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Foreground Quotes

We’ve collected the best Foreground Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Hope Jahren, Ruth J. Simmons, Max Richter, Chaim Potok, Geoffrey Rush. Use them as an inspiration.

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I think we get used to not seeing the green things around us. I think they become the backdrop of our lives. And I think you actively have to ask somebody to request that they put that in the foreground.
Hope Jahren
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It’s very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.
Ruth J. Simmons
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When I was a kid, there were really only two possible futures in the foreground, which were Orwell‘s ‘1984’ and Huxley’s ‘Brave New World‘.
Max Richter
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There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it’s certainly present in the early work.
Chaim Potok
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It’s their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground.
Geoffrey Rush
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The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting.
Hjalmar Schacht
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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
Raymond Chandler
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Disguising your own origins is a deeply American impulse, but that doesn’t make it any less compromising. The way I live my life is to try to foreground the tensions and paradoxes of being a white person who‘s interested in racial justice and reconciliation, rather than disguise or obliterate them.
Jess Row
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Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.
Donella Meadows
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Of course, the attacking players get the attention because they score the goals, score nice goals, and those are the moments that remain in memory. But I wish that other players who are not in the foreground, who still perform well for their club or association, get more recognition.
Niko Kovac
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We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.
Constantin Stanislavski
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I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance – on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist‘s response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on.
Charles Stross
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
Edith Wharton
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
H. R. Giger
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When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
Brian Eno
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Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life’s wisdom.
Wislawa Szymborska