Pablo Picasso Quotes

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.

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• Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Friends
  • First
  • Fame

• What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Safer chemicals and more energy-efficient technologies can provide cooling without severe climate implications. Shifting to these alternatives could avoid the equivalent of 12 times the current annual carbon pollution of the United States by 2050.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Energy
  • More
  • Without

• It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Potential

• I remember when my first child was born, and I had a script that was due, and I asked the guy I was writing it for, a guy who I'm now friends with but at the time was not friend with, 'Can I have some extra time? I had a kid born.' He's like, 'No, we need it now.'

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Friends

• Call it not vain;-they do not err,Who say, that when the Poet dies,Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,And celebrates his obsequies.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Nature

• I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key

• I was 5-foot-8 when I graduated high school, but then I shot up to 6-foot-4 and got more into playing basketball.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• 'Va Savoir' is a lovable comedy about love that looks upon life as drama and uses the world of the theater as a staging device.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Life
  • World
  • Comedy

• I don't like 3D movies that have things popping out of the screen. Firstly, I find it straining on my eyes, and more importantly, it distracts me from the movie.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • Movie
  • Eyes

• Run focus groups. Do whatever you need to do to get 8 to 10 people together in a room and put your product in front of them. Ask them how much they would pay for it and whether they would pay for it. It's really important to get user validation early and often.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • People
  • Important
  • Together

• It is easy to force a reader or viewer to interact. The trick is in making them want to interact, and in letting the story unfold hand-in-hand with that.

  

  Dave Morris
  • Hand

• Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way.

  

  Christian Borle

• In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.

  

  Mary Cheney
  • Gay

• History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.

  

  Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • History

• If I don't see an emotional response to a dress, then I think something's wrong.

  

  Jenny Packham
  • Emotional

• We need to be able to guarantee the safety of all artists and activists for human rights so that it no longer takes extraordinary courage to call for a better world - so that every person with the ability to imagine peace, equality, progress, and justice can express their dreams and hopes without fear.

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • World
  • Fear
  • Peace

• I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the best.

  

  Frank Lampard
  • Why
  • Player

• The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there are 21 groups of five notes in any group of seven notes. And although there are 12 sections, this piece actually uses nine of those groups because some of the sections repeat earlier ones. So that's the formula. It's very simple as a way of generating something. It's my inner minimalist.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Piano
  • Notes
  • Calculate

• You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position, calculate, or guess.

  

  Delphine de Vigan
  • Learn
  • Nothing
  • Demonstrate

• Writers often like to talk about how intuitive the writing process is, but in truth, building a book is a remarkably unintuitive task. Or, to put it more accurately, you need a lot more than intuition. You need plot and characters. You need a setting. You need a theme that is relevant and supported by your text.

  

  Rebecca Serle
  • Building
  • Characters
  • Intuition

• A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Trade
  • Markets
  • Battlefield

• I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Calculate
  • Accurately