Quotes About Distill

Making movies is all about compromise, negotiation, and sacrifice, but the process helps you distill what's really important to you, and once you have identified what those these things are for any particular sequence, you hold onto them and don't let them go.

So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

So don't confuse repacking with merely simplifying.

Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.

When I write Superboy and other DC characters, it's about boiling them down to core concepts.

Knowing what you want to accomplish in the end will help you weed out the essential from the nonessential.

The work I did on 'Killing Kennedy' was very meticulous and, in some ways, actually tedious. It was hard work because there is so much known about John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. To try to distill that into a clear narrative that's interesting and tells two great stories was a real challenge.

I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.

I think, in some ways, that is the balm of stories, of fables, of tales: it's the way we're wired. We have always needed to distill what we're going through and try to understand it by looking either backwards or forwards. And the hardest is to look in the now.

If you tell people the world is complicated, you're not doing your job as a social scientist. They already know it's complicated. Your job is to distill it, simplify it.

When you remember something, you simplify it, while retaining most of what is important. Thus, your memory can serve as a filter, removing what is useless and preserving and organizing what is vital. [Reconstructing and writing down your argument from memory] is distilling to its essence.

I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling betrayals of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache for some unlived destiny. I wrote about the raw, unsettled feelings coursing through me, the need to divest and relocate, the urge to radically simplify and distill life into a new, unknown meaning.

How did you learn how to do this, whittle the complex down to simple?

The goal was to get employees to distill a pitch into its purest essence, to start from something the customer might see—the public announcement—and work backward.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

There is no organic process where you can take a diverse community like America and then distill it down to it only looks monolithic without having some kind of inorganic interplay going on that created that outcome.

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

Omit the non-essential.

My job as the national security adviser is to distill and present to the president the views and options that come from the various departments and agencies.

Control, edit and distill.