Materials Quotes · Page 150

I strive to find materials that will engage students, expand their capacities as critical readers and thinkers, and feel immediately relevant to…

— Dean Spade

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market. It is not clear what they have bought, how many…

— Akbar Ganji

The thing I noticed is that a lot of times great material can get ruined if its not in the right hands.

— Charlize Theron

I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories,…

— John Eccles

We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total…

— Arthur Blank

I never really write the jokes. I just sit down over a week or two and try to figure out what I…

— Chris Rock

I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.

— Benny Hinn

The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through…

— Fred Hoyle

Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.

— John Stuart Mill

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials…

— Caroline Pratt

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

— Ron Suskind

Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions.

— Yoko Ogawa

Business schools are failing to teach the students about the risks of market failures. We need to include some material on market…

— Pankaj Ghemawat

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

There's no room for failure performing [stand-up] for a black audience. If you don't get them right away it's tough winning them…

— Hannibal Buress

See to it, night and day, that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers…

— Ole Hallesby

The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.

— Antoni Tapies

I always find with my stories that the way they start is that I just get so interested in a person that…

— Michael Lewis

Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an…

— Bertrand Russell

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do…

— Gertrude Stein

Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so…

— Haley Reinhart

Abundance is the natural state of the universe--of this there can be no doubt. Just as the number of stars in the…

— Douglas Bloch

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

— Tim Jackson