Formal Quotes - Page 11

• My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Father, Light, Skills

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

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• By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

  John Newton

  Prayer, Ease, Affliction

  John Newton (1869). “Letters: Including Several Never Before Published”, p.81

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• I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.

  Mike Rogers

  Community, Information, Way

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• The Rolling Stones are constantly changing, but beneath the changes they remain the most formal of rock bands. Their successive releases have been continuous extensions of their approach, not radical redefinitions, as has so often been the case with the Beatles.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Rolling, Band

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• It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Finals, Four

  Francis Bacon (1855). “The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature”, p.114

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• I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.

  Zaha Hadid

  Use, Research, Computer

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• The U.N. [the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention] has looked into this whole situation. They spent eighteen months in formal, adversarial litigation. [So it's] me and the U.N. verses Sweden and the U.K. Who's right? The U.N. made a conclusion that I am being arbitrarily detained illegally, deprived of my freedom and that what has occurred has not occurred within the laws that the United Kingdom and Sweden, and that [those countries] must obey. It is an illegal abuse.

  Julian Assange

  Country, Law, Abuse

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• I don't have formal training at all, but I did grow up around design. My parents both flipped homes. A typical weekend for us was walking through model home units. I loved walking through interesting floor plans and seeing different design aesthetics.

  Jeremiah Brent

  Growing Up, Home, Weekend

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an attempt to confront the terrifying void of a patently meaningless universe by challenging it at its own game. [. . .] Each one of these fantasies represents an arraignment of the finite, an attempt to dismantle the formal structure of time and space which the universe wraps around us at the moment we first achieve consciousness.

  J. G. Ballard

  Games, Space, Imagination

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• Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?

  Johnny Carson

  Artist, Police, President

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• Every prime minister has a whole series of networks, and there are official formal networks and there are unofficial informal networks. I'm lucky in that I have good official formal networks, starting with my own office, the leadership group, the cabinet and the party room.

  Tony Abbott

  Party, Office, Rooms

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my eye for art.

  Britt Robertson

  Art, Eye, Training

  Source: cwatlanta.cbslocal.com

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• Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. A successful business owner never stops learning. They educate themselves on the things they need to learn, and they never stop growing. They never arrive at a certain point and think, ahhh... now I don't need to learn anymore.

  Jim Rohn

  Successful, Thinking, Self

  Source: becomeanonlinetutor.com

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• Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Teaching, Foundation, May

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• [The rhetoric] is trying to avoid [the truth that ] the U.N. formally found that the whole thing is illegal, never even mentioning that Ecuador made a formal assessment through its formal processes and found that yes, I am subject to persecution by the United States.

  Julian Assange

  Assessment, Trying, United States

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

  Ben Horowitz

  Culture, Answers, Management

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• Poetry is a really helpful instrument. It's so physical; the musicality becomes a sort of expression of the body. The mind is there too, in the formal aspects of the poem. The emotions are there in the way the senses gather things into the poem.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Expression, Mind, Body

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• The British Fashion Awards are also very important because it's my hometown. But it's really a recognition of my team, and those awards give me an opportunity to thank them in a formal way. You and I have worked together enough to know that it really isn't about two people. It's a whole team. And so it's great to acknowledge that you never do anything alone.

  Christopher Bailey

  Fashion, Team, Opportunity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We don't have formal training, that makes what we're experiencing a little bit more accessible to the viewers. If we actually knew what we were doing ahead of time, it would just be like talking at you, instead of experiencing the situation with you.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Talking, Training, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People have filled an enormously important role in my life - more than books! For me, it's not the formal advising or the therapy that meant so much. It was more the fact that someone committed himself or herself to me. They were really interested in my life; they wanted to know what I was doing; they followed me; they dared to confront and challenge me.

  Henri Nouwen

  Book, People, Challenges

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.

  Kenneth Clark

  Bears, Losing, Burden

  "The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form" by Kenneth Clark, (Ch. VIII), 1951.

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• Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it. Degas liked it not only because it provided an accurate record, but because the snapshot showed him a means of escape from the classical rules of design. Through it he learnt to make a composition without the use of formal symmetry.

  Kenneth Clark

  Photography, Mean, Artist

  Kenneth Clark (1973). “The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art”

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• I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters, what are their relationships to each other, and just trying to get a sense of what and who this book is about. Usually around that point of 100 pages, I start to feel like I'm lost, I have too much material, it's time to start making some choices. It's typically at that point that I sit down and try to make a formal outline and winnow out what's not working and what I'm most interested in, where the story seems to be going.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Writing, Character

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2007.

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• We see an ever-increasing move toward inter and trans- disciplinary attacks upon problems in the real world ... The system scientist has a central role to play in this new order, and that role is to first of all understand ways and means of how to encode the natural world into "good" formal structures.

  John L. Casti

  Real, Moving, Mean

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• Since I began booking some stuff with no formal acting training I told myself, that I needed to really study to stay in the game for the longevity and I did just that.

  Jaime Zevallos

  Games, Training, Acting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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