Jan Hammer Quotes

You never know what you find once you really get going.

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• SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • Practice
  • Moment

• Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Kids
  • Control
  • Best

• I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Road

• Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Deep

• I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Artist
  • Journalist
  • Rather

• Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.

  

  Yuri Andropov
  • Everything
  • Choice
  • Possible

• I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Try

• No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • World
  • Home
  • Christmas

• I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Wine
  • Website
  • Cheap

• I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
  • Love
  • Science

• Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

  

  Ovid
  • Occasion
  • Passes
  • Swiftly

• These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Work
  • Men
  • Live

• The team doctor, the team trainers, they work for the team. And I love 'em, you know. They're some good people, you know. They want to see you do good. But at the same time, they work for the team, you know. They're trying to do whatever they can to get you back on the field and make your team look good.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Job

• People don't appreciate music any more. They don't adore it. They don't buy vinyl and just love it. They love their laptops like their best friend, but they don't love a record for its sound quality and its artwork.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Music
  • Friend

• When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

  

  Origen
  • May
  • House
  • Strong

• A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • Country
  • Dream
  • Film

• We've become used to processing images that are part of the non-linear narrative theory. I think there's a thinner line between fantasy and normality. People spend much more time in their own heads now. There's so much to conform to, so many influences coming at you.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • World
  • Thoughts

• For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Up
  • Time
  • Parents

• If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and the whole physical economy, the action and reaction which constantly occur between bodily and mental conditions, the reinvigoration which results from such scenes is readily comprehended. . . . The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it; and thus, through the influence of the mind over the body gives the effect of refreshing rest and reinvigoration to the whole system.

  

  Frederick Law Olmsted
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Action

• I can't imagine a God who would ever need to intercede in the daily travails of my life.

  

  George Osborne
  • Life
  • God
  • Daily

• Simple is the only way I can write.

  

  Don Gibson
  • Simple

• You never know what you find once you really get going.

  

  Jan Hammer