Lukas Foss Quotes

The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.

Lukas Foss

• May

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• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • People
  • Failure
  • Plant

• The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Life
  • Real
  • Debate

• There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Love
  • Learning
  • Things

• I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Think
  • Always
  • Luck

• The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Look

• Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Choose
  • Abortion

• I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Children
  • Day

• So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Happiness

• Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Beginning
  • Painting
  • End

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• I've never been a calm, midrange type person.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Never
  • Person
  • Calm

• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Green
  • Favorite
  • Colors

• I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Fall

• When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Father
  • Myself

• I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Small
  • Imagination

• I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Believe
  • Man

• I've been an assistant to a folklorist and a teacher. There may or may not have been some sandwich-making at a certain sub chain in my past as well.

  

  John Corey Whaley
  • May
  • Past
  • Teacher

• Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Discipline

• The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Want
  • You
  • Pay

• No visitors shall yonder valley find. Except the spirits of the rain and wind: Here you must bide, my friends, with me entombed In this dim crypt, where shelved around us lie The mummied authors.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Friends
  • Wind
  • Rain

• The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.

  

  Lukas Foss
  • May