Style Quotes - Page 32

• A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not be a good style; a muddled one never is.

  Fred Brooks

  Design, May, Consistent

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• You can't copy style, you gotta create your own.

  Tatyana Ali

  Copies

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• Sinatra is the essence of vocal style. This man has an innate quality of knowing what is good musically. You can sum that up best by saying that he has musical integrity. Even when he does a bad song, there's a good quality in the presentation.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Song, Integrity, Men

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• Everybody has a great deal of experience in living. But no one lives in anything like the highest style of the art; and it is very disconcerting to notice how badly one lives in the sense of the extent to which fatigue and other discomforts are connected with one's important dealings with other people.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Art, People, Important

  Harry Stack Sullivan (2013). “The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry”, p.3, Routledge

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• What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Writing, Long, Waiting

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• People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter.

  Nick Thune

  Writing, Character, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The most inspiring drummer for me is Stewart Copeland from The Police. The Police are the first band I can remember really liking, and Copeland is a guy who was playing in sort of a rock band, or a rock-pop band, but he didn't want to do the traditional kind of rock drumbeat. He was doing all these kind of reggae rhythms, and the reggae style is almost an exact opposite of the rock mold of drumming.

  Panda Bear

  Rocks, Opposites, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I feel like I have become a living fossil in the fashion world. Without even noticing it, in my own collection I have moved away from the street style.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Fashion, Fossils, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was trying to run something to ground that had come to my attention when I was working on the Baroque Cycle. That series, of course, was about the conflict between Newton and Leibniz. Leibniz developed a system of metaphysics called monadology, which looked pretty weird at the time and was promptly buried by Newtonian-style physics.

  Neal Stephenson

  Running, Trying, Attention

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I try to find a style that matches the book. In the Baroque Cycle, I got infected with the prose style of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, which is my favorite era. It's recent enough that it is easy to read - easier than Elizabethan English - but it's pre-Victorian and so doesn't have the pomposity that is often a problem with 19th-century English prose. It is earthy and direct and frequently hilarious.

  Neal Stephenson

  Book, Trying, Eras

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can't just stick with one thing. You have to let your natural style come through, and paint what you naturally like to paint.

  Mark Gonzales

  Sticks, Natural, Paint

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been making 16mm urban landscape films about San Francisco for many years. I choose different nonfiction themes to investigate and am generally interested in surfacing lesser-known histories. I like to investigate and illuminate these histories, combining them with my own unconventional storytelling style, which is generally a stream-of-consciousness voiceover involving a steady stream of personal reflections on pining over unavailable women.

  Jenni Olson

  Reflection, Years, San Francisco

  "Sundance Women Directors: Meet Jenni Olson – ‘The Royal Road’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. January 25, 2015.

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• While the creative aspects of my filmmaking style are challenging in their own ways, I have developed such confidence and passion over the years that it has become much easier.

  Jenni Olson

  Passion, Years, Creative

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's important that public funds be spent in research directions that are pushing market frontiers rather than working in existing areas. This means funding research not only on drugs but also on areas like life-style changes, even if the profit potential is lower for Big Pharma as you cannot sell that change as you can sell a medicine.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Mean, Medicine, Drug

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style story is of limited use. A non-linear narrative that allows for increased complexity and depth, and encourages both subject and reader to have greater involvement, will eventually emerge more fully from the digital environment. This, in a sense, is the more profound democratization of media.

  Fred Ritchin

  Top Down, Media, Profound

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• I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, "Why is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?".

  Roger Ross Williams

  Community, Southern, Church

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• To acquire style, begin by affecting none.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Acquire

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• I like to make something beautiful when I run ... it's style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Beautiful, Running, Creative

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• Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that is all. For me, style - which does not exclude simplicity, quite the opposite - is above all a way of saying three or four things in one. There is the simple sentence, with its immediate meaning, and then at the same time, below this immediate meaning, other meanings are organized. If one is not capable of giving language this plurality of meaning, then it is not worth the trouble to write.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Writing, Simple, Thinking

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1978). “Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays”

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• Success isn't based on 'look what I can do!' but more on an inner sense of self and believing you have something to say in your own consistent way. And I think we all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.

  Ralph Lauren

  Believe, Fighting, Unique

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• You probably think Italians like meals with heavy meats and sauces, but they actually prefer light meats. They see turkey as a healthy, light white meat that lends itself excellently to their style of cooking, and they use it in many different ways. Also, Europeans do not celebrate Thanksgiving so they perceive turkey as an all-year round option.

  Todd English

  Thinking, Light, Years

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• Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst upon the scene with an impact that was unprecedented and will probably never be equaled. His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. His following was immense. And he was a symbol to people the world over of the vitality, rebelliousness and good humor of this country.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Unique, Years

  Statement by the President on the Death of Elvis Presley, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. August 17, 1977.

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• Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Reading, Writing, Vocabulary

  Stephen D. Krashen (2004). “The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research”, Libraries Unltd Incorporated

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• Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

  Tom Hayden

  Crime, Contagious, Officials

  Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

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• I pursue no intentions, no directions; I have no program, no style and no mission.

  Gerhard Richter

  Intention, Program, Missions

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