65 Element Quotes On Success In Life
These element quotes will inspire you. Element, a substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances by chemical means or a part or aspect of something abstract, especially one that is essential or characteristic.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging element quotes, element sayings, and element proverbs.
Best Element Quotes
- “We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn’t hear it.” ~ Arto Lindsay
- “I’ve opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.” ~ Ziggy Marley
- “There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author’s own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.” ~ William Trevor
- “We all have so many different elements inside of us and we’re not all one thing.” ~ Jeremy Piven
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“The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.” ~ Brent Scowcroft
- “I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don’t think most artists feel their work is meaningless.” ~ Leonard Baskin
- “The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.” ~ Federico Garcia Lorca
- “Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.” ~ Michael Bolton
- “In all things and in all ways, choice impacts virtually every element of our life. It bears repeating that even those things which seem out of reach of our choice are governed by how we choose to perceive them.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
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“We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.” ~ William H. Gass
- “I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.” ~ Luis Barragan
- “The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “If you’re doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can’t forget that it’s primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.” ~ Robert Downey, Jr.
- “It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.” ~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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“I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.” ~ Brian Eno
- “I don’t try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.” ~ Norah Jones
- “We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.” ~ Casey Kasem
- “There’s definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it’s modern.” ~ Lenny Kravitz
- “Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli , Nature element quotes
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“No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.” ~ J. P. Morgan
- “Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess – players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.” ~ Boris Spassky
- “I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society – and well worth fighting for.” ~ Helen Suzman
- “Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry.” ~ Charlie Dent
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“I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it’s theater, film, TV.” ~ Chad Lowe
- “My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.” ~ Matthew Modine , Water element quotes
- “I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I’m much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.” ~ Michael Biehn
- “I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually” ~ Tom Selleck
- “Woman is also the element of conflict.” ~ Marcello Mastroianni
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“What I’m dealing with is sound. I don’t pretend to be dealing with music. I’m just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.” ~ Bill Laswell
- “I can’t say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I’ve learned from.” ~ Jenna Elfman
- “The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex” ~ Bobby Darin
- “Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.” ~ Dmitri Mendeleev
- “The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.” ~ Gabriel Marcel
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“It is the element I miss in electronic music – no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.” ~ Lukas Foss
- “There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.” ~ Gustav Stickley
- “The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.” ~ Wilhelm Wundt
- “But I don’t think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don’t have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.” ~ Antonio Tabucchi
- “Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.” ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what’s going on in my life.” ~ Cory Doctorow
- “Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.” ~ Wilson Greatbatch
- “It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.” ~ Pamela Stephenson
- “Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.” ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- “The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.” ~ Dmitri Mendeleev
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“Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, – the colours, sounds, and so forth – nothing apart from their so-called attributes.” ~ Ernst Mach
- “Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn’t effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it’s too much.” ~ Alejandro Amenabar
- “The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.” ~ Jan Garbarek
- “I’ve studied a lot of great people over the years – Pete Seeger, James Brown – and tried to incorporate elements that I’ve admired, though I can’t say I dance like James.” ~ John Fogerty
- “The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.” ~ Dmitri Mendeleev
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“A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.” ~ Charles de Gaulle
- “About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time, I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.” ~ Sidney Altman , Science element quotes
- “Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.” ~ Leonard Cohen
- “By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.” ~ John Dewey
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“Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.” ~ Christopher Eccleston
- “The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.” ~ Heinrich Heine
- “Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.” ~ J. Edgar Hoover
- “In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.” ~ Franz Kafka
- “To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.” ~ Liza Minnelli
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“One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.” ~ Itzhak Perlman
- “Directing is creating a whole. You’re able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.” ~ Tim Robbins
- “It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.” ~ Hu Shih
- “I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.” ~ Robert Smithson
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“My novels aren’t really generated by a single conceptual spark; it’s more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.” ~ Donna Tartt
- “Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is.” ~ Ron Ziegler
- “From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a filmmaker.” ~ Donnie Yen
