Loops Quotes - Page 5

• Looping isn't an effect: it's your playing, only more of it and, if you hang with it, it'll uncover previously hidden facets from the body of your music. Remember: the original source of any loop is whatever your sound is, at the moment of input.

  David Torn

  Guitar, Sound, Body

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• No, thanks.” Rhage laughed. “I’m a good little sewer, as you know firsthand. Now who’s your friend?” “Beth Randall, this is Rhage. An associate of mine. Rhage, this is Beth, and she doesn’t do movie stars, got it?” “Loud and clear.” Rhage leaned to one side, trying to see around Wrath. “Nice to meet you, Beth.” “Are you sure you don’t want to go to a hospital?” she said weakly. “Nah. This one’s just messy. When you can use your large intestine as a belt loop, that’s when you hit the pros.

  J.R. Ward

  Stars, Nice, Wrath

  J. R. Ward (2011). “Dark Lover: Number 1 in series”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress ecological connections and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design and the working relationships and connections between all things.

  Bill Mollison

  Stress, Thoughtful, Focus

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• Casting is really exciting. With 'Twilight,' I wasn't involved at all with the casting in the original. They kept me in the loop, which was great. They'd be like, 'Hey Kristen Stewart's gonna do it' and I was like, 'Really? Awesome.'

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Hey, Casting

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• The most important rule: Do not, I repeat, do not censor yourself in any way. Leave your editorial mind out of the loop. Just let the ideas come pouring out in any way, shape, or form they want to. Do not judge anything.

  James Scott Bell

  Ideas, Judging, Mind

  James Scott Bell (2004). “Write Great Fiction - Plot & Structure”, p.44, Writer's Digest Books

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• It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you – that closes the loop on pecuniary self-interest. Customers are always right, but people aren't.

  Eli Pariser

  Self, People, World

  Eli Pariser (2011). “The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think”, p.21, Penguin

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• I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In other words, I believe that evolution, including the principle of natural selection, is one of the tools used by God to create mankind. Mankind is then a participant in the creation of the universe itself, so that we have a closed loop. I believe that there is a level on which science and religious metaphor are mutually compatible.

  Christopher Langan

  God, Religious, Believe

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• In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.

  Asa Gray

  Animal, Vegetables, Lines

  Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”

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• I use an Electrix repeater [for live looping]. It works...it's unstable and the MIDI implementation was written by a sped. I think it's Canadian but that may be a coincidence. I've been through all sorts, the original jam man was great but clicked on the loop if you didn't get it just right, something I am familiar with. As I said in another answer I have an RC50 but haven't fired it up yet. On paper it looks great.

  Robin Guthrie

  Men, Thinking, Answers

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• The rollercoaster has its ups and downs, loops and twists but enjoy the ride. We are all on it together.

  Jessie J

  Together, Twists, Enjoy

  Twitter post from Dec 11, 2012

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• We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we attribute responsibility to - we say "I", "I" did this because "I" wanted to, because "I" am a good person or because "I" am a bad person. The loop is the fact that we represent our selves, our desires, hopes, dreads and dreams: it is the way in which we conceive of ourselves, rather than the way we conceive of Mount Everest or of a tree. And I say it exists entirely in the loop: the self is an hallucination hallucinated by an hallucination.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Dream, Responsibility, Self

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• Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.

  Neil Postman

  Giving, Voting, News

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.69, Penguin

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• There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and, new for him, emotion. It's like a dream of levitation: you're instantaneously aloft, soaring, banking, doing loop-the-loops and then, when you think you're about to plummet to earth, swooping to a gentle touchdown of not easily described sweetness and sorrow.

  Vincent Canby

  Dream, Thinking, Play

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• I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.

  Terry Riley

  Technology, Dancer, Tape

  Interview with Gamall Awad and Ammon Haggerty, www.qaswa.com. October 9, 1992.

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• I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, Pride, Color

  "Prophet Singer: The Voice And Vision of Woody Guthrie". Book by Mark Allan Jackson, 2007.

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• I remember the initial genesis quite clearly. My interest in dreams comes from this notion of realizing that when you dream you create the world that you are perceiving, and I thought that feedback loop was pretty amazing.

  Christopher Nolan

  Dream, World, Remember

  Christopher Nolan, Jonah Nolan (2010). “Inception: The Shooting Script”, p.8, Insight Editions

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• String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.

  Edward Witten

  Nature, Thinking, Littles

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• We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops.

  Tim Harford

  Design, Trying, World

  Tim Harford (2011). “Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure”, p.59, Hachette UK

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• Only after Mom went missing did you realize that her stories were piled inside you, in endless stacks. Mom's everyday life used to go on in a repeating loop, without a break. Her everyday words, which you didn't think deeply about and sometimes dismissed as useless when she was with you, awoke in your heart, creating tidal waves.

  Shin Kyung-sook

  Mom, Heart, Thinking

  Kyung-Sook Shin (2011). “Please Look After Mom”, p.260, Vintage

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• History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast?

  Henry Bromell

  Change, Powerful, Next Day

  "Fictional character: Chris Stevens". TV Series "Northern Exposure" ("The Body in Question", 1991), 1990-1995.

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• I recently had to wait two and a half hours in a doctor's office, just waiting to be seen. I literally was genuinely thinking 'Well, maybe this is a time loop.'

  Jane Espenson

  Thinking, Doctors, Two

  "Loopy". BBC Interview, bbc.adactio.com. 2002.

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• I feel great. I'm right there for the top two. I know my long is a very strong program and I've had lots of success with it, so I feel confident going into the long. Just fix up that loop.

  Alaine Chartrand

  Strong, Two, Long

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• Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right.  It has nothing to do with fixing things.  It has nothing to do with standards.  Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move forward.  It is a loop-an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole.

  Julia Cameron

  Moving, Writing, Sight

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• What I worry about is working in this serial medium, where people are talking about your stories before they're done, we have this instant feedback loop now. I'm very active on Tumblr and I have a very active engagement with readers and I love it, but I don't want to start writing to try to please someone else. I don't want my meter to get skewed.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Writing, Talking, People

  Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, thestake.org. January 30, 2014.

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• I have lots of brothers and sisters, two of whom are younger than myself, so I rely on my phone, text messaging or e-mailing to stay in the loop and communicate when I'm away for big chunks of time.

  Devon Aoki

  Brother, Phones, Two

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

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