Material Quotes

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Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing… — Nikola Tesla
Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a… — Robert M. Pirsig
Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly. — Anne Lamott
Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be… — Anne Lamott
The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and… — Patti Smith
There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what… — Madeleine L'Engle
But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health… — Aldo Leopold
Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material… — Adolf Hitler
We may now have reached a point where this gap in our make-up has become unsustainable; partly because what in the past would have counted… — Dalai Lama
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is… — Karl Marx
One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. — Emily Dickinson
Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that… — Fernando Pessoa
You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship — Mitch Albom
Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are… — Libba Bray
I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and… — Anne Lamott
Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched… — Laurie R. King
with a touch of sarcasm. â€œGlass is an amazing material. Versatile, — Maria V. Snyder
Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then… — Anais Nin
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality… — Iain Pears
You can present the material, but you can't make me care. — Bill Watterson

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