William McElcheran Quotes

For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.

William McElcheran

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• I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Movie
  • Water
  • Seems

• Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.

  

  Otto Heinrich Warburg
  • Strong
  • Band
  • Red

• My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like 'The Day After Tomorrow' where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn't be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Country
  • Family
  • Day

• Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Enthusiasm

• I love football, football is my life.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
  • Love
  • Football

• My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Music
  • Me
  • Never

• Necessity has no law.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Law
  • Necessity

• The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Life
  • Search
  • Despair

• I accept there are people out there who don't like me. I don't like them.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Me
  • Like

• It's been a dream of mine to run my own summer camp. I went to one as a kid, and I put on productions, and got lots of confidence.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Dream
  • Confidence
  • Summer

• Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Bad
  • Judgment
  • Standardized

• Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Nice
  • Sports
  • Clothes

• When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • World
  • Giving
  • Control

• When you're someone who cares about making a difference in the world, and you have resources to do that, you have literally hundreds of choices you could make about how to do that.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Choices
  • Difference

• I want everybody to know I'm approachable. I'm a true conservative, but I'm an American first.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • American
  • True
  • Want

• Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Learn
  • Luck
  • Mistakes

• Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Great
  • Hope

• I like to think I'm generally accessible, but I give readers the benefit of the doubt of being reasonably culturally-literate.

  

  Alonso Duralde
  • Readers
  • Accessible
  • Illiterate

• I love going into rehearsals day after day for three, four weeks, trying stuff, coming back the next day, building on that. So many times I'd drive home from the studio after shooting and I'd be thinking about a certain moment, and I'd think, "Oh, I know what to do!"

  

  Anthony Heald
  • Trying
  • Coming Back
  • Rehearsals

• When I hear from fans that they not only like the music but they're also very touched by the lyrics, or they also learned about a specific cause because of me, that's really rewarding.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Music
  • Fans
  • Lyrics

• For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.

  

  William McElcheran
  • Artist
  • Mystic
  • Craftsman