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Whatever you go into, you have to go in there to be the best. There's no formulas. It's all about passion and honesty and hard work. It might look glamorous, but it takes a lot of hard work. The blessing with the arts is that you can do it forever.
Hugh Masekela
Work
Hard Work
Best
You
Blessing
You Can Do It
Honesty
Passion
Whatever
About
Glamorous
Takes
Look
Go
Lot
Forever
Arts
Formulas
Might
Hard
Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
Adam McKay
Amazing
Complex
Ability
Take
Concepts
Michael
Formulas
Them
Turn
Lewis
I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
Alan Dundes
Future
Time
Worldview
Past
Mentioned
Involves
American
Formulas
Present
Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.
Constantin Brancusi
Work
God
You
Joy
Pure
Seen
Those
See
Pure Joy
Mystery
Obscure
Look
Until
Offer
Closest
Formulas
Them
Sculptures
We periodically note that there are no silver bullets, there are no magic formulas, there's no single action or component of the overall... comprehensive civil-military approach.
David Petraeus
Single
Action
Approach
Component
Magic
Silver
Comprehensive
Overall
Bullets
Note
Formulas
Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.
Douglas Rushkoff
Sports
Money
Win
Long
Way
Oakland
Some
General
Bean
Only
Long Way
Developing
Toward
Amateur
Hiring
Salary
Up
Ended
Managers
Available
Formulas
Fantasy
Creating
Used
Games
Less
Billy
Star
Players
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
E. T. Bell
Doubt
Indeed
Degenerate
No Doubt
Pretty
Silly
General
Generalities
Pursuit
Particular
Quest
Austere
Very
Quickly
Any
Vice
Which
Formulas
Incapable
Theorems
Neat
Application
My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any author who's not simply writing formulas - who's trying to create something new - pressuring them to do something for market purposes almost always backfires. I can't imagine working under those circumstances, actually.
Elizabeth Kostova
Me
Wise
Writing
Wonderful
Enough
Market
Those
Circumstances
Something
Something New
Purposes
Write
Simply
Almost
New
Know
Because
Always
Author
Trying
Any
Wanted
Formulas
Them
Create
Working
Publishers
Actually
Imagine
My vision was to create makeup that was more transparent but with formulas that last. I follow my instincts - it's all very spontaneous!
Francois Nars
Vision
Follow
More
Instincts
Spontaneous
Makeup
Very
Formulas
Create
Transparent
Last
The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.
Gary Wolf
Problem
Words
Matter
Internet
Important
Ourselves
Torment
Details
Only
Dates
Could
Facts
Remembering
Perhaps
Looked
Learn
Historical
Up
Forgetting
Formulas
Might
Us
Much
Really
Convince
Things
I enjoyed like nothing else working in pure math, discovering new formulas.
Jerry McNerney
Pure
Nothing
Else
New
Like
Math
Discovering
Formulas
Working
Enjoyed
Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people into thinking, 'Well if I can just do that, then everything's going to be okay.' My work differs in that I don't offer quick solutions and simple explanations.
John Bradshaw
Work
You
People
Simple
Thinking
Everything
Books
Okay
Solutions
Give
Well
Tidy
Self-Help
Quick
Offer
Dupe
Going
Just
Formulas
Explanations
Then
Really
Many
Illusions
Neat
Differs
But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.
John Buchanan Robinson
Own
Above
More
Only
Individual
He
Institutions
Make
Accepting
His
Exist
Than
Egoism
Formulas
Them
Far
Realization
Chooses
It's so funny that Hollywood has become so entrenched in its formulas. Because what I've experienced is that the good stuff comes from places you don't expect.
John Cho
Funny
Good
You
Become
Entrenched
Stuff
Because
Expect
Experienced
Places
Formulas
Hollywood
We do not need answers or formulas to minister in crisis.
John Ortberg
Crisis
Minister
Answers
Formulas
Need
Trout plus bacon is one of civilization's greatest formulas; it always equals pleasure.
Jonathan Miles
Pleasure
Bacon
Plus
Civilization
Trout
Equals
Greatest
Always
Formulas
You know, people come up with formulas who are uncreative. They can't picture something different so they can only go by something that's laid out for them.
Joseph Bologna
You
People
Picture
Out
Something
Only
Come
Know
Go
Up
Different
Laid
Formulas
Them
Who
When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's pretty much an assembly job - you can mix and match a different way every time.
Julia Child
Time
You
Cake
Will
Job
Few
Every
Every Time
Way
Find
Pretty
Ideas
Match
Mix
Repertoire
Different
Formulas
Much
Your
Assembly
Filling
Different Way
You can be imaginative, you have the technology to convert your vision, you have the freedom to write the kind of stories you want to tell beyond the set formulas. Also, you have varied platforms to tell different kinds of stories.
Kanika Dhillon
Freedom
You
Technology
Vision
Different Kinds
Tell
Kind
Kinds
Varied
Write
Beyond
Also
Different
Want
Stories
Convert
Formulas
Your
Platforms
Imaginative
Set
People love our triple-milled, super-high-pigmented soft supermatte formulas.
Kat Von D
Love
People
Our
Formulas
Soft
Directors only have instinct to work out of, because there is no formula. Formulas don't work. Actually, if you follow a formula, you will probably end up with a bad movie.
Patricia Riggen
Work
You
Will
Out
Bad
Follow
Only
Bad Movie
Directors
Instinct
Because
End
Up
Movie
Formula
Formulas
Work Out
Actually
Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.
Paul Kane
Others
Broke
Hopefully
Would
Kinder
Would-Be
Tried
Some
Writers
Sure
Tested
Mixture
Than
Fix
Unexpected
Formulas
Might
Describe
Techniques
Twists
I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tender' or 'universal.' But to the real question of what's inside: I avoid books that seem to conservatively follow stale formulas. I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that.
Rachel Kushner
Ugly
Books
Plot
Inside
Follow
About
Seem
Steer
Tender
Clear
Read
Real
Covers
Question
Real Question
Story
Formulas
Stale
Sweeping
Avoid
Universal
It is impossible to know what people will like. No market research, formulas will help, it's best to stop guessing.
Rajkumar Hirani
Best
People
Impossible
Will
Research
Market
Guessing
Like
Know
Stop
Formulas
Help
I'm interested in exploring the places where all media meet. As TV, Internet, art, games and movies all start moving towards the same point, I want to be part of inventing that space. I'd like to explore media that are traditionally seen as part of the mainstream but not necessarily utilize mainstream formulas.
Ryan Trecartin
Art
Space
Internet
Seen
Meet
TV
Inventing
Point
Part
Mainstream
Towards
Like
Same
Where
Want
Interested
Places
Movies
Moving
Formulas
Explore
Exploring
Games
Media
Utilize
Necessarily
Start
Every cancer is different. The symptoms and treatments are different, and every human body deals with it differently. There are no formulas to it. That, I think, was the biggest takeaway for me.
Sonali Bendre
Me
Cancer
Every
Think
Symptoms
Deals
Human
Different
Human Body
Biggest
Formulas
Body
Differently
Treatments
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