Andreas Feininger Quotes
No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics.
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.
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I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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It had always been a dream of mine to come to New York to work. Coming to New York and looking for work is one thing, but coming to New York and already having a job and feeling like you are already part of the city has been an amazing experience for me.
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Each show comes with its own set of problems to work through.
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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.
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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
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Most of my work may happen at a computer, but it's still a new and very exciting frontier.
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I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer; I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and computers. I'm much more about what I'm hearing and what it needs to be like. I deal with songs and ideas and instruments.
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We really think highly of the executives at SBC. And Microsoft is one of the great companies of the 21st century. It is in all of our best interests to work together. In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself; you have to form alliances.
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We have much work ahead, to stand still.
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Trading forces someone to think hard; those who merely work hard generally lose their focus and intellectual energy. In addition, they end up drowning in randomness; work ethics draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal.
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My concern is with the rhythms of nature.. .I work inside out, like nature.
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The language of art is constituted precisely by the fact that it speaks to the self-understanding of every person, and it does this as ever present and by means of its own contemporaneousness. Indeed, precisely the contemporaneousness of the work allows it to come to expression in language. Everything depends on how something is said.
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A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.
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It's really no different for me 'cause I work for BET so it's like the writers are always on strike.
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When I work I work very fast, but preparing the work can take any length.
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How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?
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I was definitely nervous turning up on my first day to shoot with Woody Allen.
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What's a good metaphor for a Harvard student? A talking, gold-plated pile of manure, wearing a fleece.
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No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics.
