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“So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that some of the most sagacious of men, as Cardinal Mazarin and Rothschild, seem to have been inclined to regard luck as the first element of worldly success; experience, sagacity, energy, and enterprise as nothing, if linked to an unlucky star.”

Source: Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

“In the editing process, I delete what I do not want to use, move what remains around if necessary and add elements that I feel will make my visual statement as clear and understandable as possible.”

Ifs Want Feels Use Moving Process Clear Elements Remains Add Statements Visuals Editing

Author:Gerald Brommer

“I don't worry much about whether or not one of my stories contains elements of the supernatural. If I come up with what I think is a nifty concept, I'll give it a whirl.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Stories Worry Elements Concepts Come Up

Author:Richard Laymon

“Inevitably I came to associate any wine I met with a specific place and a particular slant of history. I learned to perceive more than could be deduced from an analysis of the physical elements in the glass. For me, an important part of the pleasure of wine is its reflection of the total environment that produced it. If I find in a wine no hint of where it was grown, no mark of the summer when the fruit ripened, and no indication of the usages common among those who made it, I am frustrated and disappointed. Because that is what a good, honest wine should offer.”

Source: A Vineyard in My Glass

“Which was first, Matter or Force? If we think on this question, we shall find that we are unable to conceive of matter without force, or force without matter. When God created the elements of which the earth is composed, He created certain wondrous forces, which are set free and become evident when matter acts on matter.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Matter Earth Certain Force Elements Evident Wondrous

Book:A course of six lectures on the various forces of Matter, and their relations to each other ... Edited by W. Crookes. With numerous illustrations

Source: A course of six lectures on the various forces of Matter, and their relations to each other ... Edited by W. Crookes. With numerous illustrations

“The combination of the Liberal and Labour Parties is much stronger than the Liberal Party would be if there were no third Party in existence. Many men who would in that case have voted for us voted on this occasion as the Labour Party told them i.e. for the Liberals. The Labour Party has "come to stay"...the existence of the third Party deprives us of the full benefits of the 'swing of the pendulum', introduces a new element into politics and confronts us with a new difficulty.”

Ifs Men Would Be Party Existence Cases Elements Benefits Thirds Difficulty Stronger Occasions Combination Labour Swings Introducing Labour Party Pendulums Third Parties Liberal Party

Author:Austen Chamberlain

“History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.”

Ifs Whole Facts Values Knowledge Conditions Goodness Degrees Elements Foundation Historical Valuable Posse Historical Facts

Book:Contemplation and Action, 1902-14

Source: Contemplation and Action, 1902-14

“A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is studied as something religious. To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it - the element of the sacred.”

Ifs Trying Mean Art Religious Levels Study Psychology Missing Elements Unique Economics Essence Sacred Phenomenon Sociology Linguistics Physiology

Author:Mircea Eliade

“The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it.”

Ifs World Humans Care Bits Levels Internet Conversation Elements Pages Mediums Persistence

Author:David Weinberger

“Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.”

Ifs Felt Growth Education Stage Elements Unity Organisms Deficiency Defective

Book:Essays on the Higher Education

Source: Essays on the Higher Education

“If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we no longer have that choice: the televisual has become an intrinsic and determining element of our cultural formation.”

Ifs Choices Numbers Information Television Expression Elements Vehicle Formation Ranking Conveying

Book:Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture

Source: Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture

“Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.”

Ifs Artist Worst Elements Stones Abandoned Splits Explosions Firing Debris

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“I realize that this is not what you want to put on a cover with Wonder Woman emblazoned on it. She could be in trouble, but she doesn't need to be completely out of control. So whenever I'm doing these covers, I try to make sure that there's an element where, even if there is danger, it's not something where agency is taken away from her.”

Ifs Want Needs Trying Book Realizing Wonder Taken Trouble Danger Elements What You Want Comic Agency Comic Book Wonder Woman

Author:Cliff Chiang

“Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had somehow leaped to show me fleetingly the life and spirit of his element.”

Ifs Shows Beautiful Spirit Felt Water Sea Elements Rivers Privilege Fishes Boat Granted Lakes Fishing Show Me Marvellous Inscrutable

Author:Zane Grey

“If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that the second has more of a miraculous element, we may reasonably conclude we have legendary (or midrashic or whatever) embellishment. The tale has grown in the telling. This sort of comparison is common in extrabiblical research and no one holds that it cannot properly indicate legend formation there.”

Source: Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity

“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.”

Ifs Needs Giving Mean Stills Ideas Sound Space Quality Records Elements Instruments Connected Techno

Author:Pantha du Prince

“I like to be as diverse as possible. I think the humorous side and the serious side are both elements of my personality. It's what makes me who I am and if I was to neglect either one of those sides and just focus on one of them, it wouldn't be the full spectrum of my personality.”

Ifs Thinking Sides Focus Serious Personality Elements Humorous Who I Am Neglect Diverse Spectrum

Author:Macklemore

“Horror is great storytelling with scary elements on top of it, but if you don't have great storytelling, you can have all the scares in the world, but the movie won't work.”

Ifs World Horror Elements Scary Storytelling Scare

Author:Jason Blum

“If the question is still asked why National Socialism combats the Jewish element in Germany so fanatically, the answer can only be, because National Socialism wishes to establish a real community of the people. Since we are National Socialists, we cannot permit an alien race to impose itself upon our working people as their leaders.”

People Ifs Stills Real Wish Community Answers Race Leader Elements Socialism Aliens Germany Permit Combat

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it. When you accidentally place your finger in a flame, it is supposed to hurt just long enough for you to pull it out. If you think there is value in keeping it there, you will be a crispy critter. Pain is a minor element of life, unless you are indulging it. Then it becomes suffering. Get the message and then get on with your life, which is far more about joy than sorrow.”

Ifs Thinking Long Enough Use Happens Pain Joy Suffering Values Hurt Sorrow Elements Messages Fingers Flames Minors Optional Critters Elements Of Life

Author:Alan Cohen

“There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear is lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating... Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.”

Ifs Men May Children Persons Dream Hate Liberty Plans Elements Consequence Cease Income Noise Vanity Privacy Popularity Our Dreams Dividends Lurking No Hate

Author:Cyril Connolly

“Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.”

Ifs Wells Important Pieces Amount Elements Notes Meaningful Rhythm Artistic Organized

Author:Anthony Davis

“If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.”

Ifs Men Religion Religious Elements Relation Ruins Miserable Doomed

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot element if it's about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it's about John Keats.”

Ifs Important Character School Novel Elements Distinction Plot Gossip Graduates Speculation Scholarship Graduate School Syphilis

Book:Second words: selected critical prose

Source: Second words: selected critical prose

“Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.”

Ifs Whole Literature Fiction Elements Subversive

Author:Fay Weldon

“If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup.”

Ifs Important Food Essentials Elements Cooking Culinary Soup French Cooking

Author:Louis Diat

“Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.”

Ifs Together Film Actors Fun Sound Acting Failing Risk Succeed Elements Exciting Cameras Painter Upset Sound And Music Film Directing

Author:George Clooney

“Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure, then it's over. There's great satisfaction in tending something, feeling it needs you, even if it's just a plant on your windowsill.”

Ifs Needs Feelings Perfect Pleasure Elements Plant Metaphor Satisfaction Peaceful Gardening Need You

Author:Jane Kaczmarek

“I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages. If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even read it. I don't care how good the dialog is - it's a moving picture. It has to move all the time... It's not the stage. A movie audience doesn't have the patience to sit and learn a lesson. Their eyes need to be dazzled. The writer is the most important element in the entire film because if it ain't on the page it ain't going to be on the screen.”

Ifs Needs I Can Important Eye Care Film Moving Audience Stage Lessons Elements Pages Picks Don't Care Screens I Don't Care Flip Screenplays Learning Lessons

Author:Robert Evans

“The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's characters, but often for the society itself. That's why I'm drawn to stories that are built around wars, even if they're not technically "war stories."”

Ifs War Character Stories Lasts Courses Drama Elements Survival Built Life And Death Stakes War Stories

Author:Steven Pressfield

“The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting.”

“I took little interest in fleshly infants; it being my private opinion that their attractions did not justify the fuss that was made about them. I had, for instance, early discovered that, if you gave a baby a finger to hold, it held it. This was perhaps interesting, but it wanted greatly in the dear element of surprise.”

Ifs Littles Made Wanted Interest Interesting Opinion Baby Elements Surprise Fingers Dear Attraction Instance Justify Infant Element Of Surprise

Book:The Singing Gold

Source: The Singing Gold

“Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.”

Ifs Nations Elements Civilisation Peas Uncouth Peas In A Pod

Book:Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins

Source: Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins

“The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, than lack of caution. Both should be avoided. Life will always contain an element of chance. Not to win is not a sin. But not to try is a tragedy.”

Ifs Should Trying Persons Winning Left Chance Sin Risk Elements Tragedy Finished Caution Avoided

Book:The power of money dynamics

Source: The power of money dynamics

“Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and of the quarter to which they are exposed, and secondly on the use of pure water; this latter point is by no means a secondary consideration. For the elements which we use the most and oftenest for the support of the body contribute most to health, and among those are water and air. Wherefore, in all wise states, if there is want of pure water, and the supply is not all equally good, the drinking water ought to be separated from that which is used for other purposes.”

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest steppingstones to success. No other element can do so much for a man if he is willing to study them and make capital out of them. Look backward. Can't you see where your failures have helped you?”

Ifs Men Looks Two Can Do Study Willing Elements Discouragement

Author:Dale Carnegie

“Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better future. It is to cut oneself off from ways of being at home. If we regard self-understanding, mutual understanding, imaginative enhancement, cultural diversity and a tolerant political atmosphereas a desirable attainments, we should remember that a knowledge of the Irish language is an essential element in their realisation.”

“What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.”

Ifs Men Character Faces Heaven Chance Habit Taste Elements

Book:HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS

Source: HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS

“I enjoy the research element. There are so many stories from the past that interest me, that I want to learn more about, just as an interested person. And if I'm going to learn, if I'm going to research, it's probably going to lead me to writing a novel.”

Ifs Want Writing Persons Stories Past Enjoy Interest Novel Elements Research Leading Me

Author:John Boyne

“If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.”

Ifs Two Lying Force Struggle Elements Solutions

Author:Benito Mussolini

“If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it's important to bear in mind that you not only have to love what you do; you should also enjoy the culture and the tribes that go with it.”

Ifs Should Mind Important Culture Enjoy Bears Elements Considering Earning Tribes

Author:Ken Robinson

“The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as this world, from gravity to how human behaviour works. If you have a fantasy element that doesnt obey the laws of physics, make sure that it has a fantasy explanation.”

Ifs World Want Feels Firsts Humans Mean Real Law Fantasy This World Building Elements Available Physics Explanation Gravity Behaviour Laws Of Physics Human Behaviour

Author:Trudi Canavan

“If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.”

Ifs Reason Found Study Buddhism Elements Inherent Flexibility

Author:B. R. Ambedkar

“Your mind, in order to defend itself starts to give life to inanimate objects. When that happens it solves the problem of stimulus and response because literally if you're by yourself you lose the element of stimulus and response. Somebody asks a question, you give a response. So, when you lose the stimulus and response, what I connected to is that you actually create all the stimulus and response.”

Ifs Giving Mind Problem Happens Order Asks Loses Objects Elements Response Connected Solve Stimulus Inanimate Objects Stimulus And Response

Author:Willi Smith

“I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.”

Ifs Thinking Helping Found Realizing Christianity Practice Teaching Buddhism Elements Method Islam Buddhist Concrete Judaism

Author:Nhat Hanh

“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others,thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”

Ifs May Whole Purpose Culture Three Asks Belief Lines Moral Shapes Elements Strings Solitary Configuration

Book:The Culture We Deserve

Source: The Culture We Deserve

“Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.”

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Hearing, seeing and understanding each other, humanity from one end of the earth to the other now lives simultaneously, omnipresent like a god thanks to its own creative ability. And, thanks to its victory over space and time, it would now be splendidly united for all time, if it were not confused again and again by that fatal delusion which causes humankind to keep on destroying this grandiose unity and to destroy itself with the same resources which gave it power over the elements.”

“It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony. This opinion has found expression in the distinction between culture and civilization, according to which "culture" refers to some higher dimension of human autonomy and fulfillment, while "civilization" designates the realm of necessity, of socially necessary work and behavior, where man is not really himself and in his own element but is subject to heteronomy, to external conditions and needs.”

“Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the introduction. Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development. Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the resolution.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Character Novel Mystery Development Elements Majors Thirds Finals Driven Genre Theme Plot Resolve Resolution Introducing Introduction Main Characters

Author:Michael Moorcock