Best elements & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 3

“Sometimes you think, "Oh man, this is going to be a fantastic movie," and then when you see it put together, you're like, "Oh, huh. Well, that didn't turn out quite the way I thought." Sometimes you think you're part of a project and it isn't that great, and then it sort of becomes a pleasant surprise. But I think there's just too many elements that affect the tone of a movie, so I think even for a director, it may be hard to gauge that.”

Thinking Men Way Wells May Sometimes Hard Together Turns Directors Elements Projects Surprise Fantastic Tone Pleasant Gauges Pleasant Surprises

Author:Anna Faris

“Just concentrate on the performers. Make sure you get the performers, and that's it. That's all we need to do." And I was thinking, "Well what if you do both? Of course the performance is important, the writing is really important. But what if you could have the perfect marriage of making it look really slick as well?" I think that's kind of what I tried to develop as a style, and Spaced was the first TV show I did where all the elements came together.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Writing Firsts Wells Looks Kind Important Shows Together Courses Perfect Style Tvs Elements Performances What If Performers Tv Shows Slick Perfect Marriage

Author:Edgar Wright

“I think that clothes should be a shelter like a house or a rug. I think that there is that element of protection and a uniform can be just that.”

Thinking Should House Elements Clothes Protection Shelter Uniforms

Author:Sonia Rykiel

“There has been a constant struggle on the part of the military element to keep the end- fighting, or readiness to fight-superior to mere administrative considerations. The military man, having to do the fighting, considers that the chief necessity; the administrator equally naturally tends to think the smooth running of the machine the most admirable quality.”

Source: Mahan on Naval Warfare: Selections from the Writing of Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan

“An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.”

Thinking Heaven Greater Sea Objects Elements Resistance Desert Proportion Pyramids

Book:The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

Source: The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

“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.”

“Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.”

Thinking Art Difficult Elements Art Is Difficult Things

Author:Kingsley Amis

“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

“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

“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

“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 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

“For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Principles Conditions Elements Primaries Analysis Simplest

Book:Physics

Source: Physics

“Teenagers are passionate and they want music that speaks within their hearts. It's a big deal for students to listen to Christian music and talk about it at school. Music is a very exciting element of your life when you're love. I think it's huge.”

Thinking Want Heart Bigs School Christian Speak Deals Students Huge Elements Music Is Exciting Passionate Teenager Big Deal Christian Music

Author:Mark Hall

“I think there's an element to this business that writers especially are overlooked in many ways and this made everybody kind of look at us differently. I do think that an interesting thing happened during it, which was being on these picket lines and looking at the huge amount of executives coming and going that you realize don't really add much to the equation.”

Thinking Way Looks Kind Made Realizing Lines Interesting Happened Huge Amount Elements Add Things Happen Executives Equations Interesting Things Overlooked

Author:Edward Allen Bernero

“I think that nobody - certainly in this world - can say that they don't have the human denial element about them or fear or whatever it is as juxtaposed with faith and hope and freedom and love.”

Thinking World Humans This World Elements And Love Denial Hope And Faith Love And Freedom

Author:Juan Pablo Di Pace

“The more we do this, the more the audio-drama format is opening up to us in new ways. So I think there's an experimental element, or at least an confidence in experimenting, that's running though our work now - and it wasn't there in the first season.”

Thinking Way Firsts Running Drama Elements Seasons Opening New Ways Format Opening Up Audio

Author:Glenn McQuaid

“Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one.”

Thinking Important Found My Own Wife Elements My Wife Sense Of Humor Delicious Adequate

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Linking financial element to energy consumption I think has a huge role if you think about a display instrument that could teach us about what we are using, how much it costs us, how much it is saving, and therefore change our decisions.”

Ifs Thinking Energy Decision Roles Teach Huge Cost Elements Instruments Financial Saving Display Consumption Energy Consumption

Author:Dan Ariely

“I think there's an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D'Artagnan. In the very beginning, she's using him in a pretty cynical way. When she gets to know him, she sees qualities in him that she recognizes and it's almost like trying to remake the past, but of course, it doesn't work.”

Thinking Knows Way Trying Past Courses Quality Elements Innocence Cynical Remakes

Author:Adrian Hodges

“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.”

“In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them to their elements. Understanding proceeds from the whole to its parts, not from the parts to the whole as knowledge does.”

Thinking Doe Whole Understanding Elements Understood Increase Expanding Reducing Systems Thinking

Author:Russell L. Ackoff

“Life a life of Spiritual Adventure. Much like a wild goose the Spirit of God cannot be tracked or tamed. An element of danger, an air of unpredictability surround Him. And while the name may sound a little sacrilegious, I cannot think of a better description of what it's like to pursue the Spirit's leading through life.”

Source: Wild Goose Chase: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God

“I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . .”

People Thinking Known Elements Landscape Portraits

Author:Ari Marcopoulos

“Well, I think tone is very important with this show [Masters of Sex] because there are certain elements or certain aspects to the show that may be reminiscent of other shows. But, it really is a very new kind of show, in terms of the subject matter and the way it's being dealt with, and the fact that it's about real people and real events.”

People Thinking Way Wells Kind May Important Real Matter Facts Shows Certain Sex Term Subjects Events Masters Elements Aspect Tone Subject Matter

Author:Michael Sheen

“I think ultimately it's just time management. You're just doing a lot more stuff. You're doing the same stuff, you're writing and you're producing, but it just comes with a lot of other things. A lot of long term thinking and plotting things out for the future, bringing elements together. I have a lot of support.”

Thinking Writing Long Together Stuff Term Support Elements Management Long Term Time Management

Author:Scott M. Gimple

“I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements.”

Thinking Trying Wells Two Rocks Elements Music Is Conservative Bridges Opera Rock And Roll Rock And Roll Music

Author:Klaus Nomi

“I loved The Sarah Connor Chronicles that Josh did, and I loved that it was a family drama with a huge, different element. And this is also a family drama with a huge, very different element. I think he'll kill it. It will be great.”

Thinking Different Huge Drama Elements Family Drama Chronicles Josh

Author:John August

“As you can imagine when you have to summon a force like that together, the opposing elements are pretty freaking gnarly. I would think of those pioneer movies where they've got the cook and the ladies loading the guns and firing at the surrounded wagons. I don't put Coulson in that category, I think he is on the upper tier of people who come to scrap at situations like that but everybody's involved.”

People Thinking Together Force Situation Imagine Involved Elements Gun Cooks Categories Pioneers Opposing Scrap Firing Wagons Gnarly

Author:Clark Gregg

“Speaking as Coulson, it's unclear. I feel like that are other formidable S.H.I.E.L.D. elements and they don't have Coulson's connection to some of these people. I think what I like about what seems to be going on is there are differing opinions about who's where on the hierarchy and I think that's some of what goes on in the movie.”

People Thinking Feels Seems Opinion Goes On Elements Connections Hierarchy Formidable Unclear

Author:Clark Gregg

“Do not think I do not realise what I am doing. I am making a composition using the following elements: the winter beach; the winter moon; the ocean; the women; the pine trees; the riders; the driftwood; the shells; the shapes of darkness and the shapes of water; and the refuse. These are all inimical to my loneliness because of their indifference to it. Out of these pieces of inimical indifference, I intend to represent the desolate smile of winter which, as you must have gathered, is the smile I wear.”

“The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.”

Thinking Way Spirit Force Principles Psychology Morality Elements Essence Instinct Revenge Metaphysics Our Thoughts Way Of Thinking Transcendental

Book:Nietzsche and Philosophy

Source: Nietzsche and Philosophy

“A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.”

People Thinking Two Elements Relation Practicals Two Things Journal Diaries Blogs Blogging

Author:Lemn Sissay

“I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be performed. I think about what it's going to be like to sing them on stage rather than what it's going to be like to have someone at home listening to them on a CD. I guess in that way there's a connection between my acting experience and the songwriting and the way the songs are written.”

Thinking Way Home Song Acting Written Stage Listening Elements Connections Performances Songwriting Cds

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“I was just burnt out. I didn't like the music business and I didn't like me. There's an element of falseness about the whole thing. Even things like doing an interview. It's not as though we just met in the pub and are having a chat - it's part of a process. If you do it all day, every day for years, you end up thinking: 'Who the hell am I?' I was lucky enough to make some money, enough to let me kick back. It was a great experience and it was nice to have a couple of No.1s but the best thing about it was that the money I made allowed me to have freedom and choice in my life.”

“Science and its practice are no longer free and willing today but instead are constantly terrorized by research funding gravy trains and group thinking. This is why science needs defending and it takes courage to cleanse science from those cancerous elements and to bring her forward in its rightful place again. I am humbled and honored by this recognition.”

Thinking Needs Today Practice Groups Willing Elements Research Train Recognition Honored Funding Gravy

Author:Willie Soon

“I think the notion of success is fairly destructive. You can see elements of this surrounding any band becoming too popular. On the other hand, survival means you are doing fine.”

Thinking Mean Hands Fine Becoming Band Elements Survival Notion Destructive

Author:Howe Gelb

“If every element of the song doesn't come within the first hour of writing, then you're never going to get it - if that makes sense. It's kind of like you need to be in a mental state where everything is so reactionary that you don't double-think anything, and so if it's not immediate then it's probably not going to happen at all, and you should probably toss the song.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Should Writing Firsts Kind States Happens Song Hours Like You Elements Make Sense Toss Reactionaries

Author:Zach Condon

“I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized or accomplished or that confidence will be revealed. I think that's another element that people like about shows: in addition to hearing the songs that they love, I think there are some people who really get off on connecting with what's happening right now.”

People Thinking Shows Song Enjoy Knowing Stage Right Now Elements Happenings Hearing Hopefully Vulnerability Accomplished Connecting Transparency

Author:Jason Mraz

“Ambient means the natural center or atmosphere of a space. All music has that in it- a space or center. I think it just means the atmosphere or what defines the environment of sound and maybe removing the more destructive, harsh elements and harder rhythmic elements and you get down to the stillness that's inherent. There's an ambient quality in every sound. You may have to enhance that to hear it or bring it out in a different way but there is that in every environmental sound.”

Thinking Way May Mean Different Sound Natural Space Quality Environment Elements Harder Environmental Atmosphere Different Ways Destructive Stillness Inherent Harsh Ambient

Author:Bill Laswell

“I personally don't think of the music as being particularly dark, though many seem to disagree as I often have to answer that question. I try and make the Lustmord sound have a real mass and a tangible presence, which some choose to interpret as dark. It's an interesting distinction. Although there are dark elements interwoven within the whole, it's only one of many textures.”

Thinking Trying Real Whole Seems Sound Dark Answers Interesting Elements Mass Distinction Disagree Texture Tangible

Author:Brian Williams

“John Berger once defined music by saying that it began as a howl, became a prayer, then a lament, and still contains the elements of all three. I think that's pretty wise. That's about the only way I know how to explain what music is.”

Thinking Knows Way Stills Three Prayer Know How Wise Elements Music Is Defined Howl Lament

Author:John K. Samson

“Your world is all these elements. Of light and sound, of taste, smell, and touch, woven together in many dimensions on the fabulous loom of your brain. Your brain; the most complicated thing in the world, which you yourself grew...without even thinking about it.”

Thinking World Light Together Sound Brain Grew Taste Elements Complicated Smell Dimensions Fabulous Woven Complicated Things

Author:Alan Watts

“I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of the song is measured. I like to diversify, that there are multiple versions of every song. And the songs incorporate a lot of improvisation, and an element of chance, and I think that's exciting. There's no one true formulation of a song, they have various manifestations depending on the space we're in. I like that.”

Thinking Kind Song Chance Space Elements Standards Performances Ultimate Exciting Various Versions Manifestation Multiple Improvisation Sacredness

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book, my thinking. In fact they are the urgent element of poetry in our time, they carry the most emotion for the most people in our culture. everyone LOVES poetry, because we all love (one form or another) of rock and roll (be it folk to emo to rap). It's all rock and roll and all lyric poetry.”

People Thinking Book Facts Form Song Culture Emotion Rocks Elements Folks Rap Our Time Poetry Is Rock And Roll One Love Urgent Love Poetry Emo Lyric Poetry Hank Williams

Author:Gregory Orr

“I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of humanness - and I wanted to explore the ways that they circle around and approach and fail to add up to love, or the ways that those three terms - sex, desire, love - can in some lights seem synonymous and in others like elements entirely alien to one another.”

Thinking Way Light Seems Wanted Desire Three Sex Term Consciousness Failing Elements Approach Add Circles Aliens Humiliation Humanness Desire Love

Author:Garth Greenwell

“I don't think I'm qualified to answer questions about happiness. But I guess I'd say that I don't think you ever get to put to bed something like a search for order, or any other element of your sensibility, however much you'd like to.”

Thinking Order Answers Bed Elements Sensibility Qualified

Author:Garth Greenwell

Elements Quotes

Related topics

Elements Quotes