Bridget Riley Quotes

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.

Bridget Riley

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• If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Fall
  • Horse
  • Backup

• Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Job
  • Lost
  • Lose

• What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Thinking
  • Learning
  • Looking

• My mom could be pretty strict.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Pretty
  • Mom
  • Strict

• I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Believe
  • American
  • America

• I'm not a mean comic, I don't want to turn anybody off - I just want to give a point of view or my take on things that everyone can laugh at.

  

  Gary Owens
  • Want
  • Laugh
  • View

• I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Alone

• While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • You
  • Gift

• The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Space
  • Beginning
  • Library

• 'Wicked' has such a wild fan base - like, a voracious fan base.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland

• As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Reality

• I got Type 1 diabetes at 30. It hit me in 1982 when I was a White House Fellow in Washington. I had viral pneumonia. I lost 35 pounds in six weeks. And I couldn't see anything. Everything was blurry. I was always thirsty.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • House
  • Lost

• I think it is important to maintain a sense of self and confidence, not letting either falter for the sake of a particular part or project, no matter how great it might be.

  

  Fred Savage
  • Great
  • Important
  • Confidence

• If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah.

  

  James Durbin Quiet Riot
  • Life
  • Song
  • Stop

• Actually, a lot of my influences were horn players. I really liked Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane and Miles Davis - people like that. My dad had a lot of those records. So when I started playing jazz primarily, it wasn't jazz guitar that I was listening to.

  

  Mary Halvorson
  • People
  • Dad
  • Listening

• The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

  

  Phoebe Snow
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Anxiety

• Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Up
  • Song
  • Energy

• For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.

  

  Jeff Goodell

• I like to surprise myself. I like to surprise my fans, too.

  

  Corey Hawkins

• I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Great
  • Book
  • Smile

• Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.

  

  Bridget Riley