Profound Quotes

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Whatever the drawbacks and failures I am convinced that in years to come humanity will look back to Soviet achievements as a source of profound… — Ronnie Kasrils
Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as… — James Turrell
Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect In this… — Gary Zukav
In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having… — Chris Stein
If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my patients tell me… — Heinz Kohut
In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in. — David Markson
Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of… — Michel Houellebecq
To successfully respond to the myriad of changes that shake the world, transformation into a new style of management is required. The route to take… — W. Edwards Deming
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. — George Santayana
Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you… — Kenneth Lonergan
There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. — G. H. Hardy
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to… — G. H. Hardy
True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of… — Bill W.
Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound fulfillment that suffuses… — Matthieu Ricard
It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I now look at… — Julia Sweeney
Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly. — Robert McKee
Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph… — Robert McKee
At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Nothing profound ever happens in your life when you remain in your comfort zone. — Bill Courtney
It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill… — Joshua Waitzkin
Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that… — Michael Hardt
In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it is immensely refreshing… — Unknown Author
The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to… — Simon Winchester
America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be. — A. A. Gill
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of… — Carol Muske-Dukes

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