Quotes by Style The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. Voltaire addressesstylespeech If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer. Voltaire styleeditorsanswers All styles are good except the tiresome kind. Voltaire tiresomestylekind To successfully respond to the myriad of changes that shake the world, transformation into a new style of management is required. The route to take is what I call profound knowledge, knowledge for leadership of transformation. W. Edwards Deming styleprofoundworld The individual has been crushed by our style of management today. W. Edwards Deming stylemanagementtoday The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside. W. Edwards Deming stylemanagementviews The best style is the style you don't notice. W. Somerset Maugham creative-writingstylewriting A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. W. Somerset Maugham effortstylewriting Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Walker Evans stylephotographyart You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style. Walker Evans styleuseart My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite embarrassing, it's quite unpleasant, it's quite awkward. Wallace Shawn awkwardstylepeople Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style. W. H. Auden stylesufferingthinking The only requirement of a symbol is that it have substance underneath: The first thing to do is to try to establish the substance. The style comes after the substance. Only then can the style help the substance, and vice versa. Wally Olins requirementsstyletrying A change of style is a change of meaning. Wallace Stevens style Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. Wallace Stevens style Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter. Wallace Stevens stylepoetryart Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it. Walter Darby Bannard styleinspirationart Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me. Walter F. Mondale masterystylepolitical You're flying Buzz! No Woody we're falling in style! Walt Disney styleflyingfall He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. Walt Whitman stylehonorteacher«127128129130131132133134135136137»
