249 quotes found
“His world was small, an illiterate county seat, a backward state, though from it he fashioned something greater, far greater perhaps than he ever knew. A writer cannot really grasp what he has writ...”
“I know its totally senseless to attempt to write something 'great' in a time where people seem mostly concerned with bashing each other heads in, there's only 1 bestseller a year that a 12 year old...”
“I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.”
“Like every dreamer, I've always felt that my calling was to create. Since I've never been able to make an effort or carry out an intention, creation for me has always meant dreaming, wanting or des...”
“Seeing is 'making,' whether you see with your mind or your true self. Try to see with your self, your self and your beast together, and not your busy, frightened mind.”
“Creating something is only half the battle. The other half is finding people who care about it.”
“What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.”
“I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.”
“Democrats creating the expectation that judges should act as politicians in robes is a dangerous precedent to set, threatening the very independence of the judiciary.”
“Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.”
“Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed ...”
“Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.”
“You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot.”
“When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.”
“Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, No, Im not interested. I believe that each reader creates his own film inside hi...”
“Life is not about finding your true self, but creating who you wish to be.”
“The reality is that changes are coming. ... They must come. You must share in bringing them.”
“After you've done a thing the same way for two years look it over carefully. After five years look at it with suspicion. And after ten years throw it away and start all over.”
“All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it.”
“If you have no will to change it you have no right to criticize it.”