Ulric Neisser Quotes
Paying attention is not just analyzing carefully; rather, it is a constructive act... What we build has only the dimensions we have given it.Ulric Neisser
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
Damian Lewis -
As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
Omari Hardwick -
When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
Caio Fonseca -
I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
Vincent Cassel -
I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
Padma Lakshmi -
I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
Kate McKinnon
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It's important to raise your voice in things you feel passionate about and things that you know about. Don't raise your voice just to raise your voice if you have nothing behind it and don't know what you're talking about.
Zendaya -
You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else... I sound like him, but I act like myself.
Damon Wayans, Jr. -
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
Yann Martel -
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
E. O. Wilson -
The comparison here implied between the actions of one of the higher animals and of one so low in the scale as an earth-worm, may appear far-fetched; for we thus attribute to the worm attention and some mental power, nevertheless I can see no reason to doubt the justice of the comparison.
Charles Darwin -
When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.
Elizabeth Berg
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I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.
Pitbull -
I've seen people who come to work say, 'No, I'm doing it this way, and that's that.' I'm the opposite - I like being out of my element; it's where I like to live.
Bill Hader -
Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.
Jesse Ventura -
When your playing drama, and you're in the moment, and you can nail the emotion that is called for, it just feels like a smooth thing. It's so great. There is nothing like getting a laugh, though.
Lauren Bowles -
The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead.
Jane Byrne -
I'm a very early riser, and so I like to get up and try hard to write before the day even really gets started. Just me and a pot of coffee - I find I can get a lot done that way.
Cliff Sloan
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There is no sense in getting excited by market cap because it is a tool.
Dilip Shanghvi -
When a director shifts gears as often as does Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the man behind the emotionally rich debut film 'Amores Perros,' you may wonder if he knows what he wants.
Elvis Mitchell -
People's attention spans don't run too long these days.
Daron Malakian System Of A Down -
I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
It's beauty that captures your attention. Personality which captures your heart.
Oscar Wilde -
Paying attention is not just analyzing carefully; rather, it is a constructive act... What we build has only the dimensions we have given it.
Ulric Neisser