Mike Nichols Quotes

Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now.

Mike Nichols

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: November 6, 1931 - November 19, 2014

Topics

GreatPastLoseNowRightMost

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

Jim Morrison

HatredEmotionVeryUnderestimated

I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to Mahler, with his hysteria and self-indulgence.

Jeffrey Tate

TimeRomanticIdeasLanguageFast

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.

John Entwistle

MindDoingPlayWantOutGet

You may be trying to drive in a particular direction that people don't necessarily understand at first. In our case, we knew the users we had in mind for this product. So in the early days, we looked at our customers, really just testers at that point, and we paid extra attention to the teams we knew should be using Slack successfully.

Stewart Butterfield

PeopleMindDriveDirectionYou

I made a good living being a tough guy on TV, but I'd rather laugh and joke all day long than try to be a tough guy.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

GoodDayToughLaughLongLiving

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

Russell Banks

SimpleBookMotivationViewEasy

I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think I only do dramatic stuff. I do things that interest me.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

MusicPeopleMeThinkThingsSure

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

Lois Wyse

GenerationGrandchildrenConnectDots

There is no rank in sacrifice.

Josephus Daniels

SacrificeRank

If I get a cold, it lasts for a month.

Delta Goodrem

ColdMonthGetLasts

There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.

Bruce Dickinson

GoodTimeI AmThinkingOutStuff

I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.

Antony Garrett Lisi

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