“When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff. But when a book comes out, it's just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.” WantBookSometimesHardStuffOpinionFiguresCriticsInternalsGet OverCritiqueClassmates Author:Veronica Roth
“I am not only convinced that what I say is false, but also that what one might say against it is false. Despite this, one must begin to talk about it. In such a case the truth lies not in the middle, but rather all around, like a sack, which, with each new opinion one stuffs into it, changes its form, and becomes more and more firm.” MightFormLyingStuffOpinionCasesMiddleConvincedDespiteFirm Author:Robert Musil
“Show people your stuff, listen carefully to their responses, but ultimately don't value anyone's opinion above your own. Be influenced by writers you dislike as well as writers you like. Read their stuff to figure out what's wrong. Find a balance between the confidence that allows you continue, and the self-critical facility that enables you to improve. Get the balance wrong on either side, and you're screwed.” PeopleWritingWellsSelfShowsValuesStuffSidesOpinionFiguresBalanceResponseCriticalDislikeFacility Author:Alex Garland
“We want stuff done right. As long as it's my team, I'll voice my opinion. Yep, it's my team. You media guys might give it to him, like you've given him everything else his whole lifetime, but this is the Diesel's ship. And if we're not right, I'm going to go out there and try to get it right... Just ask Karl and Garywhy they wanted to come here. It was because of one person, not two. One.” IfsWantGivingTryingPersonsLongTwoDoneWholeMightWantedGuyAsksGivenStuffVoiceOpinionTeamMediaLike YouBasketballLifetimeWhole LifeShipsDieselLakers Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“If something was bugging you, you talk about it. But that's the cool thing: we [My Chemical Romance] don't bug each other. We just have deep discussions about art and music like friends. And we disagree about stuff but the disagreements are so healthy and intelligently thought out. We're very respectful of each other's opinions, especially about music.” IfsArtRomanceStuffOpinionHealthyDiscussionChemicalsDisagreeBugsRespectfulDisagreementCool ThingsArt And MusicBugging You Author:Gerard Way
“If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.” IfsWritingStrongStuffOpinionMiddleSceneResearchDialogueRisingMetalsTowers Author:Jimmy Breslin
“In the end, the whole Internet thing kills me, because you can use it as a positive thing or you can read into all the negativity. And I think youve gotta put out positive energy, put out cool viral stuff, and then just stay out of peoples opinions.” ThinkingEndsWholeUseEnergyStuffOpinionInternetNegativityKill MePositive EnergyPositive ThingsViral Author:Nikki Sixx
“When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it.” PeopleLooksHateStuffDifferencesOpinionCreatingSittingDown AndShellsSitting DownFiascoDifferences Of Opinion Author:Lupe Fiasco
“I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.” ThinkingNeedsKindSchoolGuyStuffHalfOpinionLaughingMinutesInformationTenPercentHigh SchoolAccessBarsDumbIdiotMake SenseLoudRealisingDumb GuyInformed Opinions Author:Bill Burr
“At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.” StuffLevelsOpinionCouplePolaroids Author:Jim Henson
“Highly intelligent and well-informed people disagree on every political issue. Therefore, intelligence and knowledge are useless for making decisions, because if any of that stuff helped, then all the smart people would have the same opinions. So use your "gut instinct" to make voting choices. That is exactly like being clueless, but with the added advantage that you'll feel as if your random vote preserved democracy.” PeopleIfsFeelsWellsUsePoliticalChoicesStuffDecisionOpinionDemocracyIssuesSmartAdvantageVoteIntelligentInstinctUselessGutsVotingDisagreeSmart PeopleMaking DecisionsCluelessPolitical IssuesGut InstinctHighly Intelligent Author:Scott Adams
“Magazines and opinions of you and stuff like that, those will change, but your opinion of yourself does not have to based on what other people say. So I just learned that my inner voice has to be louder than their outside voice.” PeopleDoeStuffVoiceOpinionMagazinesInner Voice Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt
“I think I'm good with actors. I like directing actors. I also like to show up and just do an acting gig. Where I'm just a hired gun, I don't have to have an opinion on anything.I never got involved in all this stuff because I wanted to control stuff; I got involved in writing and producing because I wasn't getting interesting acting gigs. In a way I'm grateful that I didn't get interesting roles, because it made me pull my finger out and do some work.” ThinkingWayWritingMadeShowsWantedActorsStuffInterestingActingOpinionRolesInvolvedGunGratefulFingersGigsDirecting Actors Author:Steve Coogan
“Don't talk to me about appealing to the public. I am done with the public, for the present anyway. The public reads the headlines and that is all. The story itself is fair and shows the facts. That would be all right if the public read the facts. But it does not. It reads the headlines and listens to the demagogues and that's the stuff public opinion is made of.” IfsDoeMadeDoneFactsStoriesShowsWould BeStuffOpinionFairsPublic OpinionHeadlinesTalk To MeDon't Talk To Me Author:J. P. Morgan