Attaching Quotes

43 quotes by 36 authors

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what… — William Cobbett
I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life. — Jeffrey Eugenides
The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a… — Marketa Irglova
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What… — Eric Hoffer
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. — George Santayana
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege. — Bell Hooks
Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems… — John Dewey
Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the… — Leo Tolstoy
The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the… — Eckhart Tolle
A thought is harmless unless we believe it. Itâ€™s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought… — Byron Katie
Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the alter,and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however shunned society, and,… — Edgar Allan Poe
What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something… — R C Sproul
What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself… — Anne Carson
Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously. — Hermann Hesse
Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to… — Thomas Bernhard
The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by… — John Dewey
Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning,… — Tino Sehgal
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence. — Frances Wright
Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names. — Taraji P. Henson

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