Bent Sæther Quotes
Generally there are always a few things that get left off for some reason or other, although the criteria for inclusion vary from project to project.
Quotes to Explore
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.
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I hate jeans for no reason.
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I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.
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The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
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When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
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I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
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What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.
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Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
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My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.
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People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.
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Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?
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Don’t just look at the problem that you face; look at the reason behind it
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The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom.
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People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.
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There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.
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Mr. Harinton was real. There were adults in the world who would actually make sacrifices for others - not just for their own families but for anyone who needed help. Nicholas had always had the impression that families looked after one another, and he had come to understand that, on rare ocassions, children would do the same... But this was different. What Mr. Harinton was doing certainly helped Nicolas - but it also simply felt right to Nicholas. It made him want to be exactly like Mr. Harinton himself.
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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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Generally there are always a few things that get left off for some reason or other, although the criteria for inclusion vary from project to project.
