#takes

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted. ↗

— Jessie Matthews

#always #enabling #fact #films #i

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#determined #few #leaders #majority #make

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage. ↗

— Stephanie Mills

#given #going #haven #i #keep

The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces cost. When you believe your flaws will be quickly corrected by the group, you're less worried about perfecting your contribution, which leads to a more candid conversation. We can only get it right when we talk about what we got wrong. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

#creativity #groups #mistakes #right-and-wrong #imagination

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#eventually #longer #obscure #obvious #see

Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#asked #between #campaign #candidates #choice

To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#even #fingers #go #go away #hit

As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole. ↗

— Lance Secretan

#cannot #commitment #effective #focused #leaders

A moment of brilliance is not good enough to pay for your mistakes, it's taking responsibility ↗

— Mohamed Mohamed Adel

#life-lessons #mistakes #responsibility #life

Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#director #directs #done #film #films