Quotes About Making

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.

Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want.

At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.

It was a silly time to try to make a living out of words, but it was a silly time in general.

So the Dark did a simple thing. They showed the maker of the sword his own uncertainty and fear. Fear of having done the wrong thing--fear that having done this one great thing, he would never again be able to accomplish anything of great worth--fear of age, of insufficiency, of unmet promise. All such great fears, that are the doom of people given the gift of making, and lie always somewhere in their minds.

I think some people who have never met me have a misconception that when I was living with my father when he was successful, that I was somehow adversely affected by his success or the money he had and was making at the time.

Destiny is for losers... It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.

I don't think the important part of making music is the method used but rather the spirit put into it, so to speak.

There's something about supposed experts making millions of dollars to bark tired sports cliches that makes our blood boil. And it should.

Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

You should try making more noise as you walk, too." Curran suggested. "Maybe the ghouls will mistake you for a small underground elephant and run off.

I hung up. So this is what making a deal with the devil felt like. Too late for regrets now. I sighed and packed an extra clip.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making his life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life.

The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.

To be an actor, you have to be self-obsessed, but when you are a filmmaker, you get a macro view. Every aspect of making the film is under your purview. And for me, that is a bigger turn-on than just being an actress.

The world, more suffering than sinning, turns toward Pope Francis as in a conversation people turn to the person who is making sense of things.

There's no less serious thing than making TV, knocking about in cars.

I hate making TV documentaries.

As an actor, as much as I'm interested in how you make movies and TV shows, even as a kid, I've always hated making of featurettes and special features on DVDs. I think it breaks the spell.

It's still about making a good decision. We all want to have the Reggie Bush's of the world on our football team, but it's not reality.

I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer wants that, he should call other people. Not me.

This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making.