Brian Solis Quotes

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• I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.

  

  Kat Graham
  • More
  • Still
  • Brown

• My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Present

• As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Relationships

• If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Taste

• Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • You
  • Modern
  • Whatever

• I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Strong
  • Running
  • Leadership

• Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Me
  • Role
  • Written

• Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Good
  • Political
  • Decision

• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Mother
  • Giving
  • Ending

• The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • World
  • Now
  • Plants

• The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Great
  • Why
  • Game

• I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Sometimes
  • Paint

• There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Failure
  • See
  • Darkness

• Quite a few people feel uncomfortable when faced with the claim that the Jews are the world's smartest people. In our politically correct era, one is not expected to argue that one group within humanity has an advantage over all the others.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • World
  • Humanity

• Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • War
  • Achieve

• In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Long
  • Ideas
  • Opinion

• For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Anxiety

• I love playing music. There's no way I could do anything else.

  

  Chris Young
  • Music

• Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • People
  • Painting
  • Mood

• Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities. If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Together
  • Earth

• We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

  

  Clara Zetkin
  • Women
  • Spiritual
  • Moral

• The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Mind
  • Alone
  • Single

• We cannot measure, what it is we do not know to value.

  

  Brian Solis
  • Value
  • Measure