sanity, what's real and what's not.”

Ideas Real Play Horror Elements Scary Hospitals Sanity Supernatural Elements

Author:Michael Rasmussen

“I generally enjoy the rehearsal process because that's where you can share your ideas, get your thoughts and feelings out and see whether or not they're going to land, whether or not people are going to agree with them, particularly the director. So you can sort out in that process any elements that need to be sorted out before you're on the set, and of course that saves time and it also makes everyone more comfortable working together.”

People Needs Ideas Feelings Together Courses Process Enjoy Share Land Directors Elements Comfortable Agree Working Together Rehearsal Thoughts And Feelings

Author:Nicolas Cage

“True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.”

Life Inspirational Made Ideas Self Change Awareness Elements Caught Separation Entity True Self Interconnected

Author:Nhat Hanh

“In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.”

Mean Ideas Order Adventure Civilization Elements Curiosity Merit Civilized Imperfection Transformed Recognizing Unrest

Book:Adventures of Ideas

Source: Adventures of Ideas

“It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The idea of luck is a powerful way of illustrating the importance of our basic attitudes in affecting whether or not we find our Element.”

Way Ideas Happens Motivational Differences Powerful Attitude Our Lives Circumstances Elements Importance Luck Illustrating

Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Three elements go to make up an idea. The first is its intrinsic quality as a feeling. The second is the energy with which it affects other ideas, an energy which is infinite in the here-and-nowness of immediate sensation, finite and relative in the recency of the past. The third element is the tendency of an idea to bring along other ideas with it.”

Firsts Ideas Feelings Past Three Energy Quality Elements Thirds Infinite Tendencies Sensations Categories Relative Finite

Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“I was very sad to leave Harry Potter but equally there will be an element of excitement about the idea that a script might come in and I don't have to go: "I'm sorry, I'm kind of busy for the next four years." The idea of that is quite exciting.”

Years Kind Ideas Might Next Four Elements Exciting Sorry Busy Scripts Excitement Four Years Harry Potter I'm Sorry Potters Very Sad

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we in Jamaica were talking about black art. And the idea that there is a role for art in the civil rights revolution and in the successor to the civil rights revolution.”

Art Ideas Black Talking Roles Rights Identity Revolution Elements Productions Resistance Civil Rights Aggressive Affirmation Refusal Assertion Successors Jamaica Black Art

Author:Mark McMorris

“Graphic design was largely about communication in an artistic or creative manner, much like writing is used to convey ideas. Many designers completely miss that aspect of the "art." Some are completely satisfied with just making things pretty, without taking the communication element into consideration.”

Writing Art Ideas Used Creative Missing Design Communication Elements Aspect Satisfied Artistic Designer Consideration Graphic Graphic Design

Author:Jeff Fisher

“Now let us regard the idea of God from the magic standpoint, according to the four elements, the so-called tetragrammaton, the unspeakable, the supreme: the fiery principle involves the almightiness and the omnipotence, the airy principle owns the wisdom, purity and clarity, from which aspect proceeds the universal lawfulness. Love and eternal life are attributed to the watery principle, and omnipresence, immortality and consequently eternity belong to the earth principle. These four aspects together represent the supreme Godhead.”

“We love those beautiful, Latin American stories where there is an element that's more mysterious and wonderful. I think as a child a lot of us love the idea of the star and more of the supernatural elements.”

Thinking Children Ideas Stories Beautiful Stars Wonderful Elements Mysterious Latin Latin America Latin American Supernatural Elements

Author:Catherine Hardwicke

“When I'm trying to imagine something, I have a few elements, a few ideas, maybe a certain actor or actress I want to create a certain type of character for, or maybe a certain place.”

Want Trying Ideas Character Certain Actors Imagine Type Elements Actresses

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“It's three disparate elements: the stop sign, the stage paintings, and the skeleton paintings. Those are three sharp ideas, although none of them are necessarily good ideas. Tons of artists have made whole careers out of those three ideas.”

Made Ideas Whole Artist Three Careers Stage Painting Elements Good Ideas Skeletons

Author:Josh Smith

“Even before I wrote any songs, I had this idea of a triangle where the voice was at the top, some sort of guitar element on one side, and then some sort of really basic rhythm on the other side. That's where I started from in the recording process.”

Ideas Song Process Sides Voice Elements Guitar Rhythm Triangles

Author:Panda Bear

“From a creative standpoint, I'm interested not only in the idea of helping couples and women, but challenging myself creatively, and doing each one better than the last thing I did. I think by doing that, by adding a visual element to these films, it really makes a huge difference.”

Thinking Ideas Helping Lasts Film Challenges Differences Creative Huge Couple Elements Visuals Standpoint Challenging Myself

Author:Sasha Grey

“And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so much. I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. I find that most of the time, when people write about one of my books, they're really just writing about what they think I may or may not represent, as sort of this abstract entity. Is that unfair? Not really. If I put myself in this position where I'm going to kind of weave elements of memoir into almost everything, well, I suppose that's going to happen.”

“When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to talk about were the ideas in the movie, the theme of it, and contextual elements that weren't necessarily central to the story. But the only thing people really wanted was a plot description and how many stars I'd give it. It didn't matter how much effort you put into writing a piece, they looked at it solely as a consumer's guide toward going or not going to films.”

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Author:Chuck Klosterman

“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

“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

“There are two kinds of filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the film is complete in the director's mind) and Coppola's (which thrives on process). For Hitchcock, any variation from the complete internal idea is seen as a defect. The perfection already exists. Coppola's approach is to harvest the random elements that the process throws up, things that were not in his mind when he began.”

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Author:Walter Murch

“My roots are very closely tied to the DNA of the brand. Growing up in Serbia where women are unapologetically very feminine, I came to London and realised that I wanted to keep this feminine element but give it a twist and challenge ideas of classical beauty.”

Giving Ideas Wanted Challenges Growing Up Growing Elements Roots London Brands Feminine Tied Dna Twists Realised Serbia

Author:Roksanda Ilincic

“I do think there is a completely different notion to glamour today. I think modern glamour is more effortless, easy, and real. Moreover, I think it's about constantly challenging classical ideas by bringing in unexpected and different elements; for example a long, elegant evening skirt paired with a simple t-shirt on the red carpet. I think this approach is the future.”

“If I had 10 ideas and people said yes to all of them, half of them could be crap. But, if I've got 10 ideas and we really only have the budget for one of them, then we have to pick the best one that is our most creative element.”

People Ifs Said Ideas Half Creative Elements Picks Budgets Crap

Author:Thomas Ian Nicholas

“Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity, and when you're photographing children there's often an abundance of it. I would have an idea of what a photograph would look like and then something would happen - a dog might lumber in and become a critical element. I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.”

Looks Children Ideas Might Happens Chance Dog Depends Praying Elements Angel Photographer Photograph Critical Abundance I Pray Serendipity Lumber

Author:Sally Mann

“It was part of a financial situation. I could only afford records in thrift stores. Then you could find wonderful things, but now everything is a collectible. I like the recycling idea --using the stuff that people don't want anymore, and make new music out of it. There was an element of looking back and listening to your parents' records and doing something with that stuff. Sort of acknowledging the past while rejecting it at the same time.”

People Want Ideas Past Stuff Parent Situation Records Wonderful Listening Elements Financial Stores Looking Back Wonderful Things Rejecting Recycling Thrift New Music Collectibles

Author:Christian Marclay

“My craziest ideas come from cartoons. I approach music by taking that cartoon extreme and the real life extreme and finding somewhere in the middle. The animated element lures people in, but the real-life substance puts the nail in the coffin.”

People Ideas Real Middle Elements Findings Approach Extremes Real Life Substance Nails Cartoon Animated Coffins Lure Craziest

Author:Busta Rhymes

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