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«Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.»
Author: Adam Smith
| Keywords:
directing, domestic, intends, intention, invisible hand, preferring, promote, promoting, public interest, The Public Interest
«Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven.»
Author: I Ching
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appointed, awakening, awakenings, depths, directing, originate, originate in, primal, verse
«The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.»
Author: John Huston
(Film Director)
| Keywords:
Coming out, controlling, directing, move on, moving picture, picture frame, Small World
«Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know.»
Author: Jonathan Miller
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Doctors
| Keywords:
directing, manifold, reconstruct, reconstructing, to the point
«When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all.»
«Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest that an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| Keywords:
craftsman, directing, interpretive, motion picture, Motion pictures, nearest, The Motion Picture
«Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.»
«They said: O Shu'aib! does your prayer enjoin you that we should forsake what our fathers worshipped or that we should not do what we please with regard to our property? Forsooth you are the forbearing, the right-directing one.»
Author: quran
| About:
Prayer
| Keywords:
directing, enjoin, enjoins, forbearing, forsake, forsooth, regard to, with regard to, worshipped
«The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men»
«In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
aberration, aberrations, childish, directing, equilibrium, follies, inheriting, justifies, Left Behind, naively
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