Material Quotes

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Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician can use to… — Chuck Israels
What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many ways to deal… — Pete La Roca
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the… — Michelangelo
I cannot disagree with you that having something like 500 economists is extremely unhealthy. As you say, it is not conducive to independent, objective research.… — Milton Friedman
The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple… — Napoleon Hill
With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over the biplane. — Glenn Curtiss
The mental pattern must always precede the material form. — William Walker Atkinson
The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological… — Ray Kurzweil
Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality — Dallin H. Oaks
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered… — Wendell Phillips
For nearly a quarter of a century, I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe and human behavior.… — L. Ron Hubbard
To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making… — Dion Fortune
This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account a child's special… — Maria Montessori
If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species,… — Jared Diamond
It is only within the context of having properly developed your mind that you will be able to truly enjoy the achievement of your material… — Mike Mentzer
My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is… — James Turrell
I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it. — John Chamberlain
I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to… — John Chamberlain
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious… — Bill Mollison

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