Foreground Quotes - Page 3

• N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

  J. I. Packer

  Backgrounds

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• The principle I adhere to when directing, is that I make good use of everything my staff creates. Even if they make foregrounds that don't quite fit with my backgrounds, I never waste it and try to find the best use for it.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Trying, Principles, Use

  Source: www.midnighteye.com

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• I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

  H. R. Giger

  Art, Curves, Lines

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• The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

  Lyn Hejinian

  Poetry, Literature, Process

  Lyn Hejinian (2000). “The Language of Inquiry”, p.43, Univ of California Press

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• Everyone is aware of the fact that visual and auditive perspective are identical; the only difference being that they are created and perceived by two physically different organs, the eye and the ear. How often the playing of a great master makes us think of a picture with a deep background and varying planes; the figures in the foreground almost leap out of the frame whereas in the background the mountains and clouds are lost in a blue haze.

  Heinrich Neuhaus

  Eye, Thinking, Clouds

  Genrikh Gustavovich Neĭgauz, Heinrich Neuhaus (1973). “The art of piano playing”, Longwood Pr Ltd

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• I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

  Keanu Reeves

  Moving, Light, Giving

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• The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

  Samuel Johnson

  World, Landscape, Finest

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• Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which they inhabit. It would be much more desirable that facts should be placed in the foreground and theories in the distance, than that theories should be brought forward at the expense of facts. So that, in after times, when the speculations of the present day shall have passed away, from a greater accumulation of information, the facts may be readily seized and converted to account.

  Henry De la Beche

  Distance, Science, Information

  "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" edited by Carl C. Gaither, Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither, Springer Science & Business Media, (p. 863), January 5, 2012.

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• Dr. Rosenberg has brought the simplicity of successful communication into the foreground. No matter what issue you're facing, his strategies for communicating with others will set you up to win every time.

  Tony Robbins

  Communication, Successful, Winning

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