The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good.… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My stories often begin with a situation or character rather than an insight about the human condition. It's always been difficult for… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He… — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to… — Paul F. M. Zahl Copy Share Image
I love monsters. If I go to a church, I'm more interested in the gargoyles than the saints. I really don't care… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Other ways of looking at the environmental or climate change stuff is to frame it in the context that it is simultaneously… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me doubtfully. He was… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
[My work] looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar… — Nicolas Provost Copy Share Image
Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they… — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
Although a lot of my work on the mind has been rather abstract and philosophical, I'm interested in psychology and neuroscience and… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract… — Lev Vygotsky Copy Share Image
I think games are a good medium for approaching any subject, particularly difficult ones, because by their very nature, they are abstract,… — Brenda Brathwaite Copy Share Image
Let your works not be interrupted by the stupidities happening in your own country! Work and walk on your true path ignoring… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and… — Ernest Fenollosa Copy Share Image
The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying… — William James Copy Share Image
Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical… — Peter Cheeke Copy Share Image
A real spirituality must be rooted in earthliness. Any spirituality that denies the earth, rejects the earth, becomes abstract, becomes airy-fairy. It… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Maybe stalking the woods is as vital to the human condition as playing music or putting words to paper. Maybe hunting has… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Community is another such phenomenon. Like electricity, it is profoundly lawful. Yet there remains something about it that is inherently mysterious, miraculous,… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see… — Giorgio Morandi Copy Share Image
“Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either "have" or "have not." In fact, there is no such thing as "freedom"… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Life holds many, many, many mysteries, abstract things we all think about. In a film when things get abstract, some people don't… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The corporeal element in man is a large screen and partition that prevents him from perfectly perceiving abstract ideals; this would be… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
![“When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.'” quote by Niels Bohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3d/niels-bohr-4542_abstract_when-asked-about-an-underlying-quantum-w_1467547.png)
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