Quotes for All
I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don’t think perfection is very artful. But there’s something I liked about the image of a skater going in this endless twisted circle that doesn’t have any real endpoint. So the object is not to stop … Read more
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present. Eckhart Tolle
As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion. Friedrich Nietzsche
I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit. FKA twigs
World is supposed to mean something that’s self-contained. but nothing is self-contained. Don DeLillo
With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences. Doc Brown
Since the songs were written over a five-year period, I think these are little snapshots. Some people call it political or topical, but I think each song is self-contained. I think it fits together as a picture of the last half-decade of time. Conor Oberst
Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there’s ever anything that deals with a character’s personal life, you don’t have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don’t have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit. Christopher Meloni
When you look at your freelance career, it’s really like a mall. And if you look at a mall, it’s a self-contained system that has a flow and logic to it. You’ll probably have one or two really bigger jobs, those are like your anchor stores. Chris Hardwick
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them. Catherine Drinker Bowen