Top 27 Quotes About Commissioning
#1. There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.
Frank Pierson
#2. One of the great joys of launching your idea on the web is that it's a meritocracy. The good stuff will rise to the top and find an audience, and you don't have to impress one idiosyncratic commissioning editor.
Rob Manuel
#3. I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
Malorie Blackman
#4. The challenge at this point is helping a brand understand they're not just commissioning a viral video but tapping into an existing fan base and an audience that's very loyal ... It's two brands working together: the Rhett and Link brand and their brand.
Charles Lincoln Neal
#5. The China Rich seem to be spending on a scale that's just beyond anything we've ever seen before. They are building and buying an insane amount of luxury residences around the world, commissioning huge flying palaces from Boeing, and paying ridiculous amounts for art.
Kevin Kwan
#6. When the 'Guardian' is commissioning writers to write obituary pieces about you and your career ... it doesn't get much nastier than that. And you've just got to go, 'It doesn't actually matter.'
James Corden
#7. Commissioning a study of a thousand pages may jeopardize a certain project efficiently.
Eraldo Banovac
#8. With the commissioning of new schools undertaken by a local director of school standards, decisions will be fair and transparent, rooted in the needs of the local community. The admissions code and the role of the adjudicator will also be strengthened to provide fairness for all children.
David Blunkett
#9. When I was commissioning a brand new solar photovoltaic utility site, I came across metal tubes installed into the fuseholders that were marked up as 100 amp fuses on the diagram. Needless to say, it had already gone on fire.
Steven Magee
#10. He was keen to use English as well as French in daily conversation, writing letters in English and commissioning translations of French and Latin books.
Ian Mortimer
#11. I think all poems are commissioned. They just come to me without somebody outside commissioning them. The idea comes and I will live with them 'til I get it as close to what I mean. I've never been totally satisfied. I've come close a few times.
Maya Angelou
#12. In order to complete any successful and streamlined qualification effort, a comprehensive plan should be developed which bridges the GEP/commissioning phases with the qualification phases of the project.
Robert A. Young
#13. I'll only push you to your limit, and then I'll nudge you the rest of the way into blissful oblivion.
Avery Flynn
#14. I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.
Mike White
#18. You never know if you can actually do something against all odds until you actually do it.
Abby Wambach
#19. That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#20. My interest is in the Wests Tigers. Nobody can support a team that is all the time on the bottom; that's a waste of time.
Harry Triguboff
#21. Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
Laura Dern
#22. When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.
L. Ron Hubbard
#23. We're all traitors now." "Ha!" the old lady said. "Only if we lose.
James S.A. Corey
#24. Tech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). It's the weirdest bubble when everyone hates everything.
Marc Andreessen
#25. Every mind needs friendly contact with other minds, for food of expansion and growth.
Napoleon Hill
#26. Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
Carmen Kass
#27. He tells about his Sudanese roommate at Georgetown who owned a prayer rug with a compass to find Mecca built right into it. "After a few weeks in America, he rolled it up and used the compass to go camping," Han says.
Diana Abu-Jaber