The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I don't go through a torturous intellectual process to decide what to direct. I know what I want to direct the second… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Individually we can work on ourselves. By working on your own ego and developing truth, control, and an equitable inner dialogue, you… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
A lot of people ask, "What do you pull on in your own life from your character?" In all honesty, it's not… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something… — John Irving Copy Share Image
There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
To attain peace among the nations in any dynamic or enduring form requires not simply political negotiation but a new mode of… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination:… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing"… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Having lawyers who can set aside their own personal beliefs about their client's alleged behavior or their client's propensity to commit crimes… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
I've actually done more [music for] films than television. I love the process of writing for a film. I love that you… — Jeff Cardoni Copy Share Image
What I know for sure is that it's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow.… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour,… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
I miss that process of getting the script and reading it and working on it. Every actor has their own way of… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over...… — William James Copy Share Image
All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of reflection. Unreflective… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I've always loved the beauty world. Ever since I was a child, I looked at magazines and wore fragrances and tried out… — Aerin Lauder Copy Share Image
Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
True listening is never self-effacement. We bring the whole self to the process, rather than denying self. When we truly listen, we… — T. Thorn Coyle Copy Share Image
The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The federal government is a machine designed to increase its control over the lives of average Americans. It is constantly probing here,… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
All the things you need in the death transition, you need now in the life transition, because life is a transition, it… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Getting faculties to come to a consensus about something that they've never really thought about or had to worry about in their… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to… — Robert J. Wilson Copy Share Image
The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
It's funny how you can't ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a few feet and… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
While conversion of sugars to ethanol is the predominant reaction, it is only one of potentially thousands of biochemical reactions taking place… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
I am definitely less and less interested in music made by people that exist today, people that are living. I just see… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
I went to London to do the stuff. I was like "What am I going to do? What's going to happen?" But… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
If you view everything through the lens of fear, then you tend to stay in retreat mode. You can just as easily… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image