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• This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a better camera to buy and new software to download. The user never has time to become comfortable with the tool. Consequently too much of the work is merely about the technology. The HDR and QTVR fads are good examples. Instead of focusing on the subject, users obsess over RAW conversion, Photoshop plug-ins, and on and on. For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

  Alec Soth

  Photography, Technology, Typewriters

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• I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance. Never settle for the path of least resistance. Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin'. Lovin might be a mistake but it's worth makin'.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Life, Mistake, Distance

  Song: I Hope You Dance, Album: I Hope You Dance

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• Never settle for the path of least resistance

  Lee Ann Womack

  Path, Resistance, Settling

  Song: I Hope You Dance, Album: I Hope You Dance

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• One key to success is demanding more than adequacy, never settling for good enough and always doing a little bit more.

  Michael Josephson

  Keys, Adequacy, Littles

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• Ignorance never settles a question.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Ignorance, Intelligent, Intelligence

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5013, Delphi Classics

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• Never settle. There is no need to rush.

  Mark Cuban

  Needs, Settling

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• Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.

  Obafemi Awolowo

  Hate, Long, Soul

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• We must never settle for harmony at the expense of holiness, nor for peace at the expense of principle.

  John Bradford

  Christian, Holiness, Principles

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• Dubai will never settle for anything less than first place.

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

  Dubai, Firsts, Settling

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• You should never settle for what you think is just good. You should drive the editors and writers and everybody nuts until it's great. And if you don't go for great, you won't end up with good. You've got to go beyond your wildest dreams because the exigencies of filmmaking are going to smash you into the ordinary.

  Fred Schepisi

  Dream, Art, Motivation

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• Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Prayer, Rushing, Spirit

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• The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you.

  Rajneesh

  Boredom, Flow, Youth

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• Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Father, Cities, Politics

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• One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Dust, Television, Radio

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.

  Bruce Feirstein

  Flames, Settling, Accomplish

  Bruce Feirstein, Lionel Trippett (1982). “Real Men Don't Eat Quiche”, New English Library

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• I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.

  Jason Reitman

  Hate, Drama, Moving

  Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com.

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• Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Issues, Dukes

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.27, Penguin

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• I was observing her closely as I talked, and after a while I began to get the impression that she was not, in fact, quite so merry and smiling a girl as I had been led to believe at first. She seemed to be coiled in herself, as though with a secret she was jealously guarding. The deep-blue eyes moved too quickly about the room, never settling or resting on one thing for more than a moment; and over all her face, though so faint that they might not even have been there, those small downward lines of sorrow.

  Roald Dahl

  Girl, Believe, Eye

  Roald Dahl (1979). “Tales of the unexpected”

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• There's not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And always mean everything you say.

  James Cagney

  Mean, Relax, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Now, as I move through my fifties, I can be professional and domestic, creative and intellectual, patient and urgent. I have learned that we should never settle for someone else's definition of who we can be. Growing to this age, I realize, is kind of like feeling your voice deepen. It's still your voice, but it has more substance, and it sounds like it knows its own origins.

  Susan Sarandon

  Moving, Voice, Creative

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• Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Dirty, Men, Special

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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• My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. But the fighting never settles the question. It only gets the participants around to a frame of mind where they will agree to discuss what they were fighting about.

  Henry Ford

  War, Fighting, Civilization

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.165, 谷月社

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• I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre.

  Doug Martsch

  Band, Reggae, Settling

  Source: pitchfork.com

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