Stanley Kubrick Quotes
The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.Stanley Kubrick
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra -
Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
Imran Amed -
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
Walter Benjamin -
We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
Warren Spector -
Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
Valerie Plame
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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?
Dan Pink -
I love tuning into Radio 1 on a Friday night after training and hearing the new stuff.
Adam Peaty -
The American public was lied to about the Vietnam War month by month by each of these five administrations Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon. It's a tribute to the American public that their leaders perceived that they had to be lied to. It's no tribute to us that it was so easy to fool the public.
Daniel Ellsberg -
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrong-doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
Aldous Huxley -
I'm very wary of trust, you see.
Kristin Scott Thomas -
To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.
Deb Caletti
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I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.
Ellen Ochoa -
Focus on making you the best you you can be as an actor and follow your own path. You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self-esteem issues.
Craig Sheffer -
I've never been a fearful person. When I was growing up, I wanted to be an actress, a writer, and a musician and I never really processed that those are the three hardest jobs - I just never even processed it.
Krysten Ritter -
Marketers sometimes get caught in this lie that you must talk to people only in the voice that they recognize.
Bozoma Saint John -
If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.
David Cameron -
As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.
Les Wexner
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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
Frances McDormand -
The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
Dan Pfeiffer -
In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness.
John Muir -
With my family, I'm trying to raise them to have respect for all people and make friends around the world and feel at home with the world and really live a truly global life because I think it's what forms them and it's really important to me.
Angelina Jolie -
The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.
Stanley Kubrick