Gary A. Klein Quotes

People sometimes are so confident in their flawed beliefs that they get stuck - fixated - and as a result are blinded to insights that are right in front of them.

Gary A. Klein

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• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Creativity

• I love to smell like roses, literally all day!

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Like
  • Smell
  • Roses

• If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • You
  • Teacher
  • Disciple

• I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Hero
  • Force
  • Used

• Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Value

• For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Know

• I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Unique

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Laugh
  • I Can

• The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Education
  • Really
  • Skills

• When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Up
  • Change
  • Day

• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Air
  • Ability
  • Consumers

• India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Technology
  • Innovation
  • Accountability

• The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Waiting

• I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Live
  • Years
  • Jerusalem

• Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Work
  • Never
  • Studio

• A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • World
  • Christmas
  • New Year

• Everything is complicated about using concrete - the discipline and dedication necessary to make consistent batches, understanding exactly how the formwork will be laid, what the timing is for the pours, how you keep it clean and neat to achieve a fine quality.

  

  Annabelle Selldorf
  • Quality
  • Understanding
  • Discipline

• The hard part about writing about a guy like John Brown is that he was so serious, and his cause was so serious, that most of what's been written about him is really serious and, in my opinion, a little bit boring.

  

  James McBride
  • Writing
  • Guy
  • Opinion

• Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Me
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• I like to see how other people work and be part of their stuff and see what I can do to be part of their worlds. Its a pretty big challenge, and that excites me.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • People
  • Work
  • Pretty

• People sometimes are so confident in their flawed beliefs that they get stuck - fixated - and as a result are blinded to insights that are right in front of them.

  

  Gary A. Klein
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Belief