“Liberal gardeners are people who feel that, through gardening, we can alleviate our sense of alienation from nature; and that, through good gardening, we can repair some of the damage we have done to our environment. The most extreme liberals believe that there is an original or a natural state in which the environment would be if we hadn't shown up on the scene, and that we have not only the ability but also a moral imperative to help nature return to this state.” PeopleIfsFeelsBelieveArtStatesDoneHelpingWould BeNaturalAbilityMoralEnvironmentDesignReturnSceneOriginalsExtremesDamageGardeningAlienationImperativesOur EnvironmentGardenerAlleviate Author:Deborah Needleman
“At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its infancy; examine everything relative to the development of talents; be original; form a style for yourselves based on your private studies; if you must copy, imitate nature, it is a noble model and never misleads those who follow it.” IfsArtFormStudyTalentStyleDevelopmentModelsTheaterOriginalsNobleCopiesRoutineRelativeBalletMisleadInfancyRenounce Author:Jean-Georges Noverre
“I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's always been drums first and foremost. I don't reckon on this Jack-of-all-trades thing. I thing that felling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts.” IfsKnowsFirstsWellsImportantDonePlayBitsSoundOriginalsInstrumentsTradeGuitarTechniqueObsessedAcousticsAcoustic GuitarBeing OriginalJack Of All Trades Author:John Bonham
“Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.” IfsThinkingMadePhilosophyProveAchievementBenefitsOriginalsDoctrineConceptionDisputesRefutation Author:Galileo Galilei
“If the original Facebook was the first five minutes [of a conversation] and the stream was the next 15, what I want to show you today is the rest-the next few hours of a deep engaging conversation.” IfsWantFirstsShowsTodayNextHoursFiveMinutesConversationOriginalsStreamsEngagingFive Minutes Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey” IfsFirstsPlayWantedUsedGamesKingsOriginalsTonightHockeyNicholson Author:Rob Zombie
“My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.” IfsHas BeensIndividualVirtueOriginalsMusicalChiefsDevicesImitationDefectsLifelongDetestIdiom Author:Sergei Prokofiev
“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.” IfsWorldWayArtMomentsShowsMightAsksFoundHouseSpeakLanguageLinesDarkSilenceOriginalsStrangerRhetoricThrillElusiveGymnastWithout A TraceInvert Author:Dennis Nurkse
“I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.” IfsKnowsWayIdealsOriginalsSellingInventingDoing You Author:Peter Weir
“I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.” IfsThinkingLittlesRealizingHoursSimpleOriginalsFixedRoutineSalarySimple Life Book:Boy: Tales of Childhood Source: Boy: Tales of Childhood
“. . . it is interesting to note that the original problem that started my research is still outstanding - namely the problem of planning or scheduling dynamically over time, particularly planning dynamically under uncertainty. If such a problem could be successfully solved it could eventually through better planning contribute to the well-being and stability of the world.” IfsWorldWellsArtStillsProblemTimeInterestingResearchOriginalsNotesPlanningWell BeingUncertaintyStabilityOutstandingScheduling Author:George Dantzig