Quotes 2721 till 2740 of 3657.
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The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.
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The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
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The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
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The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.... Recently, we've managed to wade a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting.
Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 03 min 55 sec -
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
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The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
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The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
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The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
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The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.
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The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
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The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before.
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The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beingsÂ… As the shadow follows the body, As we think, so we become.
Source: Dhammapada -
The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.
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The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!
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