Elements Quotes

• Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

  Harlan Ellison

  Funny, Life, Stupid

  Harlan Ellison, Arnie Fenner (2011). “Bugf#ck: The Useless Wit & Wisdom of Harlan Ellison”

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  The most violent element in society is ignorance.

  Emma Goldman

  Peace, Educational, Book

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.33, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fashion, Meditation, Silence

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.161, Univ of California Press

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• Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

  Leonard Cohen

  Political, Pieces, Social

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• By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

  John Dewey

  Distinction, Complexes, Whole

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Paul Kurtz (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930”, p.246, SIU Press

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• Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Special, Horror, Psychological

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

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• The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

  Heinrich Heine

  People, Envy, Literature

  "Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts".

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• Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Our Society, Irresistible, Attraction

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• In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

  Franz Kafka

  Happiness, Laughter, Believe

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

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• To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mean, Reality, Dollars

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• One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Teaching, Listening, Important

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• Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

  Tim Robbins

  Unique, Creating, Vision

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• It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.

  Hu Shih

  Relative Value, Contact, Understood

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• I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

  Robert Smithson

  Art, Direct Effect, Accounts

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.

  Donna Tartt

  Long, Together, Different

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• From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

  Donnie Yen

  Actors, Dynamics, Directors

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• Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is.

  Ron Ziegler

  Trying, May, Certain

  "Nixon Press Secretary Ron Ziegler Dead at 63" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. February 11, 2003.

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• I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

  David Hobson

  Patience, Eye, Garden

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• The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

  Leo Kottke

  Boys, Risk, Principles

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• Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

  Denis Waitley

  Success, Time, Precious Stones

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• There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.

  Peter Noone

  Song, Sunset, Hands

  "Proud Hermit: The British Invasion’s Peter Noone". Interview with Al Carlos Hernandez, www.heralddeparis.com. May 22, 2011.

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• Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society.

  Vito Fossella

  Lebanon, Cows, Obstacles

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• When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

  Natalie Cole

  Men, Disappointed, Humans

  "Natalie Cole: Faith in Her Heavenly Father". Interview with Kristi Watts, www.cbn.com.

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• Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, konnecting people.

  Brion James

  People, Together

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