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“Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or spiritual power. Don't worry about the words too much.”

Spiritual Certain Energy Principles Worry Too Much Buddhism Elements Indian Manifestation Cosmology Spiritual Power Prana Shakti

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.”

Would Be America Certain Culture Elements Music Is Shame Drains Suggesting

Author:Johnny Otis

“And, to prevent mistakes, I must advertize you, that I now mean by elements, as those chymists that speak plainest do by their principles, certain primitive or simple, or perfectly unmingled bodies; which not being made of any other bodies, or of one another, are the ingredients of which all those called perfectly mixt bodies are immediately compounded, and into which they are ultimately resolved: now whether there be any such body to be constantly met with in all, and each, of those that are said to be elemented bodies, is the thing I now question.”

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Book:The Sceptical Chymist

Source: The Sceptical Chymist

“A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.”

Art Certain Elements Surprise Works Of Art Originality Indispensable Strangeness Blossoming

Book:The Renaissance

Source: The Renaissance

“Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the subject are beyond the limits of your pigments, try to form an idea beforehand of how you are going to handle those areas when you get to them.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Form Certain Impossible Magic Subjects Limits Elements Areas Paint Handle Pigment

Author:Richard Schmid

“As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal".”

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Book:The Divine Milieu

Source: The Divine Milieu

“I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom and just unloading on a class, but I knew to take the scenic route to go to the grocery store to avoid certain elements.”

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Author:Questlove

“Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function.”

Way Certain Process Design Materials Balance Elements Organization Function Productive Harmonious

Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“The magic possibility of framing a certain space and time is what brought me to photography. This process of recording elements of 3 dimensions in the flow of time, and fixing them in a 2 dimensional image, creates a new context for the elements of the photograph.”

Certain Process Space Magic Possibility Elements Photography Flow Photograph Dimensions Time And Space Fixing Framing

Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“On the geometric level, we see certain physical elements repeated endlessly, combined in an almost endless variety of combinations. It is puzzling to realize that the elements, which seem like elementary building blocks, keep varying, and are different every time that they occur. If the elements are different every time that they occur, evidently then, it cannot be the elements themselves which are repeating in a building or town; these so-called elements cannot be the ultimate "atomic" constituents of space.”

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Author:Christopher Alexander

“There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. It may be that the genesis of these experiences is to be sought in the unique situation of the very young child in relation to adults. The theory of the filial origin of the religious sense seems to us singularly convincing in this connection.”

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on misinterpretations of certain aspects of the masters. Lamentable mistakes have resulted from the thoughtless enthusiasm with which men have sought inspiration from the worst qualities of remarkable artists because they are unable to reproduce the sublime elements in their work.”

“I would like to please the reader, and I think that surprise has to be an element of this, and that may necessitate a certain amount of teasing. To shock the reader is something else again. That has to be handled with great care if you're not going to alienate and hurt him, and I'm firmly against that, just as I disapprove of people who dress with that in mind - dye their hair blue and stick safety pins through their noses and so on.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind May Care Certain Hurt Hair Reader Amount Please Elements Dresses Safety Blue Sticks Surprise Noses Shock Pins Tease Safety Pins

Author:John Ashbery

“All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with the family drama a long time ago. Now I want to get away from that. Not that I won't return to it, but a certain element has been exhausted, and it feels like why regurgitate all this stuff?”

Want Feels Kind Long Has Beens Certain Father Stuff Interesting Childhood Return Drama Elements Long Time Get Away Exhausted Long Time Ago Family Drama

Author:Sam Shepard

“In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world civilization: the primacy of production, the continual growth of the power of the State and the formation of the National State, the autonomous development of technics, etc. These, among others - far more than the ownership of the means of production or any totalitarian doctrine - are the constitutive elements of the modern world. So long as these elements continue to be taken for granted, the world is standing still.”

“I think that that's the way the music grows and changes and becomes new and creative and vital. It's by synthesizing elements from all around it and not to maintain this kind of rigid myopic kind of tunnel vision, in a sense, trying to maintain a certain kind of purity, or whatever.”

Thinking Way Trying Kind Certain Grows Vision Creative Elements Purity Tunnels Tunnel Vision Myopic

Author:David Sanborn

“Which was first, Matter or Force? If we think on this question, we shall find that we are unable to conceive of matter without force, or force without matter. When God created the elements of which the earth is composed, He created certain wondrous forces, which are set free and become evident when matter acts on matter.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Matter Earth Certain Force Elements Evident Wondrous

Book:A course of six lectures on the various forces of Matter, and their relations to each other ... Edited by W. Crookes. With numerous illustrations

Source: A course of six lectures on the various forces of Matter, and their relations to each other ... Edited by W. Crookes. With numerous illustrations

“I mean, there is a certain element that, when you read the bad press about yourself and post it on the web-site, takes the pressure off.”

Mean Certain Elements Pressure Presses Posts About Yourself Site Bad Press

Author:Brian Viglione

“It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy.”

Certain Elements Army Reactions Navy

Author:Yoshijiro Umezu

“A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamour or sexiness, but I like it when you can have some other element that makes it much more interesting.”

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Author:Erin Cummings

“I'm normally late, so I just kind of throw on the sort of thing that's at hand. And then I'll go through phases of wearing the same thing again and again and again. My wardrobe is mainly about black and white, so it goes together. I'll play with certain elements, but it's - I don't really think too much about it.”

Thinking Kind Play Hands Together Certain Black White Too Much Elements Late Black And White Phases Again And Again Wardrobe

Author:Daphne Guinness