Parameters Quotes - Page 4

• The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

  Ehud Olmert

  Numbers, Borders, Jerusalem

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• There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Games, Play, Skills

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 119), 1991.

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• Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind.

  Paul Russo

  Creating, Leaving, Genius

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• The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of music....The point is not to hold up Beethoven as exceptionally monstrous. The Ninth Symphony is probably our most compelling articulation in music of the contradictory impulses that have organized patriarchal culture since the Enlightenment. Moreover, within the parameters of his own musical compositions, he may be heard as enacting a critique of narrative obligations that is...devestating.

  Susan McClary

  Symphony, Musical, Enlightenment

  "Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality". Book by Susan McClary, 1991.

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• Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting.

  Mike Leigh

  Insecure, Acting, Needs

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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• The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  War, World, Classical Music

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've never seen a candidate - I've never seen a human being - who, with the most limited briefing, can understand the dimensions, the parameters, the nuances of everything of any kind of a policy or political problem.

  James Carville

  Political, Dimensions, Nuance

  "Clinton". www.pbs.org. February 20, 2012.

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• Screenwriting involves an often un-personal process. Co-writers, directors, producers, everyone has a say in what you put on a page, and stories are constantly changing according to budget, actors, and commercial needs. Films are a collaborative process and are also inherently narrative and structured, so you are always working within very tight parameters. Short fiction unleashes a more intimate voice and a passion for language. I believe short narratives can have the same amount of danger and drama as any action film.

  Chiara Barzini

  Drama, Believe, Passion

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• I never planned to be at the height of my career when I was 30 years old and going to my fourth Olympics. I watched the 1998 Olympics when I was 14 years old. That's what I wanted to do with my life. I thought I might have a shot at three Olympics max. This is way beyond the parameters of what I set out to do.

  Kelly Clark

  Years, Careers, Max

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness

  Narendra Modi

  Beautiful, Cities, Focus

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• I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended.

  John Cage

  Musical, Sound, Duration

  John Cage (2010). “M: Writings ’67–’72”, p.153, Wesleyan University Press

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• With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

  David Byrne

  Thinking, Age, Degrees

  "David Byrne: 'It feels like the end of history in pop music'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2012.

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• I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.

  Denise Mina

  Feet, Fiction, Crime

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• I know what I want. I try and convey that at the beginning and set that out, but within those parameters, I'm very happy for them to experiment and try things and give it a go. To me, it's important.

  Dan Mazer

  Giving, Important, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• If everything is going very well in your life, don't change any parameters; don't even think about it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Change, Thinking

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• If some things aren't going well, do something; never wait for the things to be ok by themselves! Do something; change the direction, change the parameters, change the criteria, change anything you wish to change! To change is to create a new destiny! Remember, you have thousands of different destinies; change is your instrument to switch from one destiny to another! Remember, you have thousands of different destinies!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Change, Destiny, Remember You

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• It would be naïve to suggest the Iranian regime will not continue to use its nuclear program, and any economic relief, to further destabilize the region, in the weeks ahead, Republicans and Democrats in Congress will continue to press the Obama administration on the details of these parameters and the tough questions that remain unanswered. We will stand strong on behalf of the American people and everyone in the Middle East who values freedom, security, and peace.

  John Boehner

  Peace, Strong, Freedom

  "Obama administration claims Iran deal a ‘forever agreement,’ despite expiration dates". www.foxnews.com. April 06, 2015.

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• People will set a New Year's resolution: "I'm gonna get in shape this year." But they don't set a parameter for how they're gonna measure it. Or if they do measure it, they wait until the first day of the next year. You'd never run a business that way. Document your progress.

  Jack LaLanne

  Running, New Year, Years

  Source: billphillipsnews.com

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• I love to read about music and about art, but I don't try and take things about mythology or guidelines as to how I'm to behave as an artist. It's the realm of intellectual debate. Actually, more and more my direction is trying to get further away from being self-conscious of what the parameters are of the mainstream, where it intersects with the underground.

  Emily Haines

  Art, Self, Intellectual

  Source: www.sfcritic.com

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• We're constantly dealing with old problems under the circumstance of new variables, so just things like greed and fear and anger and inequality are issues that humanity has constantly dealt with. The parameters and the variables change but these are old things. And discussing those things is slightly more timeless rather than focusing on one tiny thing.

  Dan Mangan

  Old Things, Issues, Greed

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• Film writing and concert writing are two very different things. In film writing I am serving the film and it tells you what to write. I have to stay within the parameters of the film. In writing concert music for the stage I can write anything I want and in this day and modern age rules can be broken.

  Aaron Zigman

  Writing, Two, Broken

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• Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to Government which, through force, will set the parameters of your life.

  Brian Wilson

  Exercise, Government, Self

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• Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

  Anthony Giddens

  Risk, Apocalypse, Existence

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.189, John Wiley & Sons

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• A 'living constitution' is a dead constitution, because it does not do the one and only thing a written constitution is supposed to do: provide parameters around the power of officials.

  Kevin Gutzman

  Doe, Constitution, Written

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• Even before I had children I wanted the intensity of my life to get greater. I wanted to feel things more strongly. I wanted my intellectual parameters to expand. But it comes back to your own desire to be engaged and to live up to your parameters.

  Jeff Koons

  Children, Intellectual, Desire

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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