Quotes by Thinking There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person. Alexander McQueen sadnessinspirationalthinking I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass. Alexander McQueen crassi-canthinking There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is. Alexander Meiklejohn tasksdonethinking This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how and why we have come to think of accuracy, sincerity, and authenticity as virtues. Bernard Williams' account of their emergence is as detailed and imaginative as his defense of their importance is spirited and provocative. Williams asks hard questions, and gives them straightforward and controversial answers. His book does not simply describe and advocate these virtues of truthfulness; it manifests them. Alexander Nehamas philosophicalbookthinking My view is that friendship permeates human life and is involved in almost everything we think, feel, and do. For that very reason, there is no behavior that is characteristic of friendship. Two people can engage in the very same behavior - visiting someone in hospital, for example - and yet only one of them might be doing so out of friendship; moreover, friends can be doing absolutely anything together, even quarrel or fight. That means that it is difficult, if not impossible, to recognize a friendship simply on the basis of what people do. Alexander Nehamas fightingmeanthinking I never look forward. I live for today. If you think about what's going to happen in a year, in two years, then you begin to plan. And plans never come true. Alexander Ovechkin twoyearsthinking I don't care what people say about me and what they think about me. I care about my team and I care about myself. Lots of people watch hockey, and I think everybody has different thinking. Alexander Ovechkin hockeyteamthinking If you go to ice and you think, 'I must score' or 'I must get some points,' you won't score or get any points. You must go and play and don't think about it. Alexander Ovechkin iceplaythinking Hockey is my life and money is money. If you think about money, you stop playing hockey. Alexander Ovechkin playing-hockeyhockeythinking I think I must play how I can, that's all. And if I play my best I'll be happy. It doesn't matter because NHL is the best league in the world and we have great players so whoever the coach puts me with is the best. The coach knows best. Alexander Ovechkin playerleaguethinking I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script. Alexander Payne mistakeideasthinking I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly. Alexander Payne lastsagethinking If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie. Alexander Payne very-goodgood-moviethinking The thing is, right now the films don't need to be overtly political to be about our times. We also need films that are just human, that are about people. People need that, too. It's like we need to reconnect to what it is to be human. Not just what our political situation is. That's not what I'm thinking about exclusively. Human content is needed again, as it was in the '70s. I think films were more human than they've been since then. Alexander Payne politicalpeoplethinking I think about what movie I would like to see. I don't think of them as a correction or palliative. I certainly am irritated by anything that's shot in the Midwest and filled with these noble people. "Oh, they're so good, and they're so honest..." I'm not interested in that. I just think of what's right for a movie. Alexander Payne irritatedpeoplethinking Acting is a lot easier than people think it is. Alexander Payne actingpeoplethinking I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth. My goal is always what Chuck Jones wanted his Warner Brothers cartoons to be, which was if you turn down the sound, you could still tell what's going on. Alexander Payne brothergoalthinking But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about. Alexander Payne problemcountrythinking I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service. Alexander Payne filmselfthinking I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on. Alexander Payne soundwatchesthinking«115116117118119120121122123124125»
