Eric Maisel Quotes

No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.

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• Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Truth
  • Memory
  • Complicated

• A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Last

• The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Life
  • Never
  • Actor

• One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Fall
  • Water
  • Ideas

• I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Think

• I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Study
  • Too Much
  • Cricket

• Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Life
  • Work
  • Pleasure

• The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Technology

• Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • Best
  • Force
  • Insecurity

• She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

  

  O. Henry
  • Woman
  • Act
  • Invisible

• What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Together
  • Movie

• Hospitals are about healing.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Healing
  • About
  • Hospitals

• Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.

  

  Said Musa
  • Government
  • Effort
  • Growth

• It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Business
  • Day
  • Fight

• Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Time
  • Election

• Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Me
  • Pressure

• In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Politics

• If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Fortune
  • Duration
  • Pays

• I never made conscious choices. There were times in my life that I chose the first job that came along because I was broke. I think that there were maybe a handful of times that I had a choice. In recent years, Ive had more of a choice, and its been very nice to have that choice, but most of the time, you just hope that theres another job after this one.

  

  Alfred Molina
  • Life
  • Time
  • Job

• I was at the foot of my class.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Class
  • Foot

• I have a lot of written material, and all of it's different. Some records that I have are country, some pop, some alternative rock. I just write what I feel, so I can't specifically say. I just want to be an artist of truth and an artist that stays true to herself.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Different
  • Country
  • Truth

• I like to tell the artist what the song or album means to me, in detail. Then I let the artist run with it and create in an unrestrained manner. Once the artist gets back to me with a few ideas, I like to do the little changes to make it perfectly speak to the audience.

  

  Rick Anthony DeJesus Adelitas Way
  • Song
  • Running
  • Mean

• No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Artist
  • Darts