Features Quotes - Page 10

• The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

  John Dewey

  Community, Improvement, Problem

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.64, 谷月社

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• If you go through all the structures and features of this emerging European monster you will notice that it more and more resembles the Soviet Union.

  Vladimir Bukovsky

  Monsters, Unions, Structure

  "Secretly Trading Away Our Independence" by William F. Jasper, www.thenewamerican.com. May 9, 2013.

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• It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.

  Werner Herzog

  Mean, Documentaries, Film

  "A Documentary is Just a Feature Film In Disguise: An Interview with Werner Herzog". Interview with Ben Simington, mubi.com. December 12, 2009.

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• Books proliferate, and occasionally sell in very large numbers, which claim to have found the rule, or small set of rules, which will guarantee business success. But business is far too complicated, far too difficult an activity to distil into a few simple commands ... It is failure rather than success which is the distinguishing feature of corporate life.

  Paul Ormerod

  Book, Simple, Numbers

  Paul Ormerod (2010). “Why Most Things Fail”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.

  Sigmund Freud

  Adults, Defense, Characteristics

  Sigmund Freud (1973). “Abstracts of the Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they’ll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thing down.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, People, Special

  Interview with Suzanne Lammers, programmersatwork.wordpress.com. 1986.

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• As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Plato, Compassion, Self

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• If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.441, Modern Library

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• For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Discovery, Worry

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.

  John Milton

  Air, Quarry, Grim

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.262

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• We made four feature films with Sherwood Baptist. The wonderful thing was the church (members) volunteered. It was an awesome atmosphere of attitudes. The hard part was (that) all four of the first feature films we made take place in modern-day Albany, Georgia. We know that not all of our films going to be (set in) modern-day Albany, Georgia.

  Alex Kendrick

  Attitude, Atmosphere, Church

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.

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• I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking and rule-following.

  Matt Nix

  Writing, Character, Careers

  Source: deadline.com

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• Millions upon millions of years ago, when the continents were already formed and the principal features of the earth had been decided, there existed, then as now, one aspect of the world that dwarfed all other ... a mighty ocean, resting uneasily to the east of the largest continent, a restless ever-changing, gigantic body of water that would later be described as Pacific.

  James A. Michener

  Ocean, Years, Water

  James A. Michener (2013). “Hawaii: A Novel”, p.19, Dial Press

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• I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.

  Charles Kuralt

  Impact, People, Stories

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• I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.

  Charles Kuralt

  Thinking, Stories, Lines

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• One of the most difficult features of direct experience is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed, but what can be observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories.

  Michael Crichton

  Expectations, Trouble, Theory

  "Travels". Book by Michael Crichton, 1988.

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• What is the best way to look for one´s chief feature?" someone asked. Simply see yourself. I do not know how to explain it better. It is possible one may find something -- chief feature of the moment. It is imaginary personality; this is the chief feature for everybody."Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Knowing, Personality, Quality

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• You have to use your judgment. In cases like that, we say, 'let's be simple minded. We know this is a feature that's good for customers. Let's do it.

  Jeff Bezos

  Simple, Use, Judgment

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• I have a brand new favorite for a Disney animated feature coming out next Christmas called The Princess and the Frog. I'm Ray the singing Cajun firefly. New Orleans is my second hometown. I was a deckhand on a riverboat there when I was 18, so I have that Cajun accent down pat. Ray is a lovesick firefly who's near-sighted and falls in love with the Evening Star. Of course, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger will always be favorites of mine too.

  Jim Cummings

  Falling In Love, Stars, Princess

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• One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Past, Giving, Modern

  Lawrence Lessig (2009). “Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy”, p.140, A&C Black

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• Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

  Albert Einstein

  Essentials, Productive

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• I think people were a little nervous to work with me to start with, because the movies I've done they thought that I wouldn't be able to control myself at all. I'd have to blow up the cars or something like that, and I think also people are scared of working sometimes with feature directors, because they feel like you're not going to listen to their opinions.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Blow, Thinking, Control Myself

  Source: collider.com

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• Commercials are also any opportunity to meet new crew and work with new kind of rigs. You can explore working with different people without having to make the full commitment of having to do an entire feature film with them and see whether you like them. Also it's great for testing out new equipment, like on the last spot we just did, I used a lot of drone technology, really cutting edge drone stuff, more than I've ever done before, and it worked out really really well.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Commitment, Cutting, Technology

  Source: collider.com

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• Sci-fi is definitely something that I've been wanting to do again since Panic Attack and I want to do it on a feature scale.

  Fede Alvarez

  Want, Panic Attacks, Sci Fi

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm one of those actors who's just standing there, waiting and ready for something to come my way. I don't really try to think about, "Oh, I feel the next thing I should do should be a feature. Now, I think I should do a play." I just hope someone wants to cast me in something.

  Sarah Paulson

  Thinking, Play, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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