#lock

I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#afternoon #clock #desk #dream #early

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on! ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#academically #big #broom #changed #could

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#audience #been #blockbusters #brought #down

I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system. ↗

— Peter Thiel

#around #breakthroughs #cannot #clock #compute

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. ↗

— Tillie Olsen

#away #clock #i #loud #me

When you are grateful - when you can see what you have - you unlock blessings to flow in your life. ↗

— Suze Orman

#flow #grateful #life #see #unlock

The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders. ↗

— Jim Otto

#differently #hands #head #instead #nfl

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain. ↗

— Thomas Otway

#clocks #constant #go #irregular #man

You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day. ↗

— Buck Owens

#clock #day #get #hours #kind

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine. ↗

— Heinz R. Pagels

#clock #contingency #determinism #having #machine