The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. — Robert Brustein Copy Share Image
I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I read everywhere. It's like a bodily function. I don't need quiet. I write and read with the TV on. I follow… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions. — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
A lot of people in this country are obese because of a form of malnutrition. One thing I'd like to do is… — Lori Silverbush Copy Share Image
The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To be enlightened doesn't mean you end up stupefied and unable to function. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working. — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I'm always playing a role, whether it's the role of the mayor, the role of a news anchor, or a role of… — Jerry Springer Copy Share Image
In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Its such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, Im… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children? — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“The wave quality of light is the same as that of the electron. The wave determines the probable location of the photon… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
No matter how closely we look, it is difficult to find a mental act that can take place without the support of… — Moshe Feldenkrais Copy Share Image
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