Max Beckmann Quotes

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

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• In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Work
  • Danger
  • France

• I would love to work with Raju Hirani. I never thought I would have a wish-list of directors as such, but after seeing the consistency of his storylines and the human touch he gets in his film, I would love to work with him.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Human

• When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Audience

• I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Work
  • Heart

• I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Living

• It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Work
  • English
  • Language

• I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Good
  • Work
  • Decision

• Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • American
  • Reality
  • Me

• Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.

  

  Ma Long
  • Work
  • Step
  • Hard Work

• I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Work
  • Home
  • Hide

• I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
  • Work
  • Value
  • Investment

• Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Work
  • Want
  • Focus

• Many young adults I have communicated with - both in-person and over email - constantly apologize before stating their idea, or finish each sentence with a question. Unfortunately, doing so in business puts you at an immediate disadvantage with your boss and work colleagues.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Work
  • Business
  • Question

• To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Work
  • Live
  • Trying

• I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Work
  • School
  • Experience

• I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Work
  • Young

• What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man’s animal instincts have been reinterpreted as guilt towards God. Every Nay man utters to his nature, to his real being, he flings out as a Yea, an affirmation of reality applied to God’s sanctity

  

  Georg Brandes
  • God
  • Real
  • Nature

• I have to entertain myself. An easy way to explain it is I worked in NY since I was five-years-old doing modeling and commercials, and that's a completely different world than in California where I think there's different dreams and aspirations of maybe being a so-called 'star' and so forth. Here you do your work, whether it's theater or commercials.

  

  Linda Blair
  • World
  • Work
  • Different

• After the success of 'Empire' and 'How to Get Away with Murder' and 'Scandal' and 'Power' and 'Black-ish', which all had characters that were genuine, authentic, and had the language of real people, I found myself coming into pilot season and every network just wanted to have their version of one of those shows.

  

  Jay Ellis
  • People
  • Real
  • Power

• I've got funny things. David Duchovny had to have a cast made of his face to do an old person's make-up, and I've got that cast of his face in my house. I've got something from the pilot, the original implant that was in Billy Miles' head. I've got a sign from 'The Erlenmeyer Flask.' But my house isn't a museum to 'The X-Files!'

  

  Chris Carter
  • Up
  • House
  • Funny

• I studied at Carnegie Mellon. I went there with a bunch of really, really talented kids.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Kids

• What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

  

  Max Beckmann
  • Work
  • Reality