Cogs famous quotes

Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.
-- David Corbett

#Character #Cogs #Plot

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.
-- Deborah Tannen

#Communication #Independence #Cogs

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
-- Douglas Coupland

#Worry #Cogs #Eccentric

Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.
-- Ha Jin

#Writing #Voice #Cogs

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
-- Hans Hofmann

#Color #Together #Cogs

It stems from my Australianisms and belief that everyone is a fundamental cog in the wheel.
-- Janet Holmes a Court

#Leadership #Cogs #Fundamentals

Okay - the world needs its cogs, all of them; and even a cog may say how it gets used. In fact, only a cog may determine its eventual meaning in the system. That's what I wanted to tell you.
-- Keigo Higashino

#Facts #Cogs #Needs

When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.
-- Ken Knabb

#Cogs #Machines #Wonder

You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.
-- Nick Cave

#Evil #Cogs #Plans

I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.
-- Paddy Considine

#Jobs #People #Cogs

I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice
-- Peter Rollins

#Cogs #Injustice #Resurrection

In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.
-- Samuel Goldwyn

#Important #Wheels #Cogs

What makes Disney movies and Pixar movies always so good, hey take time and they're constantly honing, and tweaking, and rejiggering things, and taking influences from every cog, including myself, that can help. Any place where there can be inspiration. They make every moment very layered and very rich.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Inspiration #Cogs #Hey

If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world.
-- Steve Gleason

#People #Inspire #Cogs

The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.
-- Theodore Kaczynski

#Long #Suffering #Cogs

A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.
-- Trevor Baylis

#Ideas #Mind #Cogs

I only wanted to be a good employee who generated as much profit as possible for his employer. I was merely a small cog in the machine - and now I'm suddenly supposedly the main person responsible for the financial crisis.
-- Jerome Kerviel

#Cogs #Machines #Financial