Combination Quotes

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.

Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.

Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.

The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.

Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving export performance, and sustaining growth, in a way that is more sound and permanent.

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.

Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.

With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.

We don't see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and it's a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term.

The combination of a blazer over any T-shirt with a pair of jeans is foolproof.