Object Quotes

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I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl. — Virginia Woolf
We are 25 years too late. If the object is to avoid dangerous change, we've already had it. The object now is to avoid really… — Stephen Schneider
When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign… — Damon Albarn
I wanted to make a concrete impression; the idea of a woman that is free, moody, never the object, one that has a complete control… — Paco Rabanne
A perfume is an intimate object, it is the reflector of the heart. — Emanuel Ungaro
Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn't so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire. — Jean Paul Gaultier
The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does… — Arnold Bennett
Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know weâ€™re going to die?… — William Peter Blatty
The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in the… — Pope Paul VI
But the knowledge and love of our Divine Redeemer, of which we were the object from the first moment of His Incarnation, exceed all that… — Pope Pius XII
As Our Predecessors have many times repeated, let no man think that he may for any reason whatsoever join the Masonic sect, if he values… — Pope Leo XIII
I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be — Franz Boas
I believe that we can accomplish any object that we make up our minds to, and no boy or girl ought to sit down and… — Heber J. Grant
The time and thought which most persons waste in aimless effort would accomplish wonders if properly directed with some special object in view. In order… — Charles F. Haanel
In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and… — Ry Cooder
We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the constitution of our land, and believe that the Lord raised up men purposely for the… — Lorenzo Snow
In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends… — Alexandre Kojeve
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist… — Henri Matisse
Beauty is the love that we devote to an object. — Paul Serusier

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