#formal

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly. ↗

— Robert Bringhurst

#freedom #freedom

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere. ↗

— Beck

#beck #emerges #enough #everywhere #formally

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching. ↗

— Steve Waugh

#any #because #coaching #cricket #formal

There are some promotions in life, which, independent of the more substantial rewards they offer, acquire peculiar value and dignity from the coats and waistcoats connected with them. A field-marshal has his uniform; a bishop his silk apron; a counsellor his silk gown; a beadle his cocked hat. Strip the bishop of his apron, or the beadle of his hat and lace; what are they? Men. Mere men. Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#formalities #titles #imagination

Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts. ↗

— Nancy McKeon

#aside #basically #career #classes #continue

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally. ↗

— Alain Resnais

#film #formal #i #make #more

People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network. If you create an environment like that, it's much more effective and much more efficient. ↗

— Jim Mitchell

#create #effective #efficient #environment #informal

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#am #aspects #attention #boundaries #conscious