“Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that takes place in areas related to politics and policy-making by elected officials. That special risk justifies especially strong pro-speech judicial presumptions. It also justifies careful review whenever the speech in question seeks to shape public opinion, particularly if that opinion in turn will affect the political process and the kind of society in which we live.” IfsKindLawPoliticalTurnsStrongProcessLibertyOpinionRiskSpecialPolicyExampleShapesSpeechAreasCarefulActiveRelatedOfficialsJustifyReviewsFreedom Of SpeechPublic OpinionJudicialPresumptionElected OfficialsLive FreePublic OfficialsPolicy Making Author:Stephen Breyer
“I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has not the pulsating concreteness of real flesh and bones, its vulnerability to pleasure or pain is nothing at all. Any picture that does not provide the environment in which the breath of life can be drawn does not interest me.” DoeRealPainInterestPleasureViewsEnvironmentShapesAreasBreathsBonesPoint Of ViewFleshVulnerabilityAbstractionReservations Author:Mark Rothko
“I have settled down in this border area; I am trying to find distinct standards of shape, and I long to experience, formulate, and evoke this dark, heavy, tranquillity.” TryingLongPeaceDarkShapesStandardsAreasHeavyBordersEvokeTranquillity Book:Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition Source: Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition
“I've learned something on the road, traveling around: state shapes. The easier it is to draw the shape of the state, the harder it is to live in that state. So, if you live in a regular polygon, get the hell outta there. You gotta move to a squiggly area. Culture's attracted to squiggles.” IfsStatesMovingCultureHellEasierShapesDrawsAreasHarderI've Learned Author:Demetri Martin
“I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of focus and if it's possible I try to make an amalgamation of every shape and color in the picture so that it acquires a circular movement: from representation to abstraction, from life to death, and vice-versa.” IfsTryingKnowingFocusSeeingMovementColorShapesAreasVicesAcquireRepresentationAbstractionSelectVice VersaKnowing EverythingAmalgamation Author:Olivo Barbieri
“Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat.” IfsWayHas BeensRunningEnvironmentShapesAreasConclusionSooner Or LaterRatsOur Environment Author:Alan Moore
“I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.” BelieveMeanFacesSpiritDesireI BelieveVisionPrinciplesPracticeLearningShapesAchievementIntellectualAreasPerfectionExperiencePerformancesDancingDanceAthleteSatisfactionObstaclesLive ByDedicatedPreciseInvitingDance Performance Author:Martha Graham
“The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape: the ear hears words that talk about all this. When hearing takes place, character areas change; but when you see, inner areas change. If all you know about fire is what you have heard see if the fire will agree to cook you! Certain energies come only when you burn. If you long for belief, sit down in the fire! When the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye. But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens.” IfsKnowsLongMadeCharacterHelpingBodyHappensEyeCertainTurnsBeliefEnergyPleasureFireHeardShapesAreasEarsAgreeDelightHearingCooksChests Book:The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting down into a deep fryer. No, the cereal engineers at General Mills had to find a shape that would minimize surface area, and, as some sort of compromise between the sphere that is dictated by Euclidean geometry and whatever sunken treasure related shapes that the cereal aestheticians were probably clamoring for, they came up with this hard-to-pin-down striated pillow formation.” LongHardWould BeLastsFormShapesAreasMadnessSurfaceTreasureCompromiseRelatedSpheresMilkEngineersSuicidalPinsPillowCapsGeometryFormationMillsCerealSnowflakeFlakesCrunchSifting Author:Neal Stephenson