Paul Engle Quotes

The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.

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• Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Music
  • Group

• When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Child

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Crazy
  • Religious
  • Degree

• In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Reality
  • Honesty
  • Page

• No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Book
  • Enjoy
  • Comedians

• The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Science
  • End
  • Theory

• My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Father
  • Like

• Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Control

• One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

  

  Ed Harris
  • You
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Travel
  • Write

• Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.

  

  Beck
  • You
  • Air
  • Start

• I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

  

  John Madden
  • Teacher

• We put forth proposals. They are still on the table, ... They have yet properly to be considered by the other side.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Conversation
  • Proposals

• I have always been a grumbler. I am designed for the part - sagging face, weighty underlip, rumbling, resonant voice. Money couldn't buy a better grumbling outfit.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Money

• Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.

  

  Paul J. Meyer
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Goals

• Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite apes like themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality, they persecuted him relentlessly, and the only model pupils whom I have ever got to know have all been failures in after-life.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Teachers
  • Failures
  • Tyrants

• General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards each successive thesis that offers, and you can no more kill it off by logic than you can kill off obstinacy or practical joking.

  

  William James
  • Attitude
  • Logic
  • Skepticism

• ...and I've had to call somebody who purports to be some sort of boiler man...am I just unlucky or are plumbers evil lying bags of shit?

  

  Ed Byrne
  • Boiler
  • Purport
  • Plumbers

• I write all of my songs from scratch, so the one thing I love about EDM is the way a song transforms into a piece of art, and how the different sounds can change the feel of the record.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Way
  • Feel
  • Write

• Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Believe
  • Strong
  • Alone

• As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Form
  • Metaphysical
  • Conceptual

• The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.

  

  Paul Engle
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  • Poet
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