Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
Man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.
Gary Hamel
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It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me.' Being popular is poison.
Zach Galifianakis
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When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding.
Harmony Korine
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Since the form is only an expression of the content and the content is different with different artists, it is then clear that there can be many different forms at the same time which are equally good. Necessity creates the form. Fish which live at great depths have no eyes. The elephant has a trunk. The chameleon changes its color, and so forth.
Wassily Kandinsky
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I've gotten a lot more comfortable with the audition process, but there's something that really turned me off initially when I was younger, to auditioning. The idea that I couldn't get to the person that was actually making the film really frustrated me.
Amy Seimetz
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Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.
Jimmy Stewart
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Who can rest until the moment of action?
Lao Tzu
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That holy, humble, meek, modest, retiring Form, sometimes called the Spirit of Prayer, has been dragged from the closet, and so rudely handled by some of her professed friends, that she has not only lost all her wonted loveliness, but is now stalking the street, in some places, stark mad.
Asahel Nettleton
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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao Tzu
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Without God man has no reference point to define himself.
R. C. Sproul
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The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
Lao Tzu
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Man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining.
Florence Scovel Shinn