Quotes on Style

I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much.

If you understand gender differences in what I call 'conversational style', you may not be able to prevent disagreements from arising, but you stand a better chance of preventing them from spiraling out of control.

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

I had imagined doing nuclear physics and cosmic ray work in greater style in peace time. To do modern physics in a small way is of no use of all.

I don't do style. I just show up for the games.

Football is a great love because I was born into a family of players and therefore born into football. I'm fortunate to have a style of play that a lot of people like. It's a privilege to be able to do what I like best and in my own way, but I'm fortunate that people like it, and that motivates me even more.

If you are going to be a great investor, you have to fit the style to who you are.

I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an old silent movie, to a runaway locomotive rushing headlong toward a very singular catastrophe

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.

If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it is probably great.