Material Quotes

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Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are… — Eckhart Tolle
I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of… — Mario Vargas Llosa
On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and… — Bill Hicks
As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your life, at the… — Tim O'Brien
It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one… — Thomas Merton
... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness… — Marianne Moore
It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone… — Robin McKinley
I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary. — Rob Thomas
With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and… — Edith Wharton
I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book. — Patti Smith
The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It… — Carl Jung
None of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we were a book… — Marcel Proust
Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world?… — Arthur Conan Doyle
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

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