Quotes About Making

Hmm... at some point when I was making 'Postcards,' it struck me, what the underlying themes for the record would be. It would be about choices, fears and doubts, and it had an existentialist theme to it.

Whatever film I'm making, no matter how harsh or edgy it is, there has to be a core underneath the ebb and flow of it that is heartfelt.

The path to success isn't through my lizard brain, it's through high quality collaboration and making good stuff and understanding difficult situations fully enough to come up with good (or even great) solutions quickly.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

He is the King with your consent, stop blaming and start making better choices.

Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.

At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Even with the success of 'Once,' I can't think about making theater straight for Broadway. Too nerve-racking.

As a television actor, when we work in TV, what we're doing is making a product so that networks can sell ad space.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of literature, I've always thought, lies in how willful the act of making it is.

She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.

It is easy for him and me to decipher now a past destiny; but a destiny in the making is, believe me, not one of those honest mystery stories where all you have to do is keep an eye on the clues.

Time is but memory in the making.

Make for the joy of making; Give for the joy of giving; Love for the joy of loving; Live for the joy of living.

Not the bureaucrat's stamp on the folder of our fate. But a knot nonetheless, and not of our making.

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

Concepts and patterns that your brain is sorting through and making sense of are much more scalable and universal than any specific vendor's technology

The poem is, then, a little myth of man's capacity for making 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.

For the better part of two decades, I have observed an approximate 75 percent reproduction rate through the triad model of disciple making.