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• The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.

  Charles Garfield

  Belief, Standing Out, Performers

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• The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, one notes a decline in collective enthusiasm due to the effect of a quantitative diminution in each of the elements that make up the mass. Work is paralyzed until it is reduced to an insignificant level. It is time to make a correction.

  Che Guevara

  Mistake, Enthusiasm, Sometimes

  "Socialism and Man in Cuba". www.marxists.org. March 12, 1965.

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• A fish swims in the ocean, and no matter how far it swims there is no end to the water. A bird flies in the sky, and no matter how far it flies there is no end to the air. However the fish and the bird have never left their elements. Thus each of them totally covers its full range, and each of them totally experiences its realm... Know that water is life and air is life. The bird is life and the fish is life. Life must be the bird and life must be the fish... practice, enlightenment and people are like this.

  Dogen

  Ocean, Practice, Sky

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• When I wrote Wakolda at first I wasn't conscious that I was writing about something so close to or that had so many similar elements with XXY. It was just after I was done writing that I noticed it. I think both teenagers in each film have many similarities, and Mengele is the extreme version of the plastic surgeon in XXY. Both stories definitely have several ideas connecting them.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Teenager, Writing, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think it's absolutely fantastic to give the combination of the major structural element for the growth of a filmmaker. It's technical know-how, some money to get on with it, and the dream that he can always grow.

  Jihan El-Tahri

  Dream, Thinking, Giving

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The most important part of filmmaking is the collaboration and the ensemble element of it. If you just all focus on the task and the work and try and make the best film that you can then people will come.

  Nina Jacobson

  People, Focus, Trying

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.

  David Shrigley

  Want, Ridiculous, Satire

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Writing, Discovery, Long

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. 2010.

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• I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.

  Aziz Ansari

  Writing, Character, People

  "Aziz Ansari gets candid, personal about his candid, personal Netflix show". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. November 02, 2015.

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• Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Thinking, Numbers, Television

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't think that what I'm doing [political cartooning] is necessarily left versus right. What I'm addressing is top versus bottom. If I'm not spending a lot of time making fun of the more extreme elements of the Green Party, it's because what I do is to critique power.

  Tom Tomorrow

  Fun, Party, Thinking

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• Wahhabism goes and takes elements from the Islamic tradition that are most oppressive of women, and highlights and enlarges them and makes them the whole of Islam. In my view, that's a clear corruption of the Islamic tradition.

  Khaled Abou El Fadl

  Islamic, Views, Tradition

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• The most important element of democracy, I believe, is the protection of minorities.

  Shahin Najafi

  Believe, Democracy, Important

  "Rapper Najafi on the Fatwa: 'Fundamentalists Can't Take a Joke'". Interview with Georg Bonisch and Tobias Rapp, www.spiegel.de. May 28, 2012.

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• I don't think comics necessarily think in literary terms. There is an element of developing your stage persona and your comedic voice, but I don't think comics see it like a character in a novel.

  Ted Alexandro

  Character, Thinking, Voice

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns.

  Francesca DiMattio

  Reality, Space, Patterns

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.

  Jamie Lidell

  Song, Writing, Creativity

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• For me, at some point, the idea of struggling through the process was not as interesting as doing tests and executing the painting after I figured out all of its elements and how they were going to work together.

  Laura Owens

  Struggle, Ideas, Interesting

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• Sometimes a collage element I hit upon can inspire the entire drawing.

  Laura Owens

  Drawing, Inspire, Sometimes

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• Nakamura Tempu Sensei viewed the mind as a segment of the body that could not be seen and the body as the element of the mind that was observable. He also likened the mind and body to a stream, with the mind as the source flowing down to the body. Whatever we drop in the stream will be carried down by the current. In like manner, our thoughts will influence the body and our well being.

  H. E Davey

  Mind, Body, Influence

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• The fingerprinting requirement affected only law-abiding citizens that want to buy firearms. It had no impact on Baltimore's criminal element at all.

  Gregory Kane

  Impact, Law, Criminals

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• The important element is the way in which all things are connected. Every thought and action sends shivers of energy into the world around us, which affects all creation. Perceiving the world as a web of connectedness helps us to overcome the feelings of separation that hold us back and cloud our vision. This connection with all life increases our sense of responsability for every move, every attitude, allowing us to see clearly that each soul does indeed make a difference to the whole.

  Emma Restall Orr

  Attitude, Moving, Differences

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• Winnowing is more like a trip to the confessional...transparent & vulnerable without being sentimental. These songs have elements that are more like prayers & pleas for faith. They're questionings and wrangling in the dark about the journey.

  Bill Mallonee

  Song, Prayer, Dark

  "Out of the High Deserts: An Interview with Critically Acclaimed Songwriter, Bill Mallonee". Interview with Matt Litton, mattlitton.com.

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• One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.

  Laurence D. Fink

  Loss, Keys, Gains

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• My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are the six elements of a Sacred Harp alto: rage, darkness, motherhood, earth, malice, and sex. Once you feel it, you can always do it. You know where to go for it, though it will cost you.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Teacher, Sex, Motherhood

  Mary Rose O'Reilley (2014). “The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd”, p.49, Milkweed Editions

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• Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, theres a certain element of an eye for an eye. Theres the saying, 'Be careful what you wish for, you might get it'. When you wish for revenge, and you think you've gotten it, what happens then? Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.

  Niels Arden Oplev

  Revenge, Drama, Eye

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 9, 2013.

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