A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.
We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself.
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.
Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.
A song is anything that can walk by itself.
One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
The competition to get above the rest and be the lead commentator, or whatever you want to call it, is much fiercer than it was when I was starting out. By the same token, there were not as many jobs going back then, so to get one was an achievement in itself.
Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.
Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.
Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
Seeing is in itself a movement.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.
The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life interest in Tolstoy or even crossword puzzles is unlikely to appear, no matter the urging by well-intentioned social workers or people like me who write books about it.
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.
Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.
Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself.
Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not.
Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
Revolution is not a goal in itself.
Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.