Michel Gondry Quotes
I don't thrive on control. I'm not looking for control. I think I get better results when I don't control things.
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Uncertainty of any sort results in volatility, and Brexit will be no exception.
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The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.
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Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.
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I got quite good results from protein plates.
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I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
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When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.
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We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding, love and attention can produce the biggest results.
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I love being on the periphery with a group of people who have the same values that I do. People who don't get off on fame, who just like the process of making movies and thrive.
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We want to maintain the strategy at this very moment which is producing results rapidly.
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Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire.
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You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
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It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
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Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.
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Now all the youth of England are on fire, And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies; Now thrive the armorers, and honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man.
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Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that society must live and thrive by way of the native impulses of individual human beings.
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In our own days we have seen no princes accomplish great results save those who have been accounted miserly.
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It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.
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Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in the upper 3000 feet, and as many as 80-90% of the animals you catch can make light. The biomimetic lure that I developed imitates one of these - a common deep sea jellyfish called Atolla.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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It struck me that Steve Jobs, known to be such a brilliant speaker, had a very difficult time explaining things when he was younger. He was describing technology that didn't exist. He had MIT engineers, and he was trying to tell them what he wanted; but there were no terms for what he wanted yet. I think a lot of his early frustration was trying to quickly get his vision to the finish line.
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I don't thrive on control. I'm not looking for control. I think I get better results when I don't control things.
