“If you've taken the job to be the stylist for a collection, then I think it's important for you to really listen to the designer and look at the board. Look at the wall, look at what the designer is interested in, and then move on to that. But the designer also must not lose sight of the reason for their point of view. Otherwise it won't come across.” ThinkingImportantReasonMovingTakenWallPoint Of ViewDesigner Author:Polly Allen Mellen
“I think everyone at some point comes up against a wall. Curiously, though, if you continue working, you might readdress that idea from another direction. If you didn't try something, you'd never have anything; if you didn't make an attempt to make the work, it wouldn't exist. There have been times when I could not work, and I would just go and sit down in the studio and wait to see what might happen. You can't always just go and take an exotic trip and come back and make something.” ThinkingTryingWaitingWall Author:Keith Sonnier
“A lot of people will tell you the first step to starting something new is to have an idea. But to me the first step starts long before that. The first step to acting like an entrepreneur is to look not at the writing on the wall but at the spaces between the writing. It's in the gap between what's being said and what's not being said that entrepreneurs thrive. The way to get going is to find the courage to take your dream out of your head and put it to the test in the real world. Don't just think it; act on it.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingLongRealDreamActingWallEntrepreneurThriveSomething NewReal World Author:Linda Rottenberg
“Politics right now is in a very dark place, and I think the only place for me is to do what I do - make films, create art, watch it as it evolves. Right now it's like Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall, and a great fall is happening. The behavior seems to be really dumb.” ThinkingArtFilmFallDarkWallBehaviorDumbEvolveHumpty Dumpty Author:Robert Redford
“If you let interest rates be freed, be set by the free market, they would rise dramatically. There would be a lot of broken furniture on Wall Street. It needs to be broken. The back of the speculative bubble would be broken and we could slowly heal the financial system. That's what I think we need to do but it's never going to happen because there's trillions of asset values dependent on the Fed continuing to suppress, repress interest rates and shovel $85 billion a month of liquidity into the market.” ThinkingValuesInterestBrokenWallRateFinancialHealBubblesFree MarketInterest Rate Author:David Stockman
“I think there's an interest right now in the performance aspect of artworks, instead of just hanging things on walls. We're in a moment when a lot of younger artists are looking at work from the '60s and '70s - they are looking at the pieces by Marina Abramovic or Vito Acconci. These pieces have a time element. They were performed live. To perform them again now isn't simply an homage, because it's a different audience, a different moment.” ThinkingDifferentMomentsArtistInterestAudienceWallHomage Author:Glenn Ligon
“You shouldn't give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.” ThinkingGivingCareBrokenWallHealthyGiving UpTragedyCarefulTake CareBe CarefulEnd TimesSpend TimeTake Care Of Yourself Author:Jane Fonda
“The legacy of Ronald Reagan will live on forever. I, of course, had the wonderful opportunity of working with him and getting to know him personally. A more wonderful person you couldn't meet. I think the coming down of the Berlin Wall will always live in infamy. I treasure his friendship and appreciate so much what he did for me personally and for the issue of reducing gun violence.” ThinkingOpportunityForeverViolenceWonderfulWallGunAppreciateLegacyInfamyBerlin Wall Author:Sarah Brady
“I think writers always want to be taken seriously as writers, but it's not always possible. There's a difference between persistence and banging your head against the same wall a hundred times. Sometimes it's better to look away from the wall and see what else might be available that's easier.” ThinkingSometimesTakenWallPersistence Author:Chris Kraus
“I think that all art is socially conscious. There is no alternative. Whatever we produce contains a political and social statement. There's no way to avoid that, unless it is pure decoration. But even pure decoration has also some value because you can read pure decoration as a way to ignore the reality that is around us, saying, "Well, I'm not interested. I just like to paint this wall blue.” ThinkingArtRealityPoliticalValuesWallConsciousArt IsPaintNot InterestedDecoration Author:Alfredo Jaar
“A company that was I think the one I learned the most from in Wall Street 2, just in terms of my own character in and the kind of firm he worked in, was John Thomas Financial. There it's like warriors in an arena getting ready for battle. Thomas Belesis just fires these guys up like there is no tomorrow, and I absolutely got addicted to that optimism and adrenaline and that "We're going to do it, we're going to do it, buddy" kind of attitude that he had.” ThinkingKindCharacterGuyTermAttitudeWallTomorrowBattleOptimismFinancialWarriorFirmBuddyAdrenaline Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“I mean I think one of the larger problems going on right now is, debate has replaced discussion. As I say you can't lump Wall Street into one category. That doesn't mean anything. Every firm has a different attitude and does different things and puts their cherries in certain places and their money in others. Some are vicious, nasty, I will cut you down at all costs to make a buck, some have a much higher moral standard.” ThinkingMeanDifferentProblemAttitudeMoralCuttingWallDebateFirmDiscussionReplacedNasty Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“Most people look at a feature film and say, "It's just a movie." For me there is no border or wall between fiction and documentary filmmaking. In documentaries, you have to deal with real people and their real feelings - you are working with real laughter, happiness, sadness. To try to reflect the reality is not the same as reality itself. That's why I think that making a good documentary is much harder than making a good feature film.” PeopleThinkingTryingRealFeelingsRealityFilmSadnessWallLaughterFilmmaking Author:Mano Khalil
“There are people clamoring for the election of Donald Trump because they hate anyone whose skin is a slight shade different than theirs. They are calling for the eradication of Islam and want to build a wall along an arbitrary line that keeps Mexicans out of the land they probably have more of a right to cross than the people who now somehow think they have a right to be there.” PeopleThinkingDifferentHateWallSkinsElectionIslam Author:John Lurie
“Seeing and playing with physical objects can enable access to symbolic ideas. When I studied physics and math at university it was all done through equations and textbooks whereas artists go to art school and start making stuff; they fling paint at the walls, they dance and bash things together with giant bits of metal. Our society has come to think of science as being a very abstractified thing, and art as being a materialized thing.” ThinkingArtDoneSchoolTogetherArtistWallPaintMathPhysicsMetalsFlingBash Author:Margaret Wertheim
“I don't really know what's going to happen 10,000 years from now. We've been biologically modern for, what, almost 200,000 years? Let's go back to the cave paintings: I think the moment that someone landed a charcoal on a wall to describe reality, that's language already - that happened on a vertical surface, which, even though they didn't build it, somehow we could understand it as architecture because there's a cavity that separates the inside and outside. That's 40,000 years in the past.” ThinkingMomentsRealityPastLanguageModernPaintingWallArchitecture Author:Jimenez Lai
“When we think about Islamic feminism, it is not just about women's rights. It's about a more progressive and tolerant expression of Islam in the world for all people. Women's rights is one aspect of it, it's not the end-all, but I also think that the women's issue is the strongest entry point that we've got to challenging extremism. You raise a woman's issue and you get the backs of the conservatives up against the wall faster than just about any other issue in our community. It's the fastest path that we've got to making change happen.” PeopleThinkingWorldCommunityChallengesPathFeminismWallIslamIslamicProgressiveMaking ChangesExtremism Author:Asra Nomani
“I actually think history doesn't repeat itself. There are recurrent themes, but they're repeated with variations. Each time there's an immigration crisis, a threat from outside which is met with inhospitable wall building, it's different. And I think it's helpful to notice the big patterns in history, but it's also important to pay attention to the details, which makes each situation distinct from another.” ThinkingImportantDifferentAttentionSituationBuildingWallCrisisThreatImmigrationPay AttentionHelpful Author:Lucy Hughes-Hallett
“I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.” ThinkingProblemSpaceWhiteWallBlankWhite Space Author:Annie Leibovitz
“I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsShouldStreetsBuildingWallEmptyHeyThievesHousingSquatters Author:Al Lewis
“If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.” IfsThinkingWorldFearPaintingWallStaringAwe Author:Conor Oberst
“I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we're really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don't have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate.” IfsThinkingWorldAsksIndividualRaceStreetsFrontsWallRepublicanDemocraticSettlingRunnersObamacareMandatesInsidersBailouts Author:Rick Perry
“What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.” PeopleThinkingWellsSeeingStreetsWallUnhappyOur SocietyUnhappinessOccupy Wall Street Author:Colin Powell
“You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.” PeopleThinkingKnowsRealCasesStreetsWallTruth IsCongressImpressionMistakenReal Truth Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't suspend disbelief.” ThinkingAudienceSpecialEffectsEventsWallDisbeliefOver The TopSpecial EffectsCgi Author:Sylvester Stallone
“There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.” ThinkingGovernmentCasesStreetsWallInvolvedFinancialCorruptionBeing TrueComplexitySchemesJury Author:Matt Taibbi
“I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.” ThinkingKnowsStreetsWallIncreaseBonus Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldn’t do the other. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.” PeopleThinkingModernWallDanceDancerBalletUnhealthyBallet DancerModern Dance Author:Twyla Tharp
“I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York.” ThinkingWorldShouldDifferentWholeGirlInterestingCitiesBehindsStreetsNew YorkWallGoes OnSceneBotherShould IDifferent WorldsBehind The ScenesWorking Girl Author:Sigourney Weaver
“When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.” ThinkingFeetStrangeWallWoodsIntenseSnowGiantsLaunching Author:Shaun White