Barnett Newman Quotes
Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.Barnett Newman
Quotes to Explore
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
Valerie Plame -
I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
Warren Farrell -
You must always do what you feel is right.
Vidal Sassoon -
The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
Maajid Nawaz -
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
Napoleon Hill -
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.
Lapo Elkann -
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Oprah Winfrey -
I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
Tamsin Egerton -
I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
Vidal Sassoon -
All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
Ralph Bakshi -
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Jack London
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.
Mae Jemison -
I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.
Olga Kurylenko -
I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
Padma Lakshmi -
I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.
Warren Spector -
Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
Kat Edmonson
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Kanban system directs each work center when and what to produce but, more importantly, it directs when not to produce. No card—no production.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt -
I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.
David Gest -
I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
Nate Diaz -
The visionary, industrious, Christian, and segregated black community of the early- to mid-1960s understood and embraced the importance of a positive self-perception. It was this same recognition that drove millions of young patriotic black men throughout our nation's history to be among the first to volunteer when our nation went to war.
Burgess Owens -
With 'The Keep,' I began with a theory about pitting the isolated disconnection of the gothic realm against present-day hyperconnectedness. I emerged feeling that the gothic genre is all about hyperconnectedness - the possibility of disembodied communication - and that we now live in a kind of permanently gothic state.
Jennifer Egan -
Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.
Barnett Newman