Material Quotes

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I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material, — Eric Mazur
And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I am not bound by material things. It's being successful that drives me forward. I love success. I don't wake up in the morning thinking… — Kevin Pietersen
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and… — Herbert Croly
Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery,… — P.J. O'Rourke
I have decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I really am like:… — Rosamond Lehmann
A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up… — Rosamond Lehmann
The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being. — Orson Pratt
When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to… — Jimmy Carter
As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation was too high… — Duane Elgin
I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional… — Alan Greenspan
Material objectives consume too much of our attention. The struggle for what we need or for more than we need exhausts our time and energy.… — Marion D. Hanks
Sadly, many individuals don't know where to find God, and exclude him from their lives. When spiritual needs arise, they may look to the left,… — Russell M. Nelson
Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known to be distributed… — John B. S. Haldane
Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit in a story… — Amy Holden Jones
If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the… — William James
The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact or of Christian… — F. F. Bruce
I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its… — Ludwig van Beethoven
It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s… — Alan Moore

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