A Quote by Isobelle Carmody

Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity. — © Isobelle Carmody
Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.
Sometimes you have success and not so much success versus certain people.
The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.
Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.
Success is a refined study of the obvious
Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.
Every product demands a certain budget and with the kind of setup that we have brought together for 'Housefull 2,' there has to be certain expenditure involved.
There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.
An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.
The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.
Clothes can have a very refined vibration. An ochre robe can be extremely refined and so can a wonderful satin gown or a silk brocade coast.
After the success of 'Rumours,' we were in this zone with this certain scale of success. By that point, the success detaches from the music, and the success becomes about the success. The phenomenon becomes about the phenomenon.
There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity. You go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle, close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity.
In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you.
Of course it's normal for people to say, 'Yeah, this player changed teams because of the money.' That could be the case sometimes, but after a certain level of success? No.
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