Erik Spiekermann Quotes
The attention someone gives to what he or she makes is reflected in the end result, whether it is obvious or not.
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If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?
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It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention.
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Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call it a bastard offspring of 'Frankenstein;' its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn't Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts.
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When someone is giving you his opinion, you should receive it with deep gratitude even though it is worthless. If you don't, he will not tell you the things that he has seen and heard about you again. It is best to both give and receive opinions in a friendly way.
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As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself … All of which I've earned a living doing.
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The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
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I don't know about the rest of the world, but America loves redemption. They love giving people second chances.
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You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map.
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Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
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I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.
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For me, going home at 5:30 is as much about my own choices, but also giving my team those choices, too.
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Giving money doesn't make you an insider. If that's considered being an insider, I guess Donald Trump is an insider. That doesn't make sense.
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I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.
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People have confidence in you. It's easy to have confidence in somebody that's going out there every night and giving the team a chance to win.
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Disney's Aulani Resort has really developed the southwest coast of Oahu and led to it getting more attention.
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Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances.
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The moral abhorrence of private prisons has been brought to our attention by courageous acts of investigative journalism, illuminating scholarship, and the work of activists who have decried the social stratification brought about by our prison systems.
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A conductor, in giving a faithful reproduction and exact translation of the written notes, can re-create the thought and emotion of an unknown person-the composer-which can sometimes be a transfiguring experience.
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Some people don't feel like they need to give anything back because it's like, "Oh, if you're famous, you can just keep giving, and it doesn't matter." It's not just about money. It's not just about giving people gifts or whatever.
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Whoever doesn't worship God by choice will worship the creation by necessity.
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Impatience has a poor track record for perfection. Getting things right usually includes calming down!
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The attention someone gives to what he or she makes is reflected in the end result, whether it is obvious or not.
