Brian Eno Quotes

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.

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• The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • History
  • New

• I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Enough
  • Adventure
  • Fantasy

• I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Dance

• Time has changed and now is the age of spending.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Time
  • Age
  • Now

• Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Work
  • Price
  • Reputation

• The tale of 'Point Break' is about doing what you love and committing to what you love. It's relevant to me as a Venezuelan, to you as an American, to any Chinese person watching the film.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Film
  • Person
  • Watching

• For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Work
  • Love
  • Human

• I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Up
  • Always
  • New

• I'd always loved watching YouTube videos, and that's what inspired me to make them myself. Initially I was drawn to makeup tutorials – I learned everything I know about makeup from YouTube.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Inspired
  • Makeup
  • Loved

• The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Destiny
  • Invention
  • Cowardly

• I am very proud of Jim Leiken. He has worked with me for six years and has been patient enough to learn the ropes. He's now matured into a true chef and is working on building his team.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Team
  • Proud
  • Chef

• Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Powerful
  • Problems
  • Welcome

• The first point of contact for radicalisation is almost always a personal one. Prisons and universities, for example, tend to be easily and regularly infiltrated by radical groups, who use them as forums to propagate their ideas.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Always
  • Ideas
  • Example

• I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Right
  • Leader
  • Heat

• And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Kids
  • Future
  • Small

• Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Believe
  • American

• I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hope

• The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural than that he should write for those who, even if they do not pay him, at least understand him?

  

  Amado Nervo
  • Understand
  • Public
  • Circle

• I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Music
  • Know
  • Insomnia

• But what is clear about pain universally is this: To the extent that we are motivated to get on with life, we seem to be able to tolerate more pain; in other words, our threshold seems to increase. Conversely, to the extent that we are unmotivated to get out of our chair, our threshold seems to go down.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Motivated

• The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces, the chief points in the process of history.

  

  Eduard Bernstein
  • History
  • Events
  • Forces

• Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
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  • Excitement
  • Signature