Elements Quotes - page 2

People think that creativity is largely a matter of talent, experience, or luck. They are wrong. Talent, experience, and luck are all key elements, but there is something more fundamental, accessible, and powerful that you can use to multiply your creative effect. (Richard Koch)
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty. View quote
Alfred Jarry
The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality. View quote
Arthur Miller
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. View quote
John Burroughs
In addition, a century or more of efforts to arrive at a feasible and politically acceptable mix of market and nonmarket elements has not produced a definitive, stable, or uniform solution. View quote
Robert A. Dahl
The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace? View quote
Arthur Henderson
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure. View quote
Alice Hoffman
To destroy wonder and mystery, is to destroy the only elements that make existence tolerable. View quote
Clark Ashton Smith
The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other. View quote
Mark Hopkins
Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three. (Asa Gray)
Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people. View quote
Brion James
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed. View quote
Federica Montseny
Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof. View quote
Ivan Reitman
It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful. View quote
Michael Bolton
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time. View quote
Peter Maxwell Davies
One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster. View quote
Vito Fossella
In lecturing on cookery, as on housebuilding, I divide the subject into, not four, but five grand elements: first, Bread; second, Butter; third, Meat; fourth, Vegetables; and fifth, Tea - by which I mean, generically, all sorts of warm, comfortable drinks served out in teacups, whether they be called tea, coffee, chocolate, broma, or what not. I affirm that, if these five departments are all perfect, the great ends of domestic cookery are answered, so far as the comfort and well-being of life are concerned. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths. View quote
Charles de Lint
The historic role of the Conservative Party is to use the leverage of its political and diplomatic skills to create a fresh balance between the different elements within the state at those times when, for one reason or another, their imbalance threatens to disrupt the orderly development of society. View quote
Edward Heath
1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are related to each other. This spacing is the simultaneously active and passive (the a of différance indicates this indecision as concerns activity and passivity, that which cannot be governed by or distributed between the terms of this opposition) production of the intervals without which the "full" terms would not signify, would not function. (Jacques Derrida)
How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there something in the scale of it? Was there some shadow in people, lusting for it? Or was it just a coincidental combination of the elements, the final proof that beauty has no moral dimension? View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water skins lying on the floor together with alabaster jars, whole and broken, and coloured pottery vases; all pertaining to some disturbed burial, but telling us nothing to whom they belonged further than by their type which was of the late XVIIIth Dyn. These were disturbing elements as they pointed towards plundering. View quote
Howard Carter
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land. View quote
Louis V. Gerstner