#slight

If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life. ↗

— Halle Berry

#another #could #direction #give #goal

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind. ↗

— Herbert Read

#evolution #form #higher #i #individuation

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way. ↗

— Adam Brody

#came #different #different way #how #i

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#being #constantly #could #make #slightly

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#aversion #cerebral #deep #deep down #down

What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better. ↗

— Campbell Scott

#better #even #great #hours #lives

It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include. ↗

— John Sexton

#camera #elements #find #glass #green

When they meet a stand-up comic, people sometimes remark: 'That must be the hardest job in the world.' Among comedians, only Freddie Starr is not embarrassed and slightly appalled by this remark. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#appalled #comedians #comic #embarrassed #freddie

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#humble #later #let us #lose #magnitude