#own

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#collaborators #compliment #find #more #own

My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard. ↗

— Paula Zahn

#because #challenge #even #greater #happening

Everything's changed. The technology is the big thing changing now, the way movies like 'Alice' or 'Avatar' are made. And technology on the other side, the audience side. Word spreads so fast now on a movie, with the Internet, and piracy is something coming down the line like in the music industry. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#audience #big #big thing #changed #changing

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them. ↗

— Robert Zemeckis

#how #live #many #matter #obstacles

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity. ↗

— Tony Wilson

#homegrown #local #powerful #quite

I have never designed a language for its own sake. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#i #language #never #own #sake

In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. ↗

— James Wolcott

#chicken #direction #down #easy #edited

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril. ↗

— Xenophon

#arduous #being #cause #enduring #followers

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. ↗

— Gao Xingjian

#alive #existence #keep #mind #my own

I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this. ↗

— Mo Yan

#become #down #famous #had #heard