“All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.” MeanStruggleViolenceAchieveInstrumentsDemocratic Author:Osman Baydemir
“It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of rightness - it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.” MindDifferentStatesSpiritualSportsAchieveMusicianPerformancesInstrumentsPlanesInternalsMotivational SportsGreat MusicGreat MusicianGreat Performance Author:Arnold Palmer
“A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be.... The voice is an instrument which the artist must learn to use with suppleness and sureness, as if it were a limb.” IfsMayArtUseArtistVoiceActingAchieveDevelopmentIntelligentInstrumentsLimbsDefective Author:Sarah Bernhardt
“In most cases, to be reasonable means not to be obstinate, which in turn points to conformity with reality as it is. The principle of adjustment is taken for granted. When the idea of reason was conceived, it was intended to achieve more than the mere regulation of the relation between means and ends: it was regarded as the instrument for understanding the ends, for determining them.” MeanIdeasEndsReasonRealityTurnsUnderstandingPrinciplesCasesTakenAchieveRelationInstrumentsMereGrantedReasonableConformityRegulationAdjustmentTaken For GrantedObstinate Book:Eclipse of Reason Source: Eclipse of Reason
“God gave every man individuality of constitution, and a chance for achieving individuality of character. He puts special instruments into every man's hands by which to make himself and achieve his mission.” MenCharacterHandsChanceAchieveSpecialConstitutionInstrumentsIndividualityMissionsEvery Man Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS
“Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has come out with the clear statement that we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable.” MeanHas BeensMadeHumanityGoalRolesTechnologyClearProgressAchieveMercyInstrumentsProfessionStatementsAbandonedTechnologicalMultiplyingTechnological Progress Author:Stanislaw Lem
“The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic writing, which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, is a true photography of thought. Since a blind instrument now assured artists of achieving the aim they had set themselves up to that time, they now aspired, not without recklessness, to break with the imitation of appearances.” WritingWellsEndsArtistBreakAchieveCenturyPaintingExpressionPhotographyAimInstrumentsBlindBlowAppearanceInventionMortalsImitationAssuredNineteenth CenturyRecklessness Author:Andre Breton
“The fight against terrorism is something very real and practical for us. This is a fight to preserve our territorial integrity, and in this sense we need to have the instruments and create an environment in Russia that would make it impossible for the international terrorist organisations to achieve the aims they have set for themselves here.” NeedsRealFightingEnvironmentImpossibleAchieveIntegrityAimInstrumentsInternationalTerrorismTerroristRussiaPracticalsPreservesOrganisationTerritorial Author:Vladimir Putin