#stand

There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you. ↗

— James Franco

#because #care #directing #everything #feel

Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#even #i #pretty #rock #rock star

Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#above #always #back #bipartisanship #burning

It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys. ↗

— Tom Stewart

#easy #goes #help #man #play

We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#differently #expensive #frame #fuels #gone

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. ↗

— Clifford Stoll

#data #information #knowledge #understanding #wisdom

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.' ↗

— Levi Strauss

#chosen #eat #good #natural #species

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language. ↗

— Max Frisch

#between #dealer #difference #horse #language

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball. ↗

— Fred Frith

#ball #costumes #dressed #even #football

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#busy #communications #deal #dreams #great