“Every opera, because every opera is a unique slice of a particular perspective, historical perspective and psychological perspective if not musical style, and so forth, they all present different challenges. Some can be musically very challenging, some can be psychologically more challenging. There is always something that requires a pretty specific amount of energy and attention.” DifferentEnergyChallengesAttentionStylePerspectiveUniqueHistoricalMusicalPsychological Author:Thomas Hampson
“I see basically two models of law firms in the world. One of the global law firm they go by the name of one-stop shops, which will open an office, everybody see and opportunity and will also practice the local law of that jurisdiction. That's a successful model as well but that's not the only model. And the other model is those of independent law firms, national champions which have some unique strengths as well and I think both have their strengths and weaknesses.” ThinkingWorldOpportunitySuccessfulOfficeUniqueWeaknessIndependentFirmChampion Author:Cyril Shroff
“I actually had four space flights altogether, three times on shuttles. My second flight was really unique for me because I was going back into space, first of all. The first one was like an appetizer at a nice dinner. You know, you want to go up and you want more. So, the second time I got into space, it was neat because I got to actually do two space walks.” NiceUniqueFlightNeat Author:Leroy Chiao
“When I first started out in my career, I'd been a lit major in college so I didn't have a lot of choices. The traditional options were management consultant or investment banking, and I hadn't even taken an economics class so those were pretty much out. I didn't want to go into academia. For me, research and instinct were my unique tools that seemed to work best on a marketing and merchandizing path. It's kind of right-brain and left-brain.” KindChoicesPathTakenCollegeUniqueManagementInstinctInvestmentMarketingLit Author:Maureen Chiquet
“We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.” ThinkingTryingRealArtistUnique Author:Ryan Guzman
“If we keep an optimistic view about the future, we definitely have to look for our place. Not to be redundant. And that means we have to emphasize what makes us unique.” MeanUniqueOptimisticRedundant Author:Garry Kasparov
“For us to make sure that we have full lives, meaningful lives, we will have to elevate our unique human qualities. And I think we know now, we can see clearly what makes us different from machines. And that's why the future is enhanced humanity.” ThinkingDifferentHumanityQualityUniqueMeaningfulMeaning Of LifeMeaningful LifeLife Means Author:Garry Kasparov
“I would say, you have a unique chance of learning more about the game of chess with your computer than Bobby Fischer, or even myself, could manage throughout our entire lives. What is very important is that you will use this power productively and you will not be hijacked by the computer screen. Always keep your personality intact.” ImportantChancePersonalityComputerUniqueChessManage Author:Garry Kasparov
“Anyone of any age, any race, any background, any education - if they write an interesting enough book - can become a published author. What it takes is imagination, the ability to put words on a paper in an interesting, perhaps even unique way, the fortitude to rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, and polish, edit, polish, edit until the story sort of sings. I think everyone has a story inside him, but only a few have the persistence and, of course, the interest, to write it down and see it through.” ThinkingWritingBookEnoughAgeInterestImaginationAbilityInterestingUniquePersistenceFortitude Author:Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
“Palestinian believers have a unique experience with US foreign policy and our close ties with Israel. This alliance has many layers, but given the strong support of the US church, and the frequency of religious language surrounding these policies, Palestinian Christian friends raise important and challenging questions about how we understand the intertwining of theology and politics in the US.” ImportantChristianLanguageStrongChallengesChurchReligiousSupportPolicyUniqueBelieverTheologyForeign PolicyPalestinian Author:Ed McBain
“If you increase the number of rockets you build and you buy, then it's the scale of the economy, the price is going to come down. It may not come down in order of magnitude, but if several commercial ventures start being successful and there becomes a bigger market for these rockets, the price will naturally come down a bit. That's why I think Excalibur Almaz, we're a little bit unique in that we don't look at our so-called competition with disdain, we want them to succeed and it needs to have more than one player. Even if we are successful, we couldn't handle the entire market ourselves.” ThinkingEconomySuccessfulPlayerSucceedUniqueCompetitionBeing SuccessfulDisdain Author:Leroy Chiao
“We`re all aware that Hillary Clinton has a problem with the truth. Even among politicians, and that does not make her unique in the swamp that is Washington. But Hillary stands out.” ProblemPoliticianUniqueClintonStanding Out Author:Ted Cruz
“American culture is kind of an international culture, isn't it? British culture is a bit more unique. I think funny things are sort of funny around the world, really.” ThinkingWorldKindCultureUniqueAmerican Culture Author:David Walliams
“A big reason why we were able to and have been able to continue to succeed is that we had a very intense work ethic, right from the beginning. There was a do-or-die attitude toward the work. It wasn't seen as a little "club." It was like, "This is your life." We would spend hours and hours rehearsing and endlessly rewriting. We took it very seriously right off the bat. And we were also extremely critical of each other, which was another thing that was unique. A lot of comedy ensembles have a hard time being critical of each other, because they don't want to hurt each other's feelings.” ReasonFeelingsHoursHurtAttitudeComedySucceedUniqueEthicsIntenseHard TimesWork Ethic Author:Michael Showalter
“I think the universal themes of "American Pie" are what make it attractive to everybody. How to people relate to these characters? It's because these five male characters in this movie wouldn't ordinarily be in the same friend group and they each have their own part to play in the whole thing. There's a character for everybody in this movie that they can relate to... that they either were or knew someone that was. To cover the range like that is pretty unique to our franchise.” PeopleThinkingCharacterUniqueAttractive Author:Chris Klein
“We're just gonna keep making things and challenging ourselves to make them more cheaply and more renegade and more interesting. That's the only thing we might challenge ourselves to do in the age of so many movies and so many TV shows. We're aware that we're asking time of people to watch stuff, and that there's so much stuff to watch, so we're gonna try to offer you something unique. And it may not always succeed, but it will definitely be different.” PeopleTryingDifferentAgeChallengesInterestingSucceedUnique Author:Mark Duplass
“I think sometimes when people start doing improv there's some regression towards trying to replicate the "good" improvisers that they've read about in their improv books or heard about from their teachers. That's understandable, because they're trying to learn technique and stuff, but I actually think that my favorite performers are ones who have unique improv technique but also have a unique point of view that you can feel with them and their performances.” PeopleThinkingTryingBookSometimesTeacherUniqueMy FavoritePoint Of View Author:Zach Woods
“I just think it's a really unique thing to women, this weird psychotic jealousy.” ThinkingUniquePsychotic Author:Sophia Takal
“What's unique for me, as an actor, is this idea that I don't have to be grounded to the natural law of things. I can pull things out of the air and communicate with other spirits and other elements in other languages or forms, but I'm still right here, on the earth. That's a lot of fun.” EarthSpiritLanguageFunNaturalUniqueCommunicateNatural Law Author:Jonathan Tucker
“Just watching the people on the streets of NY is inspiring, there are so many styles and unique points of views. Fashion is very much inspired by the streets, has always been and I'm sure it will continue to do so.” PeopleFashionStyleUniqueInspiredPoint Of View Author:Charlotte Ronson
“I have a gut reaction to stuff that I read. Either it's a filmmaker that I really want to work with, or it's a story that I really want to be a part of and help serve, or there's a character that I feel I can bring something unique to. That's really what it's about. I would go crazy, if I just relied on the same tricks and did the same thing, all the time. It was just be no fun, at all. I really do need to try something different, every time out, and do something that scares me, a little bit.” TryingDifferentCharacterHelpingFunCrazyUniqueFilmmakerGutsScare Author:James Van Der Beek
“The first victim in journalism today is proximity. I know I've used that word a lot. Because of foreign budgets, newspapers have consolidated, and journalists now cover dozens of countries at a time. It is physically not possible for one person to understand and live the unique sets of experiences in all these places in honest and meaningful ways. Outlets used to send journalists to places like Congo for months at a time, and they were stationed there for months or years. There was a sense of immersive reporting, and that has been a casualty of the shift in news over the past years.” CountryTodayPastHonestUniqueVictimMeaningfulJournalismJournalistCongoOver The Past Author:Anjan Sundaram
“Italians don't have a unique style like France or Spain or Germany or the UK, it's different everywhere you go. The style of the girl in Milan is really architectural and modern. In Naples it's a completely different style, it's more dark. I'm sure our style was more precise in the past in the '50s or '60s where everything was very Sophia Loren. It's weird because obviously outside of Italy you think of one country, but when you're in the country you know how different the country is from the north to the center to the south to the island. There are so many differences.” ThinkingDifferentCountryPastGirlDarkModernStyleUnique Author:Alessandra Mastronardi
“Nicholas Sarkozy made the point that both America and France have political systems that they want to share with the world. There's an emphasis on being a unique person. Screw you if you don't like it. But the problem is, they're all the same.” WorldProblemPoliticalShareUniqueScrew You Author:Rosecrans Baldwin
“I want brave people. Fearless ones. A good actor just goes out and leaps off the edge and develops wings on his way down, hopefully. That's the kind of people I really enjoy working with. Playing safe isn't much fun. I like danger. It's controlled danger, always, and that's why I hope I don't lure too many good actors down into the pits with me, because I hope they maintain their own unique talents.” PeopleKindFunEnjoyTalentDangerUniqueBraveHopefullyFearlessLeap Author:Terry Gilliam
“My brands all are unique in terms of their spirits, but they have the same Armani stamp. There is a level of taste which runs through every single product. Sitting side by side, they are perhaps more stimulating than they would be just on their own. It gives a new idea, a new proposal, a new perspective.” GivingRunningSpiritTermPerspectiveUniqueProposal Author:Giorgio Armani
“What excites me and what I find most compelling is clearly not what excites other artists. It comes from my own idiosyncratic background and what I'm drawn to. Maybe this is a result of having lived in Naples during a formative period of time. I'm interested in telling a unique story in a very intense way.” ArtistUniqueIntense Author:Philip Taaffe
“It has been said that a poem should not mean but be. This is not quite accurate. In a poem, as distinct from many other kinds of verbal societies, meaning and being are identical. A poem might be called a pseudo-person. Like a person, it is unique and addresses the reader personally. On the other hand, like a natural being and unlike a historical person, it cannot lie.” KindMeanLyingNaturalUniqueHistorical Author:W. H. Auden
“I've spent most of my life in L.A. and I'm still amazed at things that I don't know about the place. There are a lot of places I've never been to yet and I may never even make it. There's so much here and there's so much of a variety in terms of culture now. It's amazing. It's all here in one big city. In a lot of ways, the city is unique in the world because it's hard to find another city that has the diversity and range. It's a microcosmic planet, if you look at it that way. And in that sense, it's very much an experimental city.” WorldCultureTermDiversityUniqueVarietyAmazed Author:Michael C. McMillen
“My process of working is not really that unique. I like to paint during the day, and block out large chunks of time with which to work. I prefer to work on a painting in a few swift passes, and not fuss over it. I think that the work needs to have an energy to it that can't be accomplished if one is adding a few strokes everyday. Once a piece is done, I don't work on it anymore. I hate fussy.” ThinkingDoneHateEnergyPaintingUniqueI HatePaintEverydayBlockAccomplishedOver It Author:Rosson Crow
“Socialism, leftism, liberalism not only doesn't respect the unique abilities of free people; it attempts to quash them and to eliminate them. Because it's unfair not only to have more than somebody else, it's unfair to be better than anybody else at whatever you do. That's not fair. So we define everything down to the lowest common denominator. We take the people at the top, bring 'em down to people at the bottom and say that's equality. We punish achievement if liberalism and leftism rules the day. But capitalism is where the respect for unique abilities and freedom resides.” PeopleAbilityCommonAchievementUniqueCapitalismBottomSocialismLiberalismUnfairLowest Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Art making comes from the human desire to share something that is universal in one sense, but unique to your sensibility in another. I think that, wherever you are in the world, that impulse exists within human beings.” ThinkingWorldArtDesireShareUniqueImpulseSensibility Author:Shepard Fairey
“There was always a unique Beirut sound, it was always there, and so this time I just dove straight into that, instead of daydreaming and wandering.” UniqueWanderDaydreamingDove Author:Zach Condon
“I think that's what so exquisite and unique about New York, it's a city that allows you to hone your craft as much as possible. There is no good or bad, somehow, strangely, there is no beginning or end. You certainly qualify it with the opening or closing of a run, but what's extraordinary is that you are actually allowed to be an artist here. It's very "belle époque," but somehow continually. That's why I love New York so much, honestly.” ThinkingRunningArtistUniqueExtraordinaryHonestlyExquisiteI Love New York Author:Nina Arianda
“In my films, I like to use the same actors again and again, so I know them really well and can bring their unique personalities into the process. However, as a director, I have strict control over the way they express their personalities. I don't want them to go beyond what I need from them, but I also don't want them to underplay. So I modulate their performances very closely, within a certain range of expression.” FilmPersonalityUnique Author:Tsai Ming-liang
“As a Muslim youth, though I played a variety of sports growing up in New Jersey, my parents were in search of a sport for me to play where I could be fully covered and not have to modify the uniform. Fencing provided a unique opportunity where I could fulfill my desire to participate in sport, wear the same uniform as my teammates, and adhere to the tenets of my faith to cover my body.” DesireOpportunitySportsParentGrowing UpYouthUniqueVarietyTeammateFencing Author:Ibtihaj Muhammad
“Back in the day, even if they were singing about the same things, each artist was unique. That's why I try to stay away from the big-name producers, so I can prove that it's not about the producer, it's about the artist. A lot of R&B artists have gotten away from being artists and are just chasing after the next hot producer and it all starts to sound the same.” TryingArtistProveUniqueSingingHotProducersBeing An Artist Author:Sisqo
“Sometimes people go off in a slightly different direction of wanting to be different, of wanting to be special, of wanting to be more, and I think that those people are often - not always, but often - genuinely different in some way. Perhaps their gender orientation is not acceptable or popular, not the norm. Or, their physical design is literally, in some way, setting them apart. Or, in many cases, they feel the burden of their ordinariness so dreadfully that they strive to find some way of being unique. I think that can be a very positive thing, but it also can be negative, destructive.” PeopleThinkingDifferentSometimesSpecialDesignUniqueNegativeStriveBurdenGenderNormVery PositiveOrdinariness Author:Katherine Dunn
“In fashion, of course, the way that women are dressed now - and also a vision of the modern woman, the woman of today. She's very feminine, but at the same time, extremely free. A Saint Laurent woman is actually very Parisian. She's not really a man's equal, she's his adversary. I worked on the catwalk with two models who worked with Yves Saint Laurent for more than 10 years. They're not just gorgeous models, they're more than that - they're very smart and very beautiful. They're more than models, they're really unique; it's personality. It's more than just fashion.” TodayBeautifulVisionModernFashionPersonalityEqualUniqueSmartSaintFeminineGorgeousAdversariesVery BeautifulVery Smart Author:Jalil Lespert
“I like to do different things and, as my actrees career evolves, I will choose roles to do things that I haven't done before. There are a lot of different sides of me, and I'm in a unique position now, for the first time in my career, to decide what direction I want to go in.” DifferentDoneUniqueFirst TimeEvolve Author:Alexandra Daddario
“Education has been critical. First at Kansas and then at Harvard Business School. It helped me build the confidence that I could go out and do things in the world. It taught me to put myself in the shoes of a decision maker and figure out what I would do if I were in his/her shoes. This is why I am a big believer in education as a foundation for reaching your unique potential.” WorldSchoolDecisionUniqueBeliever Author:Robert S. Kaplan
“Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique. You're given a mantra - the mantra that Maharishi gives is very specific, and you start to dive into subtler levels of mind, subtler levels of intellect. You transcend the whole show, into pure bliss consciousness. From your first meditation, you say, "Whoa!" It's a unique experience, but a familiar experience.” GivingMindConsciousnessMeditationCarUniqueIntellectFamiliarBlissVehicleTranscendental Author:David Lynch
“When I was starting out, it seemed like there were so many girls who were known by their first names, who were unique, who all had idiosyncrasies and characteristics that made them individual. Those girls stuck around; you'd work with them season after season. But now it's completely different.” DifferentGirlIndividualUniqueStuckIdiosyncrasies Author:Marc Jacobs
“Have you seen this inane support from CNN extolling Hillary Clinton's breathing talents; that she has this unique ability to breathe through one nostril at a time? It's obviously she's got some problems.” ProblemAbilitySupportTalentUniqueBreathe Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I just feel like there's something to be said about feeling comfortable with what you have and don't have. And - for instance, I don't think I'm particularly a great singer, but I feel like I write songs that complement my voice, you know, and I feel like it's unique. And I don't feel like I'm particularly a great actor, for instance, but I feel like I approach each thing that I do with some level of sensitivity. And I would say that comedy in general is the most disarming.” ThinkingWritingFeelingsSongComedyUniqueSensitivityComplement Author:Justin Timberlake
“I think historically there have always been new ways to find an artist. From seeing somebody in a club traditionally to running across them on YouTube, it's always shifting. But the age-old thing holds true: Is the artist unique? Are they talented? And can they communicate? Can they actually reach an audience and hold their attention?” ThinkingRunningArtistAttentionAudienceUniqueCommunicate Author:Matt Serletic
“Stick on this that Donald Trump as the outsider doesn't know what's going on. That the inside-the-Beltway culture is special and it's so unique and it's so tiny that nobody that's not part of it could ever, ever function. Nobody who's not in the establishment could possibly understand it. So they have an arrogance that leads to a condescension against people, which leads the inside-the-Beltway, the establishment, both parties, to think of Trump as no different than his voters, a bumpkin idiot.” PeopleThinkingDifferentCulturePartySpecialUniqueIdiotArroganceOutsiders Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The establishment, both parties, think "Donald Trump may have built buildings and he may have written The Art of the Deal, but he can't do what we did. He can't even understand what we do because he's too stupid." They may not say it that way, but I guarantee you they have that attitude. These are arrogant people. They're very exclusive. It is a very elite, unique group, in their own minds, and they do tell themselves they're special and they're different and they're better.” PeopleThinkingMindArtDifferentPartyAttitudeSpecialStupidBuildingUniqueArrogant Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I was thinking about the difference in voice between the different characters. Each voice has to be unique. Hypothetically you should be able to read each chapter without the heading that tells you who is telling the story.” ThinkingDifferentCharacterUnique Author:Jesmyn Ward
“When people ask me now about why I make art, I think that's what I'm seeking - a moment of transcendence with a piece. Because otherwise you're just in the hustle, you're trying to pay your bills, to do this and that, and then there's that unique moment, when you're not thinking about the market, or if it's going to sell, and all of that bullshit.” PeopleThinkingTryingArtMomentsUniqueAsk MeBullshitHustle Author:Fernando Mastrangelo