“I know a famous violinist who told me he can't compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a note, an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out, one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be.” ThinkingKnowsMindKnowingPiecesNotesStartingSupposed To BeNot KnowingStarting OutViolinist Author:Natalie Portman
“The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which he is subjected, but without knowing it trains himself for new compulsions. ... Training in sports makes of the individual an efficient piece of apparatus which is henceforth unacquainted with anything but the harsh joys of exploiting his body and winning.” MeanPlayBodyJoyWinningIndividualSportsKnowingPiecesDisciplineTrainingTrainVariousEfficientHarshRelaxationCompulsion Author:Jacques Ellul
“The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.” EnoughFactsWaitingAudienceKnowingPiecesLaborMereShakesNerves Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski
“Before I started working on a computer, writing a piece would be like making something up every day, taking the material and never quite knowing where you were going to go next with the material. With a computer it was less like painting and more like sculpture, where you start with a block of something and then start shaping it.” WritingWould BeNextKnowingPiecesPaintingMaterialsComputerBlockSculptureNever Quit Author:Joan Didion
“I'm not against knowing the history of white people in the U.S. - that's not the point. The point is that there's so much greater history. We don't know about Native Americans. Very basically, we don't know that much about African American history, except that they were enslaved. You only get bits and pieces.” PeopleKnowsBitsWhiteKnowingGreaterPiecesAfrican AmericanNativeNative AmericanAmerican HistoryBits And PiecesAfrican American History Author:Luis J. Rodriguez
“Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them. That's challenging, but then the piece is pure discovery.” PeopleWritingMeanChallengesKnowingPiecesReaderPureDiscoveryArguing Author:Susan Orlean
“I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me. Sometimes a piece of hubcap fits in such a way that the shark becomes almost alive in my hands, climbing, twisting or just hanging motionless and predatory, and this gives me a buzz. It makes me feel like a vehicle for the creation process rather than a controller, and not knowing the exact outcome is exciting.” WayGivingFeelsSometimesHandsProcessInterestingKnowingPiecesAliveCreationMaterialsFitShapesExcitingGive MeOutcomesClimbingVehicleNot KnowingSharksBuzzRaw MaterialsPredatoryControllers Author:Ptolemy
“I honestly never sat down and said "OK, here's my style," because my whole thing was knowing everyone's style. Everything I've ever written has bits and pieces of everything I've ever heard. Any rapper that tells you different is a liar.” SaidDifferentWholeBitsKnowingPiecesWrittenHeardStyleDown AndHonestlySatLiarsRapperBits And Pieces Author:Bun B
“There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot forward. It's called psychological comfort. Look at a picture of the Coney Island boardwalk in 1925. Men were in full-on three-piece suits, hats. They may have only had one suit. But they pressed it. They made it look as good as possible.” MenLooksKindMayMadeDifferentThreeKnowingPiecesFeetComfortPsychologicalSuitsMade ItIslandsHatsDifferent KindsBoardwalksConey Island Author:Tom Ford
“I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.” ThinkingJobsNextActorsKnowingPiecesTelevisionVarietySteadyNot KnowingAdrenaline Author:Lauren Graham
“The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn't work.” MovingBlackBreakKnowingPiecesProgramTreatsBoxesTricksBlack Boxes Author:Bill Gates
“Tips like that. Wearing necklaces, knowing how to layer, wearing a statement piece. Don't wear big earrings and a big necklace and a big ring all at the same time. Pick your magic. I have this whole thing: if you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you look good.” IfsFeelsLooksWholeBigsKnowingPiecesMagicPicksRingsStatementsFeel GoodLayersNecklacesEarrings Author:Molly Sims
“I think one of my favorite pieces I've ever done on the show which was about Hezbollah Israel conflict in 2006 and it was very pointed. It was a beautifully crafted piece of satire and it's a weird thing to say but it had a joke in there about 9/11 and I remember the audience sort of laughing but also kind of not knowing how to respond to that joke and it was just so - and I remember the tension after we did this joke on the air and there was this palpable gasp in the audience, but they were also laughing. And I thought oh, wow, that is something that is not being said in the Zeitgeist.” ThinkingKindSaidDoneShowsRememberAudienceLaughingKnowingPiecesAirConflictJokesMy FavoriteIsraelTensionSatireWowNot KnowingWeird ThingsZeitgeistHezbollah Author:Aasif Mandvi