Whit Burnett Quotes
Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.
Quotes to Explore
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I view Bitcoin as the more democratic version of money and value transfer because no one controls it... I expect the Internet to be around longer than any nation-state, so a nation-state-backed currency is actually less safe than an Internet currency in my mind.
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I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'
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What you wish to others, God wishes to you.
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I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
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Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.
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The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
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A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.
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In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
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The focus of my administration is, if somebody decides to work abroad, then it has to be from choice as opposed to necessity.
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You always believed that as good as you knew you were, there was always somebody who could take your place. I tried to work as hard as I could to make sure that didn't happen.
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Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject.
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A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.
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Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
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Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.
