“It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.” SometimesSeemsAmericaConsciousnessQualityFailingApproachExperimentsJapanWillingnessVenture Author:Daniel H. Pink
“Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.” YearsMeanArtSometimesProblemSeemsArtistQualityAudienceTasteTenArtisticMomentaryFluctuationGlitches Author:Jerry Saltz
“The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.” PeopleWayBookSometimesLiteratureDealsFictionQualityTruth IsPureAssumingResponseCuriosityMediumsAffectedOutlook Author:Vance Palmer
“Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes them invaluable, and in other ways, repulsive. Lawyers are much more focused on rational, logical, and objective criteria to the exclusion of the emotional, subjective, and sometimes irrational reponses to the world. Moreover, lawyers like to show no emotion, and possess a particular disdain for the emotions that are found in others, which has the quality of making them seem inhuman.” WorldWaySometimesShowsSeemsFoundEmotionQualityVisionSeeingSpecialEmotionalParticularFocusedLawyerObjectivesRationalLogicalIrrationalSubjectiveCriteriaExclusionDisdainInhumanInvaluable Author:Thane Rosenbaum
“The theory of Reincarnation, which originated in India, has been welcomed in other countries. Without doubt, it is one of the most sensible and satisfying of all religions that mankind has conceived. This, like the others, comes from the best qualities of human nature, even if in this, as in the others, its adherents sometimes fail to carry out the principles in their lives.” IfsHumansHas BeensCountrySometimesQualityPrinciplesDoubtFailingMankindHuman NatureTheoryIndiaSatisfyingSensibleOther CountriesReincarnationIncarnation Author:Luther Burbank
“My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make some statement about the harp - somehow has ... coloured people's interpretations of the music and projected an idea of childlike or fairytale quality or innocence. Which sometimes prevents people from listening to the songs the way I would like them to be listened to.” PeopleWayIdeasSometimesUseSongVoiceQualityListeningStatementsInnocenceCombinationInterpretationFairytaleChildlikeHarps Author:Joanna Newsom
“Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue.” SometimesFacesQualityVirtueEvidenceConvictionContraryQuarters Author:Jack McDevitt
“Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.” SelfSometimesQualityFaultsScalesProportionConceitOutrageOmission Author:Jeremy Collier
“I hardly ever go to parties. If I really have to, I'll go, but I'm not the most open person, which is sometimes not the best quality.” IfsPersonsSometimesPartyQuality Author:Eva Green
“Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.” TryingPersonsSometimesQualityLeaderNiceFailingPersonalitySucceedNice PersonTrust Others Author:Simon Sinek
“there are camels which have the quality which in humans is called the revolutionary spirit, and the caravan leader fears to keep one of these in his ranks, because its instinct is always toward revolt against authority. One such camel will sometimes break up the discipline of a whole train, for, owing to the mass mentality of the herd, even peaceful beasts are suddenly infected with the spirit of revolt and in a few minutes the whole caravan is in utter disorder.” HumansSometimesWholeSpiritQualityLeaderBreakMinutesDisciplineAuthorityMassTrainInstinctPeacefulRevolutionaryBeastDisorderMentalityHerdsRevoltCamelsOwingCaravans Author:Mildred Cable
“Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.” SometimesLife IsEmotionQualityOur LivesPoetSucceedFixedSteelVocabularyQuality Of LifeLife Is LikeRendering Author:Laura Huxley
“I don't always know what's going to go on in terms of the mood of the story. Sometimes I start with the mood, but sometimes I just try to work toward discovering it. But I do think often there's a mood or unsettling quality, in which the reality of the world seems to be taken away, that I really love, and it's something that I almost always unconsciously move toward.” ThinkingKnowsWorldTryingSometimesStoriesRealitySeemsMovingTermQualityTakenGoes OnMoodDiscovering Author:Brian Evenson
“Sometimes you get lucky - you don't put much work in and you're successful anyway. But over the course of time, if you really want to shape your path, I think it's about the quality of the time you put in.” IfsThinkingWantSometimesCoursesQualityPathSuccessfulShapesLuckyLucky You Author:Blake Griffin
“Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work.” SometimesFunProcessTermQualityParticularTypePersonalityAmountDirectorsOur FamilyComposerQuality Of Life Author:Christophe Beck
“'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it's a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.” PeopleKnowsWayShouldTryingSometimesSchoolSocialForgetLove IsQualitySuccessfulTomorrowCaughtEach DayBeing SuccessfulCaught UpRemindersGetting OlderSocial LifeQuality Time Author:Anthony Hamilton
“It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.” BelieveSometimesI BelieveQualityMoralSweetFlowerPoisonous Author:Augustus Hare
“As a woman, she [Penelope Cruz] obviously has changed as she has become an adult. But, as an actress, I actually might say that she has not changed that much. And she has something great, especially in comedy, and she hasn't been exploited as much as she could be in comedy, but particularly in that mix between comedy and drama. She's got a very special quality about her. You can place her in very extreme situations, especially very painful situations, in terms of how her character interprets it. And sometimes, the deeper and more human that pain is, the better she is at it.” HumansSometimesCharacterPainTermQualitySituationComedySpecialChangedDramaAdultsPainfulDeeperExtremesActressesCruzPainful Situations Author:Pedro Almodovar
“At the happy ending of the Tempest, Prospero brings the kind back togeter with his son, and finds Miranda's true love and punishes the bad duke and frees Ariel and becomes a duke himself again. Everyone - except Caliban - is happy, and everyone is forgiven, and everyone is fine, and they all sail away on calm seas. Happy endings. That's how it is in Shakespeare. But Shakespeare was wrong. Sometimes there isn't a Prospero to make everything fine again. And sometimes the quality of mercy is strained.” KindSometimesQualitySeaSonFineMercyCalmSailForgivenHappy EndingsTempestDukesArielMirandaCalibanCalm SeasProspero Author:Gary D.
“Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.” LoveSometimesEvilQualitySlaveDustLiftsGlancesInclinationDespots Author:Sophie Swetchine
“Next, take a look at the quality of the people who surround you. Do these people back you emotionally, or not? If they don't back you, are they at least passive? If not, get rid of them. Sometimes it is hard to drop off your mates at the great bus stop of life. But remember, your energy will only rise in direct relationship to the number of things you are able to get rid of - not to the things you acquire. By getting rid of things, attitudes, encumbrances, and blocks of one kind or another, things fly.” PeopleIfsLooksKindSometimesHardAbleRememberNextEnergyFriendshipNumbersAttitudeQualityDirectBlockAcquireSurroundBusMatesPassiveBus Stops Book:The Trick to Money is Having Some Source: The Trick to Money is Having Some
“Selfish is an exploitation of others for self; selfless is an exploitation of self for others. Both are extrinsic. ..... Selfness. When selfness prevails, the qualities of others are sometimes used for self and the qualities of self are often extended to others. The basic and key difference is that exploitation is never the object of the outcome.” SelfSometimesUsedDifferencesQualityObjectsKeysSelfishOutcomesSelflessExploitation Author:Bob Samples
“There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally concealed.” WantHas BeensSometimesQualityFortuneStrokesConcealedLatentBad Qualities Author:Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone
“The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.” MenMaySometimesCharacterSeemsJusticeQualityStrangeBrokenContradictionContradictoryCompoundsRegularityOmissionBest Of Me Author:Laurence Sterne
“Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.” LoveHeartPersonsSometimesLove IsQualityPerpetualCompassConfinedConstancyAdmiringInconstancy Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We do seminars, sometimes, for 7,000 people. These are people, predominantly women, who are seeking, who want to know more, who want to improve the quality of their lives, who want to find themselves.” PeopleKnowsWantSometimesQualitySeekingSeminars Author:Louise Hay
“In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.” IdeasSometimesStatesFightingQualityDirectorsTyrants Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“I think there's a lack of quality roles for women in comedies. Most actresses get cast as the "eye-roller" or "the serious one," while men in comedies get to do all the fun, silly stuff and muck around. Sometimes you just have to search hard for a role or create one for yourself.” ThinkingMenSometimesHardEyeFunStuffQualityRolesComedySeriousCastsActressesSillySilly Stuff Author:Isla Fisher
“In fact, sometimes traveling the world is a way of not writing a poem, but it's the quality of experience. It's being able to experience something and when you begin to write about it be able to apply the tools that you need for writing.” WorldWayNeedsWritingSometimesFactsAbleQualityToolsTime Travel Author:Rita Dove
“Quality is such an attractive banner that sometimes we think we can get away with just waving it, without doing the hard work necessary to achieve it.” ThinkingSometimesHardQualityAchieveHard WorkAttractiveGet AwayBanner Author:Phil Crosby