Initials Quotes - Page 5

• Courage is required to make an initial thrust towards ones coveted goal, But even greater courage is called for when one stumbles and must make a second effort to achieve.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Goal, Effort, Achieve

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• I've got pages and pages of snippets of stuff, and if Max [Hershenow] sends me a track to write to I'll go through all the stuff and the initial reaction of gut and how it makes me feel and I'll sort of go from there and start pulling my favourite pieces of my lyrics and that will be a very literal word collage and from there I'll sculpt it for and whatever reason the song sort of presents itself. It's a bizarre process.

  Lizzy Plapinger

  Song, Writing, Track

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• Everyone's [ me, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty] equally involved in all the writing. Normally we'll start with a sample or a drumbeat, or a synth sound or something like that, and that will spark the initial idea. And then we'll write an instrumental sketch of a song, and then we put on a nonsense vocal melody, which is always my favourite bit because it obviously sounds amazing.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.

  Martha Stewart

  Dream, Teacher, Thinking

  "Power house". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. October 22, 2006.

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• Use and respond to the initial fresh qualities but consider them absolutely expendable.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Quality, Use, Expendables

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• I still do one song by myself onstage. it gives people the extremely personal thing where it's just me on guitar. But, I think the songs are better as a band. I think with all of the extra little hooks and backing vocals, it just adds to what my initial idea was.

  Butterfly Boucher

  Song, Thinking, Guitar

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• You know that one don't play music just for the hours to pass. But you play music because you are in love with music and luckily if it happens that people like what I'm proposing, then I'm happy. Although music is business, yet you don't start thinking about money from the initial stages when you are in music. First propose to the people what they want and if they like it, then the money comes later.

  Manu Dibango

  Thinking, Play, People

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• My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

  Elvis Costello

  Children, Dad, Thinking

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• Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the song and the initial inspiration.

  M. Ward

  Song, Inspiration, Giving

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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• "There is no analysis here," the most brutal of them wrote. Now I wonder if my papers lacked critical thought, or if it was really more about my inability/refusal to write in the convoluted style that they wanted me to. I remember the initial shock upon reading my peers' papers. I seriously could not understand them, and I couldn't understand why the writing had to be so unclear in order to be considered smart.

  Mary J. Miller

  Smart, Reading, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We use the Air Force analogy: there were expensive things they had to do to get a cockpit suitable for a lot of pilots, like wraparound windshields, but their initial solutions, when they realized average didn't work, were adjustable seats. How in the world did they not already have adjustable seats in their planes? We're looking for adjustable seats for education, for basic things that we can do.

  L. Todd Rose

  Air, Average, World

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The Sarah Palin choice both its timing and the fact that it was her, it was really an audacious strategic move by the McCain campaign to try to change the trajectory of the 2008 presidential race and the initial launch was very successful. She didn`t withstand the scrutiny very well though and the close questioning.

  Rachel Maddow

  Moving, Successful, Race

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• An initial impulse of mine was to portray the way in which a city is impacted by war. But this is vague, no? After all, how do you actually have an entire city - or country, for that matter - be a character a reader can follow? One way is by making it smaller and personalizing it, by writing specifically about the citizens and the way they contend with the reality, even minutiae, especially minutiae, of their lives.

  Said Sayrafiezadeh

  Country, War, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine. But all that initial creation of the early drafts, I'd just as soon write it on the road in any extreme place. That's sort of ideal.

  Pam Houston

  Book, Home, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I remember the initial genesis quite clearly. My interest in dreams comes from this notion of realizing that when you dream you create the world that you are perceiving, and I thought that feedback loop was pretty amazing.

  Christopher Nolan

  Dream, World, Remember

  Christopher Nolan, Jonah Nolan (2010). “Inception: The Shooting Script”, p.8, Insight Editions

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• The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so outlandish as to be seen as illegitimate from the start.

  Robert Cialdini

  Yield, Finals, Opponents

  Robert B. Cialdini (1985). “Influence: Science and Practice”, Scott Foresman

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• I think [The Outsiders] really forged who I am as an actor, and it's one of the reasons why I keep being drawn to big ensembles where I'm surrounded by strong, successful actors or personalities. Because that was my initial foray into movie making.

  Rob Lowe

  Strong, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The voice of God does not pander, offers no five-year plan, no long-term
  solution, nary an edict. It is small & fond & local. Don't look for your initials in the geese
  honking overhead or to see thru the glass even darkly. It says the most obvious crap - put down that gun, you need a sandwich.

  Mary Karr

  Gun, Years, Voice

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the point where the differences in the brain are going to just be a personality variant and, like, for very mild Asperger's. But you get into more severe kinds of autism where there's obvious speech delay, obvious abnormal behavior in a two and three-year-old child, you know, the initial neurology is different from case to case. But all children with autism are going to do better if they get really good educational intervention.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Educational, Two

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• The impact of QE on generating more lending by Wall Street to Main Street and in generating more employment and increasing overall investment in the economy is quite modest. QE probably limited the initial collapse of the economy in 2008, and likely had a very small positive impact on economic growth, but its broader impact on jobs and growth in the economy seems not very big.

  Gerald Epstein

  Jobs, Wall, Impact

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.

  Emily Giffin

  Grief, World, Way

  Emily Giffin (2015). “Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue”, p.307, St. Martin's Griffin

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• In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.

  Roland Barthes

  Photography, Order, Notable

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• I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

  Abdallah II

  Country, Thinking, Sweat

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• What I said yesterday didn't mean anything! I love everyone in the flock! Plus, it was the Valium talking!" "Uh-huh. You just keep telling yourself that. You looove me." Max: (tries to punch him) "Pick a tree. I'll go carve our initials in it." Max: (screams and runs into bathroom)

  James Patterson

  Running, Mean, Yesterday

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• What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.

  Clarice Lispector

  Want, Made, Humans

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