Eduardo Chillida Quotes

Every good, successful player, especially an attacking player, has a well-developed sense of space and time.

A lot of filmmaking is an endurance contest between you and the people you're filming. Every time that you relax, I promise you, something interesting will happen.

Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.

Every time I catch the ball, I'm seeing a lot of bodies. The key for me is not to force.

I'll carry a ball around with me all day and ask people to try to knock it out of my hand when I least expect it. I'll give them some money and stuff, so people get pretty geeked up about that. It just helps me to take care of the ball without even thinking about it.

You have to create a habit of finding the right positions and knowing where the ball's going to bounce to.

Defending is mostly about focus.

You have got to let the ball come to you as a keeper.

It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you're waiting for something, it seems to take longer.

I do my stuff, my "mixtapes," as you say. We just need time to capture. After that, I do not know what he thinks, but for me, it is time to get things together.

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

We'll grow old waiting.

I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a little' of my time that five minutes of the wrong kind of distraction can ruin a working day.

I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.

Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three hours with no ideas coming to me. But I know one thing. If an idea does come between 9 and 12 I am there ready for it.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

Time is very important to art and if you don't have the time to select, art goes out the window.

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?" "Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel." "And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?

There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.