“If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars!” IfsWantWritingArtMillionsProducePaintingMaterialsRaisesDollarsPursueMy TimeSculptureMillion DollarsMotion Pictures Author:Orson Welles
“A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator.” HeartProduceRaisesMereWarmConceptionSpectatorsCopiers Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait
“The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'etre is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug.” PeopleThinkingFactsGovernmentRolesIssuesProduceIntellectualRaisesForgottenCorporationsDogmaEmbarrassingOrthodoxyRaison D'etreEmbarrassing Questions Author:Edward Said
“I had never read in public, never given an interview. I was doing it all and trying to produce the next book and raise three young kids and had another child on the way.” WayTryingChildrenBookKidsYoungThreeNextGivenProduceRaisesInterviews Author:Nick Bantock
“A conscious parent is not one who seeks to fix her child or seek to produce or create the 'perfect' child. This is not about perfection. The conscious parent understands that is journey has been undertaken, this child has been called forth to 'raise the parent' itself. To show the parent where the parent has yet to grow. This is why we call our children into our lives.” ChildrenHas BeensShowsGrowsParentPerfectOur LivesJourneyProduceConsciousPerfectionOur ChildrenRaisesPerfect Child Author:Shefali Tsabary
“Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.” PeopleMindSoulStatesReasonUseUsedEnjoyEmotionTroubleDangerProduceHeroTerribleQuietOrdinaryBraveryRaisesCalmAccidentsPreservesMidstDisorderInwardFearlessnessStrength Of MindPresence Of Mind Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“A company's success no longer depends primarily on its ability to raise investment capital. Success depends on the ability of its people to learn together and produce new ideas.” PeopleIdeasTogetherAbilityCompanyProduceDependsRaisesInvestmentNew Ideas Author:Arie de Geus
“I do think it's getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable. The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world's putting out at you.” ThinkingWorldTryingIdeasCountryKidsStuffEffortAttitudeCreativityProduceRaisesValuable Author:Adrian Tomine