Piet Mondrian Quotes

The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.

Piet Mondrian

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• I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.

  

  Flume
  • Good
  • Music
  • Projects

• I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Need

• I like to be against the odds.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Like
  • Against
  • Odds

• If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Show
  • Would
  • Room

• Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Good
  • You
  • Pressure

• My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Up
  • Help
  • Age

• I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor
  • Quick

• In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Faith
  • Opinion
  • Many

• I recognized that I needed to re-train my brain to stop eating like I wanted to punish myself or punish someone else. I needed to re-learn how to eat like I loved myself, and want to nourish and support myself.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Support
  • Stop
  • Myself

• There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Up
  • Time
  • Stand

• In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Past
  • Change

• I think the rest of the world has a very wide, very slow kick. It's very simple, breaststroke. People think it's highly technical. But the more narrow, more effective and quicker you can execute it, the faster you are going to go. There's less drag, basically.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Simple

• I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Think
  • Universe

• I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Beginning
  • Just
  • Fingers

• The fact is that our business is fundamentally really strong. We have a platform and a depth that no one in the tech industry has. This means we have competitors at every layer.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Platform

• I never should have made it. It was stupid.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Stupid

• When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Society

• Phish in San Diego...I saw them play an unbelievable fucking show, which, I can honestly say, changed my life. I was physically torn apart and spiritually moved by the experience.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Life
  • Experience

• We all know that as we form thoughts, they form deep channels in our minds and in our brains. Chronic pain is an example. If you burn yourself, you pull your hand away. But if you're still in pain in six months' or six years' time, it's because these circuits are producing pain that's no longer helping you.

  

  Christopher deCharms
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Pain

• In the private sector, companies have experts running all over the place figuring out the details of how to solve particular problems, and then they share them with the rest of the organization. But in global health, global education, or global development, that’s been really difficult to do.

  

  Jim Yong Kim
  • Education
  • Running
  • Health

• In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.

  

  Alexander Dale Oen
  • Good
  • Small
  • Control

• Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.

  

  David Ulevitch
  • Good
  • Community
  • Engineering

• To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Time

• The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.

  

  Piet Mondrian