V Quotes
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“Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job.”
Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In
“Visiting the fields is more sacred than visiting the temples because our existence is based on fields and not on temples!”
“Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for example, I was struck by its marginalization of any other victims apart from the Jews, to the extent that it presented photographs of dead bodies in camps such as Buchenwald or Dauchau as dead Jewish bodies, when in fact relatively few Jewish prisoners were held there.”
Source: Lying About Hitler
“Visiting the past is something like visiting a foreign country: they do some things the same and some things differently, but above all else, they make us more aware of what we call 'home.”
“Visiting the sick is supposed to exhibit such great virtue that there are some people determined to do it whether the sick like it or not. ... All visitors everywhere are supposed to make plans to depart if they observe their hosts visibly wilting or in pain, but this is especially true at hospitals.”
Source: Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility
“Visitors are not permitted to see me twice. You will have to join the cult in order to do so. If the visitor sees me for the second time, he does not recognize me.”
Source: The Pink Cadillac
“Visitors entering the auditorium will notice a rainbow in the centre of the eastern gable, between two arches. This arcs above a portrait of Gray's Bella Baxter from his novel Poor Things (Gray 1992), here renamed Bella Caledonia, a Scottish heroine depicyed with tartan draped over her arm, holding a thistle. The words 'LET US FLOURISH BY TELLING THE TRUTH' accompany her. But that textual message, adapted from 'Let Glasgow Flourish', the motto on Glasgow's coat of arms, is one of multiple instructions.”
Source: Scottish Writing After Devolution: Edges of the New
“Visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on; Ian is dead now and will be dead tomorrow and next year and forever. There's no end to that. But perhaps there will be an end to the sorrow of it.”
“Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands for personal attendance. They should not carry their moods into the drawing-room or to the table, and, whether they are bored or not, should be ready to contribute as much as in their power to an atmosphere of pleasure. If the above involves too much self-sacrifice, then an invitation to visit should by no means be accepted.”
“Visitors to Lyme in the nineteenth century, if they did not quite have to undergo the ordeal facing travellers to the ancient Greek colonies -Charles did not actually have to deliver a Periclean oration plus comprehensive world news summary from the steps of the Town Hall- were certainly expected to allow themselves to be examined and spoken to.”
“Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvelous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can't decipher the cyrillic alphabet.”
“Visits always give pleasure--if not the arrival, the departure.”
“Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.”
Source: The Works of William Cowper: Letters, 1788-1799. Papers in the Connoisseur. Letter from an owl to a bird of paradise. Fragment of an intended commentary on Paradise lost. Account of the treatment of his hares
“Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses!”
“Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.”
“Visos knygos vertingos, jokių detektyvų ar kitokio lengvesnio skaitalo, o vien tik rusų, prancūzų, amerikiečių, anglų, vokiečių literatūros klasikai, beveik visi tarybinės lietuvių prozos ir poezijos leidiniai.”
Source: Žuvys nepažįsta savo vaikų
“Vissa böcker ska inte läsas: drömmen om dem, vad de är, bara växer.”
Source: Blå, blå himmel
“Visst fanns det form och stil i litteraturen, i konsten, i musiken! Det fanns överallt, tyckte han. Allt var i djupare mening en fråga om stil.
Men det fanns något annat också. Stilen i uppträdande och handlande, en oklanderlig form i levnadssätt, ett modus vivendi i den egna privata livsföringen, en hållning mitt i all hållningslösheten, en attityd av tillkämpad stil mitt i allt det stillösa och förkonstlade.
Man måste ha stil, hade Fabian en gång sagt till honom, djupt allvarlig, medan hans blå, nästan glasartade blick mörknade av ett varmt patos. Stil i liv och dikt - det är det som det kommer an på. Man måste skriva med stil, leva med stil, kanske också dö med stil.”
Source: Bröderna i Klara
“Visto así, todo carece de sentido.”
Source: De pronto oigo la voz del agua
“Visto che non gli era permesso di cercare Angiolina, il meglio che gli restava da fare era d'attaccarsi a chi nel suo pensiero era perennemente legato a lei.”
Source: As a Man Grows Older
“Visto despuès, podría parecer un modo extraño de empezar una guerra. Solo uno de los implicados sabía de lo que de verdad sucedía, y por casualidad”
Source: Debt of Honor
“Visto en perspectiva, como el tiempo del recuerdo vivido es tan corto, si juzgamos sabiamente, , como decía Borges.”
Source: El olvido que seremos
“Visto en perspectiva, como el tiempo del recuerdo vivido es tan corto, si juzgamos sabiamente, ya somos el olvido que seremos, como decía Borges.”
Source: El olvido que seremos
“Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.”
Source: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997
“Visual art is a compelling illustration of the power of story because art serves no practical purpose. Its value doesn’t grow because more people need paintings, like we need shovels after a blizzard—it grows because people connect with the artist through the art. The combination of the work and the story make them feel, and when that happens, people take action to satisfy their emotional need—in this case, desire—by buying and sharing the art. And it’s occurred this way since the beginning of time, except now the art—the intangibles—have more power than ever before.”
“Visual art, painting, scultpure, photography and literature provide a space for us to test our limits. They are mediums for meditation and reflection. Art moves us because it provokes feelings and calls for a response. Whether that response is repulsion, fear, joy, appreciation, or boredom — art calls for a witness.”
Source: Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
“Visual artists choreograph dances for the eyes, guiding visual journeys in specific ways. But when presented with little or nothing, the journeys of the eyes become erratic and finally still their restless searching. The eye and mind and heart grow quiet, come to rest, and begin to understand their own functioning more deeply.”
“Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.”
Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.”
“Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately and automatically subordinated to the concept. Interest in space is diminished and interest in time falls almost to zero.”
Source: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
“Visual journaling allows us to access our inner language of imagery and express it both verbally and visually, while exploring the connection between image and word.”
“Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."”
“Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it kills the soul.”
“Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed.”
“Visual renditions of war not only establish what can be seen, and the audio-track established what can be heard, but the photographs also "train" us in ways of focusing on targets, ways of regarding suffering and loss.”
“Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.”
“Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.”
Source: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
“Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.”
Source: What the Twilight Says: Essays
“Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.”
“Visual violence is the impact caused by the constant, unrelenting and dehumanizing way Black and Brown skinned people are depicted visually. If it’s not poverty, it’s plight. If it’s not plight, it’s pain. If it’s not pain, it’s poverty.”
“Visualising our goals can materialise them into reality.”
Source: Paradigm Shift: Change Your Mindset and Live the Life of Your Dreams
“Visualising somersaulting provides a nice way to think of resilience. It is our ability to sustain forward momentum even when life puts us in a spin. By learning how to engage the power of the tumbling motion, we can steer ourselves even if our turns are not always in perfect control.”
Source: A Fraction Stronger: Finding Belief and Possibility in Life’s Impossible Moments
“Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.”
“Visualiza el futuro que deseas como realidad y fabrícalo con tu trabajo y sudor,”
“Visualization is a wonderful process of manifestation.”
“Visualization is a wonderful way to attract what you desire and become what you admire.”
“Visualization is an extraordinary treat for the mind. It is our will to see within our mind’s eye, all that we can achieve.”
Source: Lead Us To A Place: Your Spiritual Journey Through Life's Seasons
“Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.”
“Visualization is often used for evil - twisting insignificant data changes and making them look meaningful. Don't do that crap if you want to be my friend. Present results clearly and honestly. If something isn't working - those reviewing results need to know.”
“Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control.”