#take

Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#begun #composers #diminishing #further #i

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#catholic #i #lapsed #like #point

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#give #laughter #most #situations #take

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. ↗

— Asa Gray

#beliefs #books #considerations #different #down

When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out. ↗

— Iris Chang

#broad #compression #decide #expansion #extremely

I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me because of the warning. They knew this book was not going to be the official line. ↗

— Jung Chang

#because #book #friend #going #half

In certain areas where the media are still controlled, the changes have come to a halt, which is a very frustrating situation. I would like the changes to take place throughout China. ↗

— Jung Chang

#certain #changes #china #come #controlled

It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling. ↗

— Jung Chang

#constantly #could #evil #excitement #feeling

If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not. ↗

— James Chanos

#basically #certain #day #drown #every

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#away #editing #finish #just #making