Best elements & play Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.”

Should Mind Children Doe Play Body Form Teaching Exercise Lessons Elements Slavery Harm Your Children Compulsion Epistemology Pedagogy

Author:Plato

“1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are related to each other. This spacing is the simultaneously active and passive (the a of différance indicates this indecision as concerns activity and passivity, that which cannot be governed by or distributed between the terms of this opposition) production of the intervals without which the "full" terms would not signify, would not function.”

Mean Play Term Differences Activity Elements Concern Function Productions Active Related Opposition Passive Systematic Intervals Indecision Passivity Spacing

Author:Jacques Derrida

“Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.”

Play Character Fun Elements Who I Am Playing Yourself

Author:Octavia Spencer

“Its the details and the human element that makes Recount entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. Its also funny.”

Knows Humans Ends Play Know How Elements Election Details Entertaining Thrillers

Author:Kevin Spacey

“In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.”

Play Character Hate Actors Elements

Author:Janet Montgomery

“Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to “SNL” was his “Best Of” VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements, and engage with the audience.”

People Firsts Long Play Shows Guy Watches Audience Elements Long Time Exposure Murphy Snl

Author:Taran Killam

“I'm normally late, so I just kind of throw on the sort of thing that's at hand. And then I'll go through phases of wearing the same thing again and again and again. My wardrobe is mainly about black and white, so it goes together. I'll play with certain elements, but it's - I don't really think too much about it.”

Thinking Kind Play Hands Together Certain Black White Too Much Elements Late Black And White Phases Again And Again Wardrobe

Author:Daphne Guinness

“To make a great movie is such a combination of different things that need to come into play to actually make a memorable film and not have a film to fall by the wayside, to have something live on during the years, and one of those elements is the commitment the actors have to their performance.”

Needs Years Different Play Film Fall Actors Elements Commitment Performances Combination Memorable Different Things

Author:Edward Zwick

“Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.”

People Knows World Wells Hard Play Ability Know How Talent Hard Work Elements Labor Leisure Introducing Constructive Playfulness

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“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

“. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.”

Play Pain Black Elements Stress Constant Folks Oppression Tension Exploitation

Book:Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

Source: Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

“Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.”

Knows Play Games Numbers Football Involved Elements Soccer Rugby Football Game

Author:Nick Saban

“Drue [Langlois] and I started making music together before we started the Art Lodge, so I guess musical collaboration came first. The music we made, and our performances, always had a visual component. I could never play an instrument, so these other elements compensated for that a little.”

Firsts Littles Art Made Play Together Elements Performances Instruments Musical Visuals Collaboration Components Lodges

Author:Michael Dumontier

“I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the right elements - witches, kings and assassinations.”

Play Students Kings Elements Witch Nigeria Assassination

Author:Sefi Atta

“At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.”

Different Play Love Is Risk Keys Elements Musician Romantic Backgrounds Hopeless Romantic Love

Author:John McLaughlin

“I could sing and play as well. I've got some brothers; one of them is the drummer in the band. They're good musicians. I play for fun. They play properly. Music in general, I grew up in a house of musicians. Everybody's life has a soundtrack, I'm sitting here talking to you but there are horns beeping outside. I know I'm in New York. That's an element in the film as well. How strong that sense can be.”

Knows Wells Play Film House Strong Fun Talking New York Brother Grew Band Elements Grew Up Musician Sitting Horns Drummer Soundtracks

Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers

“Most movies don't have the ability to find an audience. So the movie plays out very quickly in a lot of theaters to get the biggest gross. So that demands that we make things that are hits before they open. So they have to have the elements, they have to be franchises.”

Play Ability Audience Demand Elements Theater Gross

Author:Laura Ziskin

“All that we know about the interaction between leaders and constituents or followers tells us that communication and influence flow in both directions; and in that two-way communication, nonrational, nonverbal, and unconscious elements play their part.”

Knows Way Two Play Leader Influence Communication Elements Flow Unconscious Followers Interaction Two Ways Constituents Nonverbal

Book:Leadership: An Overview

Source: Leadership: An Overview

“No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.”

Humans War Play Chance Activity Elements Luck Bounds Human Activity Guesswork

Book:On War

Source: On War

“Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.”

Play America Games Sex Essentials Elements Definitions Defined Maleness

Author:Margaret Mead

“I love helicopters. In fact, my wife and my friends, the myth of the chopper in the sky is that Len's going to stop and look at it. I love, probably, destroying them, yes. You know, It's the big elements, the big toys, the trucks the helicopters, and things like that. You have a few tools to play with.”

Knows Looks Play Facts Bigs Wife Sky Elements My Friends Tools My Wife Myth Destroying Toys Truck Helicopters Choppers

Author:Len Wiseman

“If I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative aspect to the film, and if you don't do that, the film goes off balance where you can't worry about likability, you have to come in and play the part the best way that you can.”

Ifs Way Play Film Worry Pieces Balance Elements Negative Aspect Stronger Add Best Way Villain

Author:Alec Baldwin

“We have to focus on his early work, and just one or two of his movies, and elements of his TV shows, to keep his memory pure. People now know that Elvis could play a mean rhythm guitar himself, and needed no other musicians to perform a great song. But Elvis was not just a rock star, he was an all-round entertainer.”

People Knows Mean Two Play Shows Song Stars Memories Focus Rocks Tvs Needed Pure Elements Musician Guitar Rounds Rhythm Just One Tv Shows Rock Star Entertainers Early Work

Author:Pete Townshend

“Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.”

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“It's one thing to write the music, it's another thing to write it down, it's another thing to play it, and something else altogether again to learn how to play it. These are the elements that are fascinating, and, you know, move my world.”

Knows World Writing Play Moving One Thing Elements Fascinating

Author:Gail Zappa

“I'm a huge Luc Besson fan. The Fifth Element, I just loved that movie. Luc cast me to play a small part in it, and so I did, because I love all his movies actually - The Big Blue, La Femme Nikita, Léon: The Professional. His movies are so wonderful. It's just fun to be in it and for it to be a sci-fi movie.”

Play Bigs Fun Wonderful Fans Huge Elements Blue Casts Sci Fi Fifth Small Parts Femme Sci Fi Movie Fifth Element

Author:Ethan Hawke

“I think if you're doing a play, you're rehearsing enough that you get to a point where it's freeing again. But in a movie, if you rehearse too much, now you've just shown everybody what you're going to do. And any element of surprise or impulsiveness is taken away.”

Ifs Thinking Enough Play Taken Too Much Elements Surprise Rehearsing Element Of Surprise

Author:Geena Davis

“The good thing about playing this style that we play, you know, the progressive element of it, is that we can add in different elements of different styles. And that creates a more interesting overall sound.”

Knows Different Play Sound Interesting Style Elements Add Good Things Progressive Different Styles

Author:John Petrucci

“Femininity, yes, effectively there is more in The First Man, not only in terms of women but stylistically, in its elements, the notes he wrote. You can see a real love story in it, a childhood love story, [Albert] Camus' first. Meursault [protagonist of The Outsider] and Marie were never up to much really. There is Dora in The Just and others in his plays, but they aren't so well known.”

Men Firsts Wells Real Play Stories Term Known Childhood Elements Notes Love Story Real Love Outsiders Well Known Femininity Protagonists Marie

Author:Catherine Camus

“There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.”

May I Can Play America Courses Chance Tree Elements Hopefully Sand Australia Links Scotland Belts Golfers Backyards

Author:Tiger Woods

“We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to extinguish himself in God or Nirvana—analogous perhaps to the tendency among artists to obliterate themselves with alcohol or opiates. But if we value our participation in a shared reality in which it makes sense to make sense, then such self-abnegation would deny a central element of our humanity: the need to speak and act, to share our experience with others.”

Ifs Needs Self Play Reality Would Be Artist Values Humanity Choices Speak Share Elements Deny Alcohol Tendencies Mysterious Make Sense Participation Mystic Opiates Abnegation Free Play

Author:Stephen Batchelor

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