Making Quotes

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Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then… — Terry Pratchett
Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our… — Kurt Vonnegut
Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. — Ray Bradbury
Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others. — Philip K. Dick
To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something youâ€™d… — Stephen Shore
I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didnâ€™t feel like taking something in the world and making a piece… — Stephen Shore
I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The… — Elliott Smith
The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion.... — James Madison
The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention. — John Quincy Adams
My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep… — Lynn Johnston
My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an… — Lincoln Steffens
Workingmen are at the foundation of society. Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share,… — Samuel Gompers
A lot of people do things out of fear. A lot of people make choices [based on thinking] they wonâ€™t have a career in five… — Katy Perry
The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does notâ€”which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making… — Carl Jung
It will seem as if you were making the visions banal â€” but then you need to do that â€” then you are freed from… — Carl Jung
The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a… — B.F. Skinner
Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and… — William James
Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words. — Elizabeth Hardwick
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own… — Max Horkheimer

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