Seeing Quotes - Page 24

• Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

  Peter Hammill

  Art, Lying, Thinking

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• Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

  Tom Hanks

  Reading, Different, Scripts

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• The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

  Jack Hanna

  Eye, Important, World

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• The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods.

  Stephen Harper

  Positive, Jobs, Recovery

  "Postmedia News" Interview, nationalpost.com. January 12, 2011.

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• They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.

  Salma Hayek

  Happy Friday, Role Models, Directors

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• All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Time, Writing, Vision

  Ernest Hemingway (1981). “Selected Letters, 1917-1961”

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• Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Light, World, Way

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). “I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.

  Bill Hicks

  Running, America, People

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• Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

  James Hillman

  Depression, Dysfunction, Cold

  "The Soul Of Winter: A Call To Deepen" by Dr. Judith Rich, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2009.

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• I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Strong, Catholic

  "Damien Hirst: 'I felt the power of art from a very young age'". Interview with Hannah Marriott, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2013.

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• Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Funny, Death, Sarcastic

  Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Gottlieb (1997). “Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.58, Univ of California Press

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• But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.

  David Hockney

  Taken, Ordinary, Use

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. 2004.

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• You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Careers, Acting, Actors

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman Interview - DOUBT". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 21, 2008.

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• I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.

  Simon Hoggart

  Home, Thinking, People

  "Simon Hoggart's week: a stalking horse from the same stable" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

  Douglas Horton

  Im Sorry, Selfish, I Am Sorry

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• Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

  Douglas Horton

  Thinking, Example, Deeds

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• Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

  Douglas Horton

  Love, Eye, Hatred

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• I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

  Steve Irwin

  Education, Motivation, Believe

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• I'm so happy people are seeing the eclectic side of me. I'm really honored to be able to push my voice into different sounds. Otherwise it all gets a bit samey same.

  Jessie J

  Voice, People, Sound

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.

  Jesse Jackson

  Heart, Opportunity, Race

  "Jesse Jackson on Obama: 'He struggled to create hope - and succeeded'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2012.

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• Don’t wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary “what if” scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.

  Naveen Jain

  Real, Filling Up, Ideas

  "Dear Entrepreneur: Stop Dreaming And Launch That Business" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2011.

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• Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

  Barbara Januszkiewicz

  Art, Expression, Musical

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• I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

  Joan Jett

  Song, Thinking, Rocks

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

  Elton John

  Country, Gay, People

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• By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

  Samuel Johnson

  Travel, World, London

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.429

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