Loops Quotes - Page 3

• Playing inside the changes means playing enough of the important notes of the chord progression at important times. A good solo might be very free, but every once in a while it loops or hooks into an essential note that describes the harmonic change.

  Chuck Israels

  Mean, Important, Essentials

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• There are two ways of defending a castle; one by shutting yourself up in it, and guarding every loop-hole; the other by making it an open centre of operations from which all the surrounding country may be subdued. Is not the last the truest safety?

  Phillips Brooks

  Country, Two, Safety

  Phillips Brooks (2007). “The Purpose and Use of Comfort”, p.182, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep.

  John Milton

  Nice, Cabins, Holes

  John Milton, Thomas Warton (1799). “Comus,: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater, Then President of Wales”, p.53

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• The status quo is a product of our culture or our culture is a product of the status quo - I'm sure which is the effect and which is the product - there is probably a feedback loop there that is mutually reinforcing. But we have a culture that says "Hey, look around. This place called Earth was created for you and you can do anything you want with it."

  Ray Anderson

  Business, Culture, Looks

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• Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on

  Kevin Kelly

  Future, Technology, Vision

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• Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Writing, People, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You'd think people would realize they're bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great.

  Daniel Levitin

  Thinking, People, Multitasking

  Daniel Levitin (2015). “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload”, p.327, Penguin UK

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• It is, therefore, possible to extend a partially specified interpretation to a complete interpretation, without loss of verifiability... This fact offers the possibility of automatic verification of programs, the programmer merely tagging entrances and one edge in each innermost loop.

  Robert W. Floyd

  Loss, Facts, Possibility

  "Assigning Meanings to Programs" by Robert W. Floyd, published in "Proceedings of Symposium on Applied Mathematics", Volume 19 (p. 25), 1967.

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• Most movies shot in Italian don't even bother to record the sound. In fact, sometimes when Fellini works, he doesn't even know what the dialogue is going to be, and he simply has his characters count from 1 to 10, knowing he will loop in their dialogue later.

  Sean Connery

  Character, Italian, Knowing

  "Sean Connery Learns 'The Chicago Way'". Interview with Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. September 21, 1986.

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• Knitting is formed by a series of loops pulled through loops to the end of time or to 'desired length'. By picking up loops and working in the opposite direction you are really picking up the concavities between the loops, and it is sheer unexpected witchcraft that stocking stitch and garter stitch will permit such an anomaly. Be grateful for this and don't expect anymore.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Grateful, Opposites, Knitting

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• How circumstantial reality is! Facts are like individual letters, with their spikes and loops and thorns, that make up words: eventually they hurt our eyes, and we long to take a bath, to rake the lawn, to look at the sea.

  John Updike

  Hurt, Eye, Reality

  1989 Self-Consciousness, I.'A Soft Spring Night in Shillington'.

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• What will most certainly happen is that there will be very clear and full communication between the government and independents and minor parties. The precise mechanisms will evolve over time, but we certainly intend to keep the minor parties and the independents very much in the loop. We have to if we want our legislative agenda to have a reasonable chance of success and that's what we intend to do.

  Tony Abbott

  Party, Communication, Government

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.

  Tony Abbott

  Phones, Email, Eras

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.

  Al Pacino

  Believe, Waiting Around, People

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• When I first came into international running, most runners did about 60-70 miles or running a week. I guess that is still the standard except for Kenya and Ethiopia. I was doing 150-250 a week and some weeks as high as 350. It was unheard of! But, because I did not have access to what was possible and standard, I had to set my own possibilities and standards. I was just lucky enough to be out of the loop and not know.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Lucky, Kenya

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• Normally I do all my own post work. It's not that I do it better than anyone else, I just do it my way. I make decisions. People who print at labs are probably far better printers, but they won't make my decisions mid-process. I don't want to be out of the loop. I want to be a photographer and do all of it.

  Gregory Heisler

  People, Decision, Way

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• I am so out of the loop. I am never honored. My career is hilarious to me. I am either under the radar or over the radar.

  Joan Rivers

  Careers, Radar, Honored

  "Joan Rivers Hates You, Herself And Everyone Else". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 11, 2012.

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• Whether these characters are lovable or detestable, they're lovable or detestable in a TV way - defined by a minimal set of traits that are endlessly reiterated and incapable of expansion or alteration, a fixed loop.

  Jonathan Rosenbaum

  Character, Expansion, Way

  Jonathan Rosenbaum (2004). “Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons”, p.155, JHU Press

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• So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write

  George Lopez

  Beach, Writing, Grandmother

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• When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It's I.T. for life!

  Bill Crawford

  Stress, Anxiety, Stuck

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• One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and closets for the night. In the dark she had made a loop and tried to pull it tight around her throat. But always just as the air stopped coming and she felt the rushing grow louder in her ears, her hands would slacken and let go, and she would lie there panting for breath, cursing the dumb instinct in her body that fought to go on living

  Sylvia Plath

  Letting Go, Suicide, Lying

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• The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in the creation of novelty, and this novelty is often qualitatively different from the phenomenon out of which it emerged.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Differences, Environmental

  Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi (2014). “The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision”, p.319, Cambridge University Press

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• I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh. Nothing I did altered the automatic rhythm of the air. Delivered from gravity and buoyancy, I flew around in space.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Science, Air, Space

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• How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.

  Ian Mcewan

  Self, Guilt, Rosary

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• Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.

  Penelope Leach

  Baby, Giving, Newborn

  Penelope Leach (2013). “Your Baby and Child”, p.10, Knopf

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