Stephen Gardiner Quotes

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

Stephen Gardiner

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• Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.

  

  Felicia Day
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Screenwriting
  • Itch

• I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Work
  • Business
  • Myself

• I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Health
  • Day
  • Stronger

• The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Movie
  • Freedom
  • Challenge

• Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

  

  Ralph Ransom
  • Joy
  • Tears
  • Plant

• I don't think nobody's doubting I can play basketball.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Think
  • Play
  • Basketball

• In the face of Russian aggression, we’re not going to turn our back to our allies in Europe. We’re going to stay united in NATO, which is the world’s strongest alliance.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World

• If the universe has any soul, it is the soul of irony.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Soul
  • Universe

• The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

  

  Edward VIII
  • Children
  • America
  • Parents

• I'm a patriarch now. I've got to go get the bread.

  

  Chance The Rapper

• Everybody has parents. As a dramatist, whenever you write a character, you must write their parents as well, even if the parents aren't there.

  

  Mark O'Donnell
  • Character
  • Parents

• Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.

  

  Lyall Watson
  • Live
  • Elephant

• Seeing other people is incredibly engaging, and that's one of the drivers that made us partner with Facebook - social communication. Not social newsfeeds, but actual face-to-face, seeing multiple avatars in a play experience, that's going to be a very big part of the future in VR.

  

  Brendan Iribe
  • People
  • Experience
  • Future

• I don't have a tolerance for long meetings. I generally expect to get things over with quickly.

  

  Chris Liddell
  • Long
  • Tolerance

• Using predictive models from engineering and public health, designers will plan safer, healthier cities that could allow us to survive natural disasters, pandemics, and even a radiation calamity that drives us underground.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Health
  • Engineering

• For the most part, my house stays the same over the years. I tend to design with pieces that feel timeless to me, so I'm not constantly rearranging my home.

  

  Joanna Gaines
  • Home
  • House
  • Design

• There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

  

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Sex

• Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.

  

  Mary Lou Williams
  • Night
  • Society

• It's always a long process of trying to suppress the self-doubt on set when you're acting.

  

  Dylan O'Brien
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Doubt

• I've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm as possible.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Try
  • Calm
  • Forest

• I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Guitar

• Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Life
  • Today
  • Wish

• It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

  

  Stephen Gardiner
  • Calm
  • Discover
  • Surroundings