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“If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.”

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Author:Paul Gauguin

“I had always made pictures as I thought I saw the world, focusing on what lay in front, but this is not how one sees the world. It only frames the centre and cuts off the lateral vision, which lies unfocused. Now I found that I could turn my eye to the adjacent field of vision, seeing another focus, an extension which I added to the original. Instead of stopping at two focuses, I looked further to the side, adding another and yet another.”

World Made Two Eye Lying Turns Found Sides Vision Saws Focus Cutting Seeing Fronts Fields Originals Lays Centre Extensions Stopping

Author:Joseph Plaskett

“Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office distractions eat an average 2.1 hours a day. Another study, published in October 2005, found that employees spent an average of 11 minutes on a project before being distracted. After an interruption it takes them 25 minutes to return to the original task, if they do at all.”

Ifs Today Found Hours Technology Study Minutes Return Office Projects Tasks Originals Average Heavy Productivity Employee Distraction Distracted October Tolls Interruptions

Author:David Rock

“The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know... the man is guilty who violates one of the original laws which dominate the society and which are mostly derived from a divine founder; the boy who is accepted into the tribal community and learns its laws, which bind him thenceforth, learns to promise; this promise is often given under the sign of death, which is symbolically carried out on the boy, with a symbolical rebirth.”

Knows Men Form Law Found Given Community Boys Divine He Man Promise Concepts Originals Guilt Accepted Guilty Most Powerful Primitive Founders Rebirth

Author:Martin Buber

“For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal. The "Magician of Riga" rose to become champion in 1960 at age twenty-three and became famous for his aggressive, volatile play.”

World Way Looks Play Inspiration Age Three Found Player Twenties Originals Rose Champion Opponents Shock Aggressive Consistently Magician 1960s World Champions

Author:Garry Kasparov

“My original goal in the '90s, after I found feminism and I was the first generation in my family to go to college, was to spread this information that feminism was still very much alive, and that you can't believe the media telling you that it doesn't need to exist and that it doesn't exist.”

Needs Firsts Believe Stills Found Goal Alive Generations Feminism Media Information College My Family Originals Spread

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. ... But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own... He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.”

“Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.”

Found Sin Theory Civilization Originals Tables Gas Steam Original Sin

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.”

Values Found Literature Religious Special Originals Scripture Artistic Chinese Indian Prose Sublime Monument Hebrew Persian Religious Values Special Beauty

Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“We all grew up in that era. I'm a little younger than these guys [Will Forte and John Solomon], but I would say all of us are huge fans of the original "MacGyver" series, and obviously we found that inspiration for the original pitch for MacGruber. We took his name and made it stupid. In terms of the inspiration for the movie, that really came from our love for late '80s/early '90s action movies - the whole "Lethal Weapon" series and "Rambo" and "Die Hard," every single [Arnold] Schwarzenegger and [Sylvester] Stallone film.”

“I think there's great value to the Associated Press and to Reuters, but if you wanted to generate original content, maybe written by local writers, it just takes a little bit of openness to open your pages up to a wider freelance writer pool, and then you might find new voices and a wider array of voices, and definitely more original content that can't be found anywhere else.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Might Wanted Values Found Bits Voice Written Little Bit Pages Originals Presses Locals Openness Pool Great Value

Author:Dave Eggers

“There are a lot of barbecue sauces. But I've been using Head Country barbecue sauce for 20 to 25 years, which is manufactured in Ponca City, Oklahoma. It's just awesome and has tremendous flavor. Many professional cooks use it and it can be found at Kroger and Walmart stores around the country. I use the Original, which has a white label and is a classic. But there's also a hickory flavor, called Hickory Smoke and one that has a little heat.”

Years Littles Country Use Found White Cities Originals Stores Smoke Labels Cooks Heat Classic Flavor Sauce Barbecue Oklahoma Walmart Barbecue Sauce

Author:Johnny Trigg

“I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.”

Writing Play Wanted Found Voice Theater Originals Playwright

Author:Atom Egoyan

“The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures.. are found upon comparison to be really part of the original law of nature. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these.”

Should Humans Two Law Found Divine Depends Holy Originals Foundation Scripture Doctrine Revelations Comparison Laws Of Nature Holy Scriptures Divine Law

Book:The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I: Of the Rights of Persons

Source: The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I: Of the Rights of Persons

“[Liv Corfixen] very much part of my life in that she's everything in my life and we found a way to use each other much more on a creative level as well. She was kind of the idea for this movie so I wanted to acknowledge that. She gave me the original idea to make the film.”

Way Wells Kind Ideas Use Wanted Film Found Levels Creative Originals Acknowledge Original Ideas

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.”

Wells Stories Might Found Novel Originals March Short Story Expansion Runners Kites

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“I could easily go through all my books and mark the ones that were original, mark the ones that were adapted or pre-published that I've found. I'm guessing though that probably 75% of them are personal events. I just love a personal story.”

Book Stories Found Events Mark Originals Adapted Guessing Personal Stories

Author:Max Lucado

“Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at one of the leading British universities. I asked him,what was the official language of the Byzantine Empire? He said, maybe sometime in the sixth or the seventh century.The Justinian Codex, the rule of law in the Byzantine Empire which was produced by Emperor Justinian, it was written in Latin.And he looked at me ,he knew that I knew already that the only original copy was found in the beginning of the sixteenth century.”

Said Law Found Language Written Groups Subjects Century Originals University British Officials Empires Spokes Copies Latin Professors Emperor Rule Of Law Byzantine Justinian

Author:Garry Kasparov

“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.”

Found Study Teacher Teaching Lessons Ordinary Originals Management Excellence Profound Insight Retirement Mediocrity Exemplary

Book:Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

Source: Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”

“Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write the book you have been trying to find but have not found. But write. And remember, there are no rules for our profession. Ignore rules. Ignore what I say here if it doesn't help you. Do it your own way. Every writer knows fear and discouragement. Just write.The world is crying for new writing. It is crying for fresh and original voices and new characters and new stories. If you won't write the classics of tomorrow, well, we will not have any.”

Ifs Knows World Way Writing Trying Wells Has Beens Book Character Helping Stories Pain Remember Found Voice Pleasure Cry Tomorrow Originals Profession Discouragement

Author:Anne Rice

“It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to temper his cup with the salt of doubt so that his thirst now becomes insatiable though he drinks incessantly, and that in thus drinking the water that cannot slake his thirst, he has forgotten the original and true purpose for which the water was sought.”

Firsts Purpose Found Water Doubt Drink Originals Drinking Forgotten Cups Temper Salt Thirst Sincerely Traveller Thirsty Insatiable Incessantly True Purpose

Author:Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

“When all the faces have been rejected and emptiness is left, you have found the original face. Emptiness is the original face. Zero is the ultimate experience. Nothingness - or more accurately NO-THINGNESS - is your original face.”

Has Beens Faces Found Left Ultimate Originals Emptiness Zero Rejected Nothingness

Author:Rajneesh

“Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but the laws have later been found to apply over much wider ranges of observations and much more accurately than the original data justified.”

Law Science Found Originals Observation Data Range Justified Selected Scientific Method

Author:Richard Hamming

“Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through movement and countermovement, sings and speaks simultaneously.”

Art Made Found Speak Movement Originals Dance Unity Original Art

Author:Gerard van der Leeuw

“Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love of perfumes fills the head with dizziness. Love of flavors ruins the taste. Desires unsettle the heart until the original nature runs amok. These five are enemies of true life. Yet these are what men of discernment claim to live for. They are not what I live for. If this is life, then pigeons in a cage have found happiness!”

Ifs Men Heart Eye Running Desire Found Loses Enemy Five Failing Color Taste Ears Claims Harmony Originals Hearing Ruins Cages Flavor Perfume Discernment Pigeons True Life Found Happiness

Author:Zhuangzi

“Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one of his quietly amazing lines-'you ask the silence to invert itself / like a gymnast in the dark . . . ' Without a trace of rhetoric, In This House reminds us of the power of poetry: to show us how to live in a world in which we are strangers. It's a thrill to come close to such an original and deeply realized art.”

Ifs World Way Art Moments Shows Might Asks Found House Speak Language Lines Dark Silence Originals Stranger Rhetoric Thrill Elusive Gymnast Without A Trace Invert

Author:Dennis Nurkse

“The President is no more than a well-meaning baboon. I went to the White House directly after tea, where I found "The Original Gorilla", about as intelligent as ever. What a specimen to be at the head of our affairs now.”

Wells War Government Found House President White Politician Intelligent Originals Affair Tea Civil War White House Presidency Gorillas Baboons

Author:George B. McClellan

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