Subtle Quotes - Page 16

• We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.

  Laozi

  Names, Giving, Desire

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• Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.

  Franz Kafka

  Office, Trying, Horror

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.21, Schocken

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• A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing.

  Magha

  Men, Arrows, Mind

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• I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.

  Adrian Tomine

  Emotional, Stories, Way

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• My interest in fragrance is really a personal thing. I've always gravitated toward them and appreciate the subtle, meaningful way they express who you are.

  Erin Heatherton

  Meaningful, Appreciate, Way

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.

  Hilary Mantel

  Strong, Crooks, Being Original

  Hilary Mantel (2012). “Wolf Hall & Bring Up The Bodies: Two-Book Edition”, p.59, HarperCollins UK

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• There are so many forms, I believe people are bright enough to make their own laws, more subtle ones than we've had before.

  Joan Littlewood

  Believe, Law, People

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• Elijah can register such subtle emotion on his face that I loved doing close-ups on him. He really brings a superb emotional level to Frodo's scenes and although he is a very instinctive actor, we discussed the character thoroughly.

  Peter Jackson

  Character, Emotional, Actors

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• He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them.

  Sun Tzu

  Wise, Secret, Use

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• You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.

  Jodi Picoult

  Daughter, Running, Sex

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

  Hugh Prather

  Taken, Procrastination, Maturity

  Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.81, Conari Press

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• Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Sophisticated, Strategy, Social

  Henry Mintzberg (2013). “Strategy Bites Back ePub eBook”, p.74, Pearson UK

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• One of the most obvious aspects of the music to people who know jazz is: How does it feel in the swing? These are things that are very subtle and that jazz musician appreciate in a particular way. I appreciate the way Tommy Flanagan swings, the way that Barry Harris swings, the great pulse that Hank Jones and Bill Evans have - end every one of them is different.

  Chuck Israels

  Swings, People, Appreciate

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• Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is something keener and more intense than the howling of storms or the rumble of cities.

  George Santayana

  Retirement, Philosophy, Cities

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.143, Рипол Классик

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• Mads has a terrifying subtlety and as the episodes go on, you start seeing the way a person can command other people by doing practically nothing and terrifying the sh*t out of you. He is the most astonishingly subtle performer with the most incredibly keen sense of what his face can do and how his words can form. He has a mission. Nothing is by chance. I truly believe as long as we have success in seasons that Mads will become the defining face of Hannibal Lecter.

  David Slade

  Believe, Long, People

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• Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

  David Shields

  Mosaics, Momentum, Narrative

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• I like the saying: "The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the frames of a film are always the same - the same number, in the same sequence, with the same sounds - every screening is different. The difference is sometimes subtle but it's there. It depends on the audience. There is a circle that goes from the audience to the film and back. Each person is looking and thinking and feeling and coming up with his or her own sense of things. And it's probably different from what I fell in love with.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, Circles, Differences

  David Lynch (2007). “Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.21, Penguin

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• If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to select for a degree of self-deception, rendering some facts and motives unconscious so as not to betray - by the subtle signs of self-knowledge - the deception being practiced.' Thus, 'the conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ever more accurate images of the world must be a very naive view of mental evolution.

  Robert Trivers

  Strong, Communication, Animal

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• Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world.

  Dorothy Norman

  Hero, Creative, Battle

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• Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.

  Marianne Williamson

  Powerful, Creating, World

  Marianne Williamson (2014). “Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Example, Novel

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8926, Delphi Classics

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• What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In visual art it's about making you feel emotional, but it's more subtle.

  Ragnar Kjartansson

  Art, Emotional, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is transformed by the camera, that you can't use the limitations or the transformation to have an observation that is a very subtle perception of the world.

  Stephen Shore

  Mean, Perception, Cameras

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would love an old classic car, or something like that. I'd get something much more subtle than any of those cars. The Lamborghinis were unbelievable to drive and to sit in and to film in. I loved the sensation because I love driving, so I appreciate them for what they are. But, I couldn't go into a showroom and buy something of that expense.

  Dominic Cooper

  Appreciate, Car, Driving

  "Dominic Cooper Talks NEED FOR SPEED, Fulfilling His Childhood Dream of Doing a Racing Movie, the Stunts, WARCRAFT, FLEMING, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. March 13, 2014.

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• I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your mark and gotten your Rolling Stone piece and your Grammy nomination, that they're on to the next piece of meat, and they don't necessarily like to follow the twistsand turns of an artistic career. Throwing an opera at them is something they have to notice. There's nothing subtle about it.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Careers, America, Meat

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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