“Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.” ChristianJesusSinDealsOriginalsCompassionateDoing GoodIncarnationTrinityOriginal Sin Author:Karen Armstrong
“The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes and has carried art away from the stream of tradition. Tradition is our heritage of knowledge and experience. We can't get along without it.” YearsArtDonePastIndividualDealsProduceTraditionOriginalsFakeStreamsHeritageEmphasisCropsEccentricKnowledge And ExperienceIndividual Work Author:John French Sloan
“Many strange-looking people obviously dress according to deep convictions that are not shared by on-lookers - they clearly do not know how they actually look, but are satisfied with what their clothes make them feel and believe about their looks. These people may be the true originals, even though they are certainly not the best appreciated. The famous messages of dress, the well-known language of clothes, is very often not doing any communicating at all; a good deal of it is a form of private muttering.” PeopleKnowsFeelsBelieveWellsLooksMayFormLanguageDealsKnownKnow HowStrangeMessagesClothesOriginalsDressesCommunicateConvictionSatisfiedWell KnownAppreciatedMuttering Book:Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress Source: Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress
“I always took a great deal of pride in being original.” DealsPrideOriginalsOriginalityBeing Original Author:Roger Miller
“One of the reasons so many nonfiction books are so boring is because what they've done, very diligently, is fulfill the terms of their proposals. They've written up their proposal, long-form, and often what this does is then set up a sort of serial deal, where the whole book can essentially be reduced back to the size of the original proposal!” LongDoeBookReasonDoneWholeFormTermDealsWrittenOriginalsSizeBoringNonfictionProposalSerialsSo Boring Author:Geoff Dyer
“I don't have any [specific] intelligence about a Vice-Disney deal, but I do know that everybody's nervous about these emerging players, who can come in and have enough attractive, original content to take market share.” KnowsEnoughDealsPlayerShareOriginalsVicesNervousAttractiveEmerging Author:Maria Bartiromo
“When I look back at my paintings, they don't give me a sense of where I was when I first met that guy. They don't give me a sense of what I felt like when I first saw that original source material. They give me a sense of the world that I'm trying to create. And we all just have to deal with that.” WorldGivingTryingFirstsLooksGuyFeltDealsSawsPaintingMaterialsSourceMetsGive MeOriginalsThat Guy Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.” IfsGivingMayChildrenProblemYoungDealsSolutionsOriginalsCome UpRoutesYoung Children Author:Edward de Bono
“What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.” PeopleIfsWorldMindHas BeensDreamYoungDealsAdviceMetsOffersOriginalsNotionAriseVainFirmAssumptionInstructionDepressingVagueOur DreamsHuntsDissatisfactionDeceptiveDeludedTimely Book:101 Facts of life Source: 101 Facts of life
“My experience indicates that most people who've accumulated a great deal of wealth haven't had that as their goal at all. Wealth is only a by-product, not the original motivation.” PeopleMotivationalMotivationPassionGoalWealthMoneyDealsHavensProductsOriginalsInvestmentAccumulating Wealth Author:Michael Milken
“Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.” WantKindWantedEnjoyBornDealsDoubtOriginalsCinemaNovelistsFilmmakerOur TimeWho We AreOur Relationship Author:Francis Ford Coppola