"A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately."

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Source : Josef Von Sternberg (1988). “Fun in a Chinese Laundry”

Josef von Sternberg

#Light Quotes #Color Quotes #White Quotes

“A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.”
“In this [show] business you do something rock 'n' roll and then that's it, finished, heads roll. It's best not to take drugs, go to sex dungeons or cause controversy. And those who've done it - Russell Brand, Angus Deayton, whoever - they've really paid for it, even if what they've done is quite trivial.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.”
“To summarize: Americans have one of the greatest legal systems, but not a monopoly of the sense of justice, which is universal; nor have we a permanent copyright on the means of securing justice, for it is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.”

Source : Earl Warren (1959). “The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren”
“...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means.”
“I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just...going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it." - Marcus”
“Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.”
“A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.”

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