Material Quotes

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We have more than enough to take care of everybody on earth at this time. If we have a shortage of anything, it's very easy… — Jacque Fresco
If orange trees grew all over the country, you couldn't sell oranges. Â Do you understand that? Â So, all our decision making is based… — Jacque Fresco
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life. — Bill Crawford
Mind is indeed the Builder . . . what is held in the act of mental vision becomes a reality in the material experience. We… — Edgar Cayce
For all healing, mental or material, is attuning each atom of the body, eachÂ reflex of the brain forces, to the awareness of the divine… — Edgar Cayce
Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises — Dennis Potter
Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure… — Czeslaw Milosz
For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand. — Beatrix Potter
Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material. — William M. Evarts
Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of it… — Aristide Maillol
Everything is in the way the material is composed. — Joseph O'Connor
I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material.… — Jerry Pournelle
Just listen to the material. What is it going to say? Just wait. Probably the material will tell you something. — Yohji Yamamoto
The basis and firm groundwork of the material, and its primary contribution, lies in the concept that consciousness itself indeed creates matter, that consciousness is… — Jane Roberts
Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea â€” whether itâ€™s… — Dan Ariely
Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly. — Robert McKee
Instead of the primitive raw material economy, we will create a smart economy generating unique knowledge, new useful things and technologies. Instead of the archaic… — Dmitry Medvedev
Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. The… — Andy Goldsworthy
I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is… — Andy Goldsworthy
Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the… — Andy Goldsworthy

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