Makers Quotes - Page 27

• We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of a happy life is within us. Trouble makers in many parts of the world are often quite well educated, so it is not just education that we need. We need to pay attention to inner values.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy Life, Needs, Attention

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• Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

  David Hare

  Farewell, Thinking, Europe And America

  "David Hare pays tribute to Philip French". www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2013.

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• Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame game which he played to her.

  Johannes Kepler

  Games, Play, History

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• Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Opportunity, Men, Visions Of The Future

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• It's only through effort that we learn what an idea actually is, and if our passion for it will last or fade. There is no shame in failure - all makers fail. But it's hard to respect someone who never tries, even once, to do something good that's always on their mind. If you're worried about how good your idea is, you're worrying about the wrong thing.

  Scott Berkun

  Passion, Ideas, Worry

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• Compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedes and trade stocks, and less likely to go to church, do volunteer work or put down roots in a community. Journalists are over-represented in ZIP code areas where residents are twice as likely as other Americans to rent foreign movies, drink Chablis, own an espresso maker and read magazines such as Architectural Digest and Food & Wine.

  John Leo

  Wine, Espresso, Roots

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• Art can mean a lot of things. At the heart of it, art is doing something you really believe in. Like my wife, she volunteers helping underprivileged kids, that's her art. To me, anything that you do that you truly believe in makes you an artist. It doesn't necessarily mean being a painter or a film maker. That's art, but there's more to it than that. As long as you're pouring your heart and soul into what you're doing, that's the weapon.

  Ray Toro

  Art, Believe, Mean

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• Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

  Guy Davenport

  Art, Attention, Exhausted

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• I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat more. It feels more 'done' when your hair is up.

  Zara Phillips

  Hair, Should Have, Done

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• Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Artist, Tough

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• Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Keys, Research, Enthusiasm

  "Speaker interview: Aubrey de Grey". www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• A European brewery has purchased Anheuser-Busch, the makers of Budweiser, for $52 billion. Which is a a shame because if they had waited until happy hour, they could have paid half that.

  Conan O'Brien

  Budweiser, Half, Shame

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• Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.

  Margaret Catley-Carlson

  Water, Decision, Risk

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• A Crime So Monstrous is a remarkably brave and unflinching piece of reportage and storytelling. Ben Skinner bears witness, sharing stories so unsettling, so neglected, so chilling they will leave you shaking with anger. This should be required reading for policy makers around the world - and, for that matter, anyone concerned about the human condition.

  Alex Kotlowitz

  Reading, Brave, Sharing Stories

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• If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Book, People

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• To live as God's child is to know that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more.

  Max Lucado

  Children, Father, Trying

  Max Lucado (2012). “Wild Grace: What Happens When Grace Happens”, p.141, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We have a society where every hit maker and TV presenter is gay.

  Elton John

  Gay, Tvs, Presenter

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2006.

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• It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.

  Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

  Law, Opposites, Action

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• Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Wrath, Hymns

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.65, Delphi Classics

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• the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Rosary, Plowing, Firsts

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1313, Library of Alexandria

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• We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sex, War, Earthquakes

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• I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Thinking, Office

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “Lincoln on Lincoln”, p.71, University Press of Kentucky

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• Think not thou canst sigh a sigh
  And thy maker is not by;
  Think not thou canst weep a tear
  And thy maker is not near.

  William Blake

  God, Thinking, Tears

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.60, Routledge

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• The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Islands, Jamaica, Perfect

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.129, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• ... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

  Carolyn Wells

  Eye, Library, Wish

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