Quotes About Multifaceted

To be human is often an endless tangle of invisible forces and confounding paradoxes, of being many things all at the same time.

Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp.

The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it's nice to add other levels underneath that people can pick up on.

My whole career, I've tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I've done a pretty good job of not getting typed.

The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.

To every rule there are diverse sub rules which all apply to the same rule.

We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.

It's all me. I'm not just one flavor. You're not, either. So it all comes down to which 'you' you want to show the world.

But why should I care what he's doing if I'm crazy about you?' 'We are allowed to have more than one feeling at once,' said Kenneth. 'We are human beings, not ants.

Even from behind, I knew the seated man was Garth. I'd seen him in chair, saddle, and by a campfire. I'd known him running with his hounds, grooming his horses, leaning back to look at the stars from the branches of a pine tree, hunched with concentration whittling a doll, carrying Alice through a storm, and even sparring with a dragon. A woman will know a man from all sides after that.

In truth, we are all fast and slow, strong and weak, motivated and lazy in a thousand tiny ways throughout our days that the generalizations simply don't capture.

The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.

She was a mixture of the unmixable. Not one expert in eighty could have guessed at her breed or breeds.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.

I will tell you why I became a philosopher. I became a philosopher because I wanted to be able to talk about many, many things, ideally with knowledge, but sometimes not quite the amount of knowledge that I would need if I were to be a specialist in them. It allows you to be many different things. And plurality and complexity are very, very important to me.

MDMA, it was beginning to be apparent, could be all things to all people.

Sometimes the alternative to black and white isn't gray; it's, say, orange.

Would not the proper conclusion, therefore—a conclusion not overstrained and if not stated with excessive dogmatism—seem to be, that literature, though demanding precedence in the affections, and exacting the chief attention of one who professes really to love it, is not a jealous mistress, but, on the contrary, is only too well pleased to see even its most attached votaries combine with their one supreme passion a number of minor interests and even minor affections.

I consider myself a general practitioner. I do electronic things. I do toys and water things, mechanical stuff. I'm very, very flexible.

To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach.