Subtlety Quotes - Page 9

• I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.

  Prince Charles

  Thinking, Generosity, Imagination

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• Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse.

  William Raspberry

  Life, Moving, Loss

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• They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.

  Bernard Pivot

  Stress, Nuance, Language

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• After Theda Bara appeared in A Fool There Was, a vampire wave surged over the country. Women appeared in vampire gowns, pendant earrings, and even young girls were attempting to change from frank, open-eyed ingenues to the almond-eyed, carmine-lipped woman of subtlety and mystery.

  Mary Pickford

  Girl, Country, Vampire

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• For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to the subtlety of nature.

  Henry John Stephen Smith

  Class, Might, Cases

  Henry John Stephen Smith (1894). “Collected Mathematical Papers; Edited by J. W. L. Glaisher ... with a Mathematical Introduction by the Editor, Biographical Sketchesand a Portrait ...”

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• The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.

  Michael Foley

  Flower, Self, Imagination

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m I really working on the right thing, or once I put the solution in place I’m I going to get the benefit out of it, or is this masking some other underlying thing, whether it’s personal or what have you. I mean, I always get to that too because that’s the subtlety of problem selection.

  Dave Evans

  Mean, Problem, Solutions

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the general character of a picture; when these are well established, then I try for subtleties of form and color. I rework the painting constantly and freely, and without any systematic method.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Art, Character, Color

  From Corot's 'Notebooks', 1850. "Artists on Art, from the 14 to 20 Centuries". Book by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, pp. 240-241, 1972.

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• The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore more inclined to seek a rough settlement of difficulties without diplomatic subtlety and finesse. All that does not change the fact that American capitalism operates according to the same laws as the others, is confronted with the same fundamental problems, and is headed toward the same catastrophe.

  James P. Cannon

  Law, Land, Ignorant

  "Fascism and The Workers’ Movement". The Militant, www.marxists.org. March-April 1954.

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• I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

  Mira Nair

  Sweet, Important, Sound

  Interview with Amaya Rivera, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2007.

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• I have nothing against bombastic music, but when it comes to making albums, I'd prefer to make music that has a sort of vulnerable subtlety to it.

  Moby

  Albums, Vulnerable, Bombastic

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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• I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.

  Mark Twain

  Mean, Giving, Frozen

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• With acting, there are a lot of subtleties and non-verbals involved. If someone is over there, getting eaten by a shark, there's a non-verbal way of how to act that. There's a certain nuance to acting that does not come intuitively to me. It's something I still have to learn.

  Mark McGrath

  Sharks, Acting, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety and try to articulate every minute detail, or to go for the broad strokes and hope that the people will fill in between the lines. I tend to go for the broader strokes.

  Sylvester Stallone

  People, Choices, Trying

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

  Conrad Hall

  Cinema, Emotion, Metaphor

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• The best designs of all are organic, evolving from the subtleties of the ground they inhabit.

  Tom Doak

  Golf, Design, Evolve

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• A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

  T. S. Eliot

  Philosophy, Effort, Understanding

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• I love Tokio Hotel and their music, their makeup, their hairstyles and their subtlety.

  Lady Gaga

  Makeup, Hotel, Hairstyles

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• The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Reality, Economic

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• In the inheritance, I seek to dramatically distinguish between genuine, authentic Christianity on the one hand, and counterfeit, alternative spirituality on the other hand. One of my primary purposes is to demonstrate that there are two kingdoms operating in the earth today, the genuine, superior kingdom of Jesus Christ, which reigns supreme, and the counterfeit, occult kingdom of the enemy, which, through extreme subtlety, has led millions of deluded souls astray.

  Brian Williams

  Jesus, Hands, Two

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• He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before himself a masterpiece. True art was more than beauty; it was more than technique. It was not just imitation. It was boldness, it was contrast, it was subtlety.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Art, Men, Tears

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection”, p.119, Macmillan

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• This approach to voice is designed to liberate the natural voice and thereby develop a vocal technique that serves the freedom of human expression. The basic assumption of the work is that everyone possesses a voice capable of expressing, through a two- to four-octave natural pitch range, whatever gamut of emotion, complexity of mood, and subtlety of thought he or she experiences.

  Kristin Linklater

  Expression, Two, Voice

  Kristin Linklater (2006). “Freeing the Natural Voice: Imagery and Art in the Practice of Voice and Language”, Nick Hern Books

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• I've always had a desire to be provocative and to make people think, but it wouldn't be any challenge for me just to be shocking. That is where it begins for me, not where it stops. And I could be much more shocking. I think I've adopted a sense of subtlety. I don't sit around wondering how I can make myself even stranger to the world. I've simply evolved into the monster I created, and I'm quite happy with it.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, People, Challenges

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• In professional wrestling, I think that they want you to be bigger than life. It's almost like an over-acting type thing - whereas on the big screen, you're 35 feet and they've got a close-up of you to put it on the screen in the movie house. At 35 feet, it's more subtlety than the overboard drama that we do in pro wrestling.

  Kevin Nash

  Drama, Wrestling, Thinking

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 26, 2004.

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• If that one is already a great artist, who knows how to educe from a small piece of wood the face of a king or of a queen, an ant or a camel, how great then is the mastery which can form as actuality everything which is in all potentiality? Therefore, God, who is able to produce from the most minute piece of matter the similitude of all forms which can be in this world and in infinitely many worlds, is of admirable subtlety.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Kings, Queens, Artist

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