“Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting of the sun on the earth makes two dimensions - I thought that by simple intellectual analogy, the fourth dimension could project an object of three dimensions, or, to put it another way, any three-dimensional object, which we see dispassionately, is a projection of something four-dimensional, something we are not familiar with.” WayTwoEarthThreeFoundSimpleCasesSunFourObjectsProjectsIntellectualShadowLogicFamiliarCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningDimensionsFourthAnother WayProjectionAnalogiesOntologyThree Dimensions Author:Marcel Duchamp
“I really wanted to work with Luc Besson. I'm a big fan of his. Did you ever see 'The Professional.' It was very violent. But a fabulous story, a fabulous movie, very well done. So that and two or three other projects of his that I've seen, I just thought if I had a shot to work with him I wanted to do it.” IfsWellsTwoDoneStoriesBigsWantedThreeFansProjectsShotsViolentFabulousWell Done Author:Morgan Freeman
“Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew (in words Kant would write almost three centuries later) that nothing straight would be made from the crooked timber of humanity.” PeopleWritingMadeWould BePoliticalHumanityThreeCenturyMaterialsProjectsDefinedFlawedCrookedTimber Author:George Will
“It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.” ShowsDreamTodayLastsThreeProjectsMethodDecadesFormal Author:Hilary Putnam
“A great trick that I learned having worked as a screenwriter for many years, the way screenwriters work, is they break the project down into three-act structure: Act 1, Act 2, Act 3. I think that is a great way to break down any project, whether it's a new business or anything at all.” ThinkingWayYearsThreeBreakProjectsStructureTricksBreaking DownScreenwritersNew Business Author:Steven Pressfield
“One thing I've found in any project is almost universally about three quarters of the way through - or maybe a little father, maybe seventh eighths on the way through - any project will explode.” WayLittlesThreeFoundFatherOne ThingProjectsQuarters Author:Steven Pressfield
“The problem I've always discovered in my own work when this kind of thing happens when you hit the wall is there's almost always a reason. You've almost always made a mistake in the initial conception of the project. You misapprehended something or you thought something would work and now you're three quarters on the way through and you see that it doesn't work.” WayKindMadeReasonProblemHappensThreeMy OwnMistakeWallProjectsThings HappenConceptionQuartersInitialsMade A Mistake Author:Steven Pressfield