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"Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level."

"Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can."

"It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."

"When the new ownership came in, they made some decisions I wasn't pleased with. And when they changed the whole aspect of it, I just totally lost interest."

"For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align, and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time."

"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."

"There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions."

"We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report."

"The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law."
Explore more quotes by Alva Noto


"I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case."


"When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it."


"The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?"


"Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly."


"One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one."


"I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically."


"It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence."


"I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding."


"It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other."
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