Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" There's an art to asking questions. Briefings are valuable but normally communicate primarily what the subordinate leader wants you to know, and often the picture they provide is incomplete. "

Stanley A. McChrystal

Leader

Picture

Know

Related Quotes:

" I like to learn. That's an art and a science. "

Katherine Johnson

Science

Learn

" Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do. "

" Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. "

" Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. "

" Art is too serious to be taken seriously. "

" The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. "

" The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. "

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Long

Moment

You

" Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel. "

" What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. "

Michel Foucault

Become

Art

" The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art. "

" Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed. "

" I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. "

" If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. "

" An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. "

" Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative. "

" The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and immediate response to life. "

" Painting and writing are solitary arts. "

" Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable. "

" Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. "

" A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. "

" Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. "

" Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love. "

" Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? "

" Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music. "

" Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste. "

" Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time. "

" I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. "

" In combat operations in places like Afghanistan, we often confronted the specter of dangerous people with powerful weapons who were a threat to their community and to our soldiers. Our aim was to quickly determine who in that community was a legitimate actor who could be trusted with a firearm and who was not. "

Stanley A. McChrystal

Community

Powerful

People

" Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Experience

Long

Perfect

" Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components. "