Trajectory Quotes - Page 6

• As I see it, the major requirements for a strong and able rendering are an understanding of a work's structure, voicing, and trajectory; an ability to execute the details on the page from largest to smallest; technical command, and hopefully a connection with the overall expressive impulse (though the latter is not at all necessary to give a good performance).

  Michael Hersch

  Strong, Giving, Understanding

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• The issue here is this, that the Government's argument at the present moment is the argument that now the war is over, terrorism is defeated, we have to focus on economic development which in the north and east particular, being the areas where the war was fought, development has to proceed at a pace. That people from those parts of the country are leaving seems to suggest a lack of confidence and certainty in the trajectory of this kind of economic development.

  Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

  Country, War, Government

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

  John Ralston Saul

  Technology, Class, Giving

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Book your life choices in advance the same way you would book flights, car rentals, hotels, and excursions. Figure out early on in your career whether you intend to be financially independent or marry a rich man, join the ranks of the professional elite or be the stay-at- home type, postpone having children or find part-time employment. Then fasten your seat belt and sit tight as you watch your trajectory veer off course.

  Veronique Vienne

  Children, Book, Independent

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• I like storytelling, and for storytelling you need a drama. And for there to be drama, you need twists, and by twists I mean the ability to constantly change the
  trajectory of the story.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Drama, Mean, Twists

  "Interview: Academy Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi on his film ‘The Past’". Interview with Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

  Carl Sandburg

  Echoes, Sound, Infinite

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present, mindless trajectory, could land those lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Wall, Land

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• As a person, I take pleasure in receiving and sharing. As a perfumer, I like showing and convincing.... I'm quite simply following the trajectory of an artist, someone who seeks and, sometimes, finds.

  Jean-Claude Ellena

  Artist, Receiving, Sometimes

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• If I'm doing some weird tick with my mouth, or not standing still or something, I'll be the first person to notice it, and then want to change that. I think it's important just to maintain trajectory, to not just use your same tricks over and over.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Thinking, Important, Use

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made... The arc of complexity and open-ended creation in the last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead.

  Kevin Kelly

  Lying, Self, Years

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• The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

  Fareed Zakaria

  America, Long, Feelings

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• Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic amid inner turmoil, run on an upward trajectory of success and money acquisition at any emotional cost. But these are not rules.

  Martha Beck

  Running, Monday, Passion

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• Why I've never been that fond of politics and only got into it recently kicking and screaming, because I don't think politicians are going to reverse the trajectory of this country. I think it's going to depend on the American people understanding what is fair and what makes their lives better.

  Charles Koch

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• It is possible to point to hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of imaginative, courageous programs to reduce, recycle, and reuse - yet the overall trajectory of industrial civilization remains relatively unchanged.

  Richard Heinberg

  Civilization, Reuse, Courageous

  Richard Heinberg (2015). “Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels”, p.65, New Society Publishers

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• I've figured out that I don't want to spend all of my spare time trying to make money. But, with things like fame or internet presence - things you cannot cash in at the bank - there is still a sense that more is better and that your career should be following a certain trajectory.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Careers, Trying, Cash

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think it's overly simplistic to say that any one single strategy is going to really change the focus and change the trajectory of drug use.

  Michael Botticelli

  Thinking, Drug Use, Focus

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Well, it's kind of like that classic sort of trajectory in this kind of movie where there's conflict and they're estranged and they kind of grow to love each other but they don't show it. Then at the end - it's kind of like that. But I think the characters are more interesting than that.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a better, more compelling reason for dropping everything and moving to the end of the world, I know not what it is.

  J. Maarten Troost

  Moving, Compelling Reason, World

  J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway

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• A trajectory of misery – at this point – seems intentional.
  We have all the information we need to see clearly.
  We are no longer unaware toddlers on the landscape of consciousness.
  It is no longer cute to crap ourselves.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Cute, Needs, Landscape

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• English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.

  Zadie Smith

  Growing Up, Fiction, Changed

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• The need of the hour is to think big. The more we focus on skill, scale & speed, it will increase India's growth trajectory.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Thinking, Skills

  Twitter post from Jun 8, 2014

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• I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much.

  Corey Hart

  Valleys, Way, Popularity

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• We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions... We are near a tipping point, a point of no return, beyond which the built in momentum and feedbacks will carry us to levels of climate change with staggering consequences for humanity and all of the residents of this planet.

  James Hansen

  Decide Upon, Years, Humanity

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• But fairness is where we’re heading, at least in regard to marriage, which has emerged as the terrain on which Americans are hashing out their feelings about gays and lesbians. The trajectory is undeniable. The trend line is clear. And the choice before the justices is whether to be handmaidens to history, or whether to sit it out.

  Frank Bruni

  Gay, Justice, Choices

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• Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the fact that the game has already been played precludes the possibility that our cheering will somehow penetrate the television, travel through the cable system, find its way to the stadium, and influence the trajectory of the ball as it hurtles toward the goalposts!

  Daniel Gilbert

  Football, Cheer, Fun

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.22, Vintage

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