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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
Denis Waitley
Life
Future
You
Creative
Vision
Become
Unknown
Out
Dream
Must
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Comfortable
Current
Unfamiliar
Break
Your
Zone
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates
Words
Language
Nothing
Virtue
Clearness
Chief
Unfamiliar
Much
Use
Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression.
H. P. Lovecraft
Day
Word
Become
Research
Add
Our
Independent
More
More And More
Never
Over
Without
Ready
Passed
Graceful
May
Unfamiliar
Little
Realm
Should
Each
Each Day
Expression
Conscientious
My name is not unfamiliar to anybody in the dance community. I'm talking the upper echelon of dance studios.
Abby Lee Miller
Dance
Community
Studios
Name
Talking
Upper
Unfamiliar
Anybody
Saxon, if you are unfamiliar, is a British heavy-metal band that has been around since the mid-'70s and was in no small part the inspiration for Spinal Tap.
Adam Schlesinger
You
Band
Saxon
Has-Been
Spinal
Spinal Tap
Small
Inspiration
Small Part
Part
Since
Around
Been
Tap
Unfamiliar
British
In case you're unfamiliar with TED, it is a series of short lectures on a variety of subjects that stream on the Internet for free.
Alex Pareene
You
Stream
Internet
Free
Case
Variety
Lectures
Subjects
Short
Unfamiliar
Series
Ted
A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.
Andrew Bird
Time
Day
Creative
Situation
Nothing
Sights
City
About
Most
Foreign
Sounds
Hearing
Off
Fertile
Walking
Just
Unfamiliar
After
Just Walking
Place
Agenda
Show
Imagine
I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
Ang Lee
World
Realistic
Somehow
Only
Mainstream
West
Lot
Shoot
American
Quite
Unfamiliar
Wanted
Which
Straight
Even
Population
Our perception of time is really driven by our perception of the unfamiliar, vivid, and new.
Brian Chesky
Time
Perception
Our
Vivid
Driven
New
Unfamiliar
Really
When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students.
Brian Greene
School
First
Relativity
High
High School
High School Students
General
General Relativity
Physicists
Students
Advanced
Put
Most
Math
Very
Unfamiliar
Teach
Forward
Now
The Cyrillic and Greek scripts in particular have an alien beauty in their unfamiliar letterforms. Five weights of stroke thickness create subtle variations in light and dark that reflect the emerging and fading of the stars.
Bruno Maag
Dark
Light
Alien
Beauty
Reflect
Stars
Stroke
Emerging
Variations
Fading
Weights
Particular
Five
Greek
Unfamiliar
Subtle
Scripts
Create
I didn't even think about good guy, bad guy when I started. I was that unfamiliar with the business.
Charlotte Flair
Good
Business
Think
Bad
Bad Guy
About
Guy
Unfamiliar
Even
Started
Good Guy
I'm a costume designer. My career is not in fashion, a field I'm basically unfamiliar with.
Chris March
Fashion
Field
Costume
Unfamiliar
Designer
Basically
Career
Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.
Cyril Falls
Leadership
Acceptance
Ensure
Particularly
Ready
Tradition
Contrary
Unfamiliar
Which
Necessary
England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.
Daniel Radcliffe
Home
Will
Year
Living
Spend
City
London
Pretty
Feels
New
Like
End
York
Going
Going Home
Unfamiliar
New York
Lovely
Certainly
England
As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with the courts can never hope to have.
David Blunkett
Hope
Home
Knowledge
Secretary
Way
System
Never
Individuals
Access
Courts
Unfamiliar
Former
Workings
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
David Trimble
Politics
Mountains
Bend
Must
Beam
Driving
Attention
Over
Reach
Hills
Close
Close Attention
Unfamiliar
Next
Paid
Night
I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a couple of scripts so I could see how the formatting works. I just needed to know how a Hollywood screenplay looked on the page, which was something I was totally unfamiliar with.
Diablo Cody
Gone
Books
Bookstore
See
Totally
Something
Could
Write
Had
Bought
Know
Looked
Couple
How
Any
Just
Unfamiliar
Screenplay
Which
While
Scripts
Hollywood
Page
Works
Needed
I'm trying to go over my lines. I woke up on the floor, somebody had me in their arms. I didn't quite know who, people looked so unfamiliar. That's about all I remember.
Dick York
Me
People
Remember
Somebody
About
Had
Over
Know
Looked
Arms
Go
Woke
Lines
Up
Trying
Quite
Unfamiliar
Who
Floor
To those many millions of you unfamiliar with my work, I play a caddish British doctor in practice with Mindy Kaling on her excellent sitcom 'The Mindy Project.'
Ed Weeks
Work
You
Doctor
Practice
Project
Those
Excellent
Sitcom
Unfamiliar
Many
Play
Her
Millions
British
And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.
Ednita Nazario
Music
Me
Important
More
Feels
None
Unfamiliar
Paul
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Death
Time
Difficult
Society
See
Fact
Spite
Never
Accept
Because
Unfamiliar
Happens
New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me.
Emily Mortimer
Time
Great
Me
Kind
About
Something
Feel
Miss
New
Like
Underestimated
Exotic
Very
York
Unfamiliar
New York
Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from criticism, run the risk of creating doubt where perhaps none would have naturally arisen.
Erin McKean
Words
Word
Criticism
Doubt
Distance
Run
Would
Hoping
Risk
Writers
Arisen
Perhaps
Know
None
Real
Unfamiliar
Where
Informal
Hedge
Themselves
Creating
Use
Naturally
Who
At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
Fernando Pessoa
First
Strikes
Unfamiliar
Then
Root
Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.
George Will
Politics
Government
Behavior
Analysis
Obama
Components
Seems
Economic
How
Behave
Unfamiliar
Influence
Interest
Public
Choice
Incentives
Theory
Groups
Utterly
Applying
Startled
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