Familiarity Quotes - Page 9

• I was a little worried that the familiarity would be a little weird, but I think for me everything is musical in my life. For me, timing is a rhythm.

  Sandra Bullock

  Thinking, Musical, Littles

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• We became more familiar with [Bernard Leach], and with this familiarity came, I wouldn't say contempt, but certainly an awareness that everything that he said was not necessarily what we were thinking. That doesn't mean it was wrong, but Leach was a person out of a different generation.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Mean, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Familiarity isn't always a good thing... sometimes you need a little crisis to shake things up.

  Karl Hyde

  Needs, Littles, Sometimes

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• I always use familiarity in my music, whether it's in my song writing or whatever.

  SonReal

  Song, Writing, Use

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities that come up, but actors are their own animal.

  Rick Heinrichs

  Real, Artist, Animal

  Source: collider.com

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• It's just a blessing. Artists search and search for songs that will connect for a new artist because the familiarity is so low. People don't know what you look like. It's just so unbelievable to find a song that people are relating to. To have a song that people will actually pick up the phone and call the station to ask. It's a blessing.

  Rodney Atkins

  Song, Artist, Blessing

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• Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.

  Martha Rosler

  Photography, Manipulation, Shows

  Martha Rosler (2004). “Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001”, p.262, MIT Press

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• I don't need exotic places to be stimulated. Out of familiarity comes nuance. The more you revisit a subject the more you're like to discover.

  Ray Metzker

  Exotic Places, Needs, Nuance

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• It's very easy to attack ourselves. Even comforting in its familiarity, but you must resist this urge at all costs. Dwelling on the past or your perceived flaws will do nothing but keep you under emotional house arrest and hamper your progress. Commit yourself to growth and reward yourself with kindness for choosing to do so!

  Chris Hardwick

  Kindness, Past, Emotional

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.225, Penguin

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• When I first arrived (in New York), it seemed to me the most terrifying city in the world... all those big buildings. I remember walking on Broadway, looking up at this huge, mountainous place-and being so lonely. But things started to clear up when I met a few people on the street whom I'd met before-all of a sudden there got to be a certain familiarity about the place, and the terror kind of evaporated. There was a lot of playing going on, and the New Yorkers, of course, were a completely different crowd from what I'd known.

  Benny Goodman

  Lonely, New York, Cities

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• Familiarity gives rise to contempt.

  Aesop

  Giving, Contempt

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• What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.

  Brian Christian

  Tests, Failing, Construction

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• There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.

  Andy Grove

  Senior, Zero, Devil

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• Familiarity breeds democracry.

  Florence King

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• You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show.

  Alia Shawkat

  Tv Shows, Tvs, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• There is this whole level of communication that I think our generation and younger is used to that does have this weird effect on people. It creates a familiarity that is possibly not always justified. I think that's interesting and I think it's nice to be able to incorporate it into films, because most of us can relate to that now.

  Duncan Jones

  Nice, Communication, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.

  Feist

  Grateful, Chance

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I'm pretty grounded in a lifestyle which disciplines me and gives me a sense of familiarity and comfort.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Discipline, Giving, Comfort

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• Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.

  Terence McKenna

  Understanding, Psychedelic, Should

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• I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices.

  Mario Batali

  Thinking, Southern, Spices

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• The great thing about cinema is that it's a great binder. It brings people from across the world together, often erasing the lines between geographies, languages, familiarity, and the like. Cinema is art and art, they say, is a reflection of life and society, so the way we tell our stories is the main differentiator for me.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Art, Reflection, People

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• Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Mind, Arrogance

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islamic region. In view of all that the Jews had been through, it must have seemed a fair and humane solution. Probably deep familiarity with the Old Testament had given the European and American decision-makers some sort of idea that this really was the historic homeland of the Jews.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Islamic, Ideas

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Life, Travel, Real

  "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America".

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• Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

  Edith Wharton

  Facts, Wells, Knows

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Touchstone: American Literature”, p.66, VM eBooks

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