Ezra Pound Quotes
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
-
Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
-
Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
-
I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.
-
I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
-
Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
-
I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.
-
I had been writing professionally since 1988.
-
There's obviously a sense of responsibility that comes with having this following and having fans, and so there's a lot of stuff that I won't dare to post, just because I want to be a good influence.
-
The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
-
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
-
Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.
-
There are two clever tricks men know. One is to make much of nothing. The second is to make nothing of much.
-
Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.
-
As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.
-
My eyebrows could do with a trim.
-
Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.
-
I'm not a pirate. I'm an innovator.
-
I come from a heavy-lidded people. My family, you'll see pictures of them, and it's the same thing all the way back to Scotland.
-
Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.
-
I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.
-
I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
-
A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.
-
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.
