Collections Quotes - Page 23

• Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.

  C. West Churchman

  Information, Matter, Users

  "Decision Support Systems: Frequently Asked Questions" by Daniel J. Power, (p. 23), 2004.

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• It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.

  Idries Shah

  People, Desire, Common

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• Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections

  L.P. Hartley

  Would Be, Stories, Short Story

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• New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on books that they have not even read, with assuredness of Jehova.

  James Purdy

  New York, Book, Broken

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Science is a collection of successful recipes.

  Paul Valery

  Successful, Recipes

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• Sometimes when I'm writing I'll play Cole Porter, just because the rhythms and the lyrics are so perfect that it's like having a smart partner in the room. I have a huge collection of music that I listen to when I'm writing, and I also prepare a lot of music before I start directing. I put it all onto an iPod that I have with me on the set. It's helpful to the actors, because for an emotional scene, I'll play it and say, this is how it feels, to keep us in the zone.

  Nancy Meyers

  Smart, Writing, Emotional

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• Don't try to impress God with your works" or "Don't attempt to please God with your merits" or "Don't try to keep the rules and regulations in order to earn your salvation." He looked around at nearly slumbering collections of utterly casual Christians and wondered, "Who's trying?

  Martin E. Marty

  Christian, Order, Trying

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• I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement quotes) that add up to a quantifiable, certain, confidently known, truth. It is a mysterious and malleable thing.

  Ken Burns

  Events, Add, Realization

  "Commencement Address at Washington University in St. Louis" by Ken Burns, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2015.

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• I get sent Bibles. I have a collection of about 20 in my room. People think I need to be guided.

  Emma Watson

  Thinking, People, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I built a studio in my house so I can be with my kids. I go out to my approval meetings [for my collection] while they nap, but at least I can sing [at home] while they sleep at night.

  Jessica Simpson

  Home, Sleep, Kids

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• I don't do heroin myself, but it's done wonders for my music collection.

  Bill Maher

  Done, Wonder, Heroin

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• I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.

  Yolanda Adams

  Christian, Growing Up, Fun

  "Yolanda Adams 'How Sweet The Sound'". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. October 23, 2012.

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• The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection. Having got the plants, the great thing is to use them with careful selection and definite intention.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Garden, Numbers, Doe

  Gertrude Jekyll (1964). “On Gardening”

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• You're always in the mode of creating the next season. It's so fast, and in two months, the collection you just did is already old, and it's always next, next, next.

  Jason Wu

  Two, Creating, Next

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I woke up one day and I was like, "I don't have anything to save for myself for the future." That's when I started archiving things. I take four or five things that are really key to each collection, and I restore them or, in some cases, remake parts of them, and archive them.

  Jason Wu

  Keys, One Day, Archives

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I realized the importance of archiving. So I save key pieces from my collections, as well as any red-carpet things that become iconic. I always ask for that stuff back. I'm like, "It's going in my archives."

  Jason Wu

  Keys, Archives, Pieces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If we mix only a moderate minority share of turds with the raisins each year, probably no one will recognize what will ultimately become a very large collection of turds.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Minorities, Share

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• The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.

  Azzedine Alaia

  Fashion, Crazy, Thinking

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• When I'm lying in bed I think about the next collection. That makes me sound insane, doesn't it? That I'm getting into bed with David Beckham and thinking about clothes.

  Victoria Beckham

  Lying, Thinking, Clothes

  "Victoria Beckham: I used to feel famous, but now I feel successful". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2014.

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• I always wanted to create a collection inspired by sports. I never played sports, maybe that's why it intrigues me.

  Alexander Wang

  Sports, Inspired, Intrigue

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• I'm working 24 hours a day. I have had a house in Tunisia for 20 years, and I never have time to go because there are collections, fittings.

  Azzedine Alaia

  Years, House, Tunisia

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• The Universe is not a collection of objects, but is an inseparable web of vibrating energy patterns in which no one component has reality independently from the entirety. Included in the entirety is the observer.

  Paul Davies

  Reality, Energy, Patterns

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• I hope that when girls see my clothes, my shoes, or my outrageous jewelry collection, they feel the thrill of wanting more for themselves too. I love what my friend Andre Leon Talley said: "If you are successful, people want to see it. They want to share in your dream".

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Girl, Dream, Successful

  Kimora Lee Simmons (2009). “Fabulosity: What It Is & How to Get It”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• I feel best in soft and natural materials such as cotton and silk. I wear collections from all designers. They all have outstanding cuts and extremely pleasant materials.

  Laetitia Casta

  Cutting, Cotton, Designer

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• Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines, collections, so forth and so on. The felt experience of the body is what the psychedelics are handing back to us.

  Terence McKenna

  Loyalty, Political, Inanimate Objects

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