Element Quotes

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The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why I don't want… — Gavin Bryars
Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure. — Saul Bass
Making two possibilities a reality. Predicting the future of things we all know. Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries. Science fails… — Serj Tankian
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the same as God… — Josef Pieper
The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house design, the… — E. J. W. Barber
To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their… — Aristotle
What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual,… — Plato
I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in future wars, and… — Giulio Douhet
Most women in our culture, then, are disordered when it comes to issues of self-worth, self-entitlement, self-nourishment, and comfort with their own bodies; eating disorders,… — Susan Bordo
Regardless of the number of precautions that we take to save our necks, part of the attraction of going out on the water in the… — Harold Payson
Be guided by the Spirit. I have said so many times to my Brethren that the Spirit is the most important single element in this… — Ezra Taft Benson
For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the… — Sergei Eisenstein
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an… — Walter Pater
But success shall crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracking a secure way over the pathless seas: the very stars themselves… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Condemning all women in order to help some misguided men get over their foolish behaviour is tantamount to denouncing fire, which is a vital and… — Christine de Pizan
When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't. There… — Lucian Freud
Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion. — Dinesh D'Souza
The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from… — Jimmy Page

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