"I think it's often easier to theorize in the official codes of theory rather than to theorize lightly through scene, object, story, and incident in ways that keeps alive the sensual serendipities of language. This is not a question of being for or against theory, but rather of being suspicious of orthodoxies that concede, in advance, that what passes for theory must be signaled by a narrowing of diction, sentence rhythms, and sensual awareness. I'm in favor of surprise."

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Rob Nixon

#Thinking Quotes #Serendipity Quotes #Sensual Quotes

“Most fans probably wouldn't understand that because they're not in bands, but when there's too many cooks in the kitchen it can really ruin things, it can destroy a band. So for me and Burt to approach it as just two guys it makes things a lot easier. This may sound selfish but it was less people we had to share our ideas with so there was less interference.”

Source : Source: theindiespiritualist.com
“Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.”

Source : Leonard Mlodinow (2012). “Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior”, p.117, Vintage
“All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.”
“Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.”

Source : Ron Suskind (2012). “Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President”, p.84, Harper Collins
“If it isn't going to matter to you in 5 years, quit stressing about it. (Also, quit b*tching about it. It might matter when you're all alone in 5 yrs because you're annoying now.)”
“I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn't have to chat.”
“When you fall into a midseason slot, you have the sort of blessing of not being on television while you shoot most of your season.”
“[John] Adams's perception of Europe, and especially France, was clearly different than [Tomas] Jefferson's. For Jefferson, the luxury and sophistication of Europe only made American simplicity and virtue appear dearer. For Adams, by contrast, Europe represented what America was fast becoming - a society consumed by luxury and vice and fundamentally riven by a struggle between rich and poor, gentlemen and commoners.”

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