Making Quotes
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I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.
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God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.
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For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.
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Freedom... refers to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.
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And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.
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when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.
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I was always screwing around with music, but I really wanted to go to film school when I was in high school. I guess what happened was that I didn't get into Tisch, that's what happened. I got deferred. And I went to Hampsire and ended up making music like everybody else there.
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My intention always has been to arrive at human contact without enforcing authority. A musician, after all, is not a mili- tary officer. What matters most is human contact. The great mys- tery of music making requires real friendship among those who work together. Every member of the orchestra knows I am with him and her in my heart.
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I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up.
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Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
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A man who does not make mistakes does not make anything
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It is instructive to see how organizations pursue their goal of reducing errors and uncertainty. They impose standards, employ checklists, demand that knowledge workers list assumptions for their conclusions and document all sources. These actions either directly interfere with forming insights or create an environment where insights and discoveries are treated with suspicion because they might lead to errors. They signal to knowledge workers that their job is not to make mistakes. Even if they don't make discoveries, no one can blame them as long as they don't make mistakes.
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Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.
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Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
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If you have good stocks and you really know them, you'll make money if you're patient over three years or more.
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Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.
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There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.
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Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.
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There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are.
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How can you develop a self-concept linked to your untapped potential? First, you can decide on the kind of life you would like to lead in ten or fifteen years. This will give you a standard for making decisions about current activities and will reduce the inclination to compare yourself unfavorably to others. Learn to ask, "How would I handle this situation were I the person I hope to become?" And then take action in line with your vision.
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You've got all these people making action movies, and they've never been in a life-or-death situation.
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You know, boy versus girl. But she's a tough warrior, so I almost treated it like unisex. But it makes a difference how tall the actors are, because I needed to know that if Olivia Wilde sits in a car that the director, Joe Kosinski can still get the angle he wants, as opposed to maybe in another vehicle than Jeff Bridges has to sit in. So that was fascinating. Because in a real car you change everything and adjust it. But here you have one shot.
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In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money — it’s always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won’t be discovered for another hundred years? I’ll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need.
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If something's important to you, you make time for it.
