It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good . — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Velázquez, past the age of fifty, no longer painted specific objects. He drifted around things like the air, like twilight, catching unawares… — Elie Faure Copy Share Image
Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
When listening to the sound material, we metamorphose the inside into an outside. This notion of metamorphosis is one of the principles… — Bernard Parmegiani Copy Share Image
I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects. — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves. — William C. Wright Copy Share Image
If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely… — Wu Guanzhong Copy Share Image
It is good to come to a country you know practically nothing about. Your thoughts grow still, useless. Everything must be rebuilt.… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
It is of course evident that everything in one's religious life depends upon the sort of God one worships. The character of… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly. — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
“Some objects seem to disappear immediately while others never want to leave. Here is a small black plastic gizmo with a serious… — Louis Jenkins Copy Share Image
The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The rishis of old attained the Knowledge of Brahman. One cannot have this so long as there is the slightest trace of… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
To get salvation we must not only do some things, but everything which God has commanded...The object with me is to obey… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Rather, the master question from which the mission of education research is derived: What should be taught to whom, and with what… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If the sewing societies, the avails of whose industry are now expended in supporting and educating young men for the ministry, were… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much… — George Cayley Copy Share Image
The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an… — William James Copy Share Image
What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves... In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday… — Gabriel Orozco Copy Share Image
![“[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an…” quote by John Stuart Mill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/464/john-stuart-mill-477_consciousness_i-put-the-question-directly-to-myself-su_1931447.jpg)
