Charles Ghigna Quotes

Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.

Charles Ghigna

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• Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Done
  • Down
  • Flying

• You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Want
  • Cooking
  • Camera

• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Simple
  • Better
  • Voice

• It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Important
  • Motivational
  • Decisions

• I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Truth

• Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Men
  • Fun
  • Age

• Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Love
  • Words
  • Thoughts

• Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • River
  • Boat
  • Reaction

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Change
  • Celebrity

• I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Doing

• We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Law
  • Rule
  • Rule Of Law

• I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Man
  • Army
  • Knew

• He's one of my closest friends in the industry. He makes me feel like a teenager - I have to act and think like an adult so much. He makes me feel young again.

  

  Rihanna
  • Friends
  • Teenager

• The hard reality is that attacks by vehicles in public places are very hard to defend against in a free and open society. The best defense against such attacks is good intelligence, and that often comes from inside the Muslim community.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Good
  • Society
  • Free

• I think marriage works for some people, but I just don't think it could work for me. I don't see it.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • People
  • Work
  • Marriage

• I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Life
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, 'How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?' That's what mattered to me.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Girl

• When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn't look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was 'The Great American Economy.'

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Great
  • Writing
  • American

• One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • True
  • Kind
  • Wise

• A curious paradox: people have only the narrowest private interest in mind when they act, yet they are at the same time more than ever determined in their behavior by the instincts of the mass. ... The diversity of individual goals is immaterial in face of the identity of the determining forces.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.

  

  Charles Ghigna
  • Writing
  • Night
  • Week