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• What's needed now are software technologies that interconnect computing systems, people and data to produce more rapid answers to the questions of science, and to help researchers use computation in the most effective manner.

  Bob Muglia

  Technology, Data, People

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• When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing... Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today... to pay partial attention - continuously. It is different from multi-tasking.

  Linda Stone

  Desire, Different, Tasks

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• Attention is the most powerful tool of the human spirit. We can enhance or augment our attention with practices like meditation and exercise, diffuse it with technologies like email and Blackberries, or alter it with pharmaceuticals. In the end, though, we are fully responsible for how we choose to use this extraordinary tool.

  Linda Stone

  Powerful, Exercise, Technology

  "Fine Dining with Mobile Devices" by Linda Stone, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2008.

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• Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us - we feel compelled to use it where ever it is. Technology is neutral. How, when and where we use it is up to us.

  Linda Stone

  Technology, Giving, Feels

  "Is it Time to Retire the Never-Ending List?" by Linda Stone, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2008.

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• Lots of girls will work for five years before Mario Testino will use them, and I was not prepared to slog around doing that.

  Liberty Ross

  Girl, Years, Mario

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• I love being inside my brain and pushing myself to think in ever more complex ways because I know the ideas are there for the taking. It's all about being focused and disciplined and making use of one's abilities.

  Nancy Crow

  Love Is, Thinking, Ideas

  Nancy Crow (2006). “Nancy Crow”

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• When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels, the brush we use is a pressure sensitive pen. The colors are the same as painters use, and how we get to the final image is the same gut wrenching way.

  Donald Lambert

  Artist, Color, Way

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• If it has a use it isn't art.

  Paterson Ewen

  Art, Ifs

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• It's true, I do sometimes suspend myself over the canvas, but mostly I work at a table when I'm making a painting. When I use 'The Rig,' my feet are firmly anchored. I lower myself horizontally just long enough to make a brush stroke - a matter of seconds - and then I'm upright again. My assistant then erases the painting quickly with a squeegee and I go for it again... until I get it right. It's like trying to hit a home run.

  James Nares

  Running, Home, Feet

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• My brushes, my cameras, and my willingness to use them.

  James Nares

  Cameras, Brushes, Willingness

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• Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure and other subject matter that reflects the sophistication and beauty I find in nature - all presented from a unique point of view - can only be successfully achieved with a sound command of the painter's craft... history will determine how successful I have been.

  Nelson Shanks

  Successful, Unique, Light

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• If I am using a sable, it may start off as an eight or seven, but it's a double aught by the time I'm done. I hate brights... they have no use. You might as well buy a filbert and take the scissors and cut off half of what you paid for.

  Nelson Shanks

  Hate, Cutting, Eight

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• I think of music a lot when I paint. The theme of it to a degree is music. So instead of literally putting in music or literally putting in a musical instrument, I use only a hint of the instrument, but the brocaded pattern is like a line of Bach because of its order and the leaves going up are like passages from Vivaldi, and the emphasis on drapery is where the sound comes.

  Nelson Shanks

  Thinking, Order, Musical

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• I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.

  Abe Ajay

  Color, Looks, Students

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• It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and 'search' is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.

  Abe Ajay

  Discovery, Risk, Promise

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• In the editing process, I delete what I do not want to use, move what remains around if necessary and add elements that I feel will make my visual statement as clear and understandable as possible.

  Gerald Brommer

  Moving, Editing, Add

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• To me, watercolor is a Western medium, so when I feel like I am using a Western manner I will use English to sign my name.

  Liu Dan

  Names, Signatures, Mediums

  "Conversation with Liu Dan". Interview with Jane DeBevoise, www.aaa-a.org. March 25, 2010.

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• When HSBC took the painting out of their building, they had to block the road and use a crane to bring the painting out from the window. They spent about 20,000 dollars just to get the painting out of the building! They said not to bring it back, and told Sotheby's to sell it immediately!

  Liu Dan

  Block, Dollars, Painting

  Interview with Jane DeBevoise, www.aaa-a.org. March 25, 2010.

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• My father is not around any more, so I cannot ask him to do my drawings for me. So, I had to find a different way. And I came up with the solution to use the printers then; I wasn't doing anything complicated. The nature of the printer is efficiency in itself and about working, being productive.

  Wade Guyton

  Father, Drawing, Different

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• I use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it is a pencil. Maybe I have a special talent, a feeling you might say that lets me control it, to express my ideas as though I were sketching black on white.

  Ugo Mochi

  Ideas, White, Feelings

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• Man is aware; he perceives and interprets the world around him. When he uses logic as a tool for interpretation, it becomes science; when he uses feelings for interpretation, it becomes poetry; when he takes a longer view of his observations, it becomes wisdom.

  Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

  Wisdom, Men, Views

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• You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.

  Zana Briski

  Photography, Suffering, Cameras

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• Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to defend their rights have increasing trouble getting them. ... Gun control is in effect a subsidy for criminals.

  Sheldon Richman

  Gun, Rights, People

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• We have little control over the outer weather patterns as we make our way through the landscape of a life. But we can become masters of the inner landscape. We can use what happens on the outside to change the way we function on the inside.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Weather, Landscape, Patterns

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• I do not wish upon anyone a descent into hell. But if your life has to be turned inside out in order for you to know yourself--if the shadow of a shaman crosses your path and you turn and follow it down--I pray that you use its force wisely. I hope that you take the ultimate responsibility for your actions and that you consecrate any destruction to the rebuilding of your higher self and a more radiant life.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Responsibility, Self, Order

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