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“I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone.”

Thinking Space Shapes Commitment Tools Size Atmosphere Zone Volume Sculptors

Author:Michael Heizer

“Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.”

“... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose.”

Form Politics Community Space Commitment Feminist Oppression Progressive Rooted Solidarity Doomed Domination Dissent Critique

Book:Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

Source: Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

“Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it is no longer the exclusive preserve of enlightened teachers or accomplished yogis. Likewise, nirvana-the stopping of craving-is not the goal of the path but its very source. For human flourishing first stirs in that clear, bright, empty space where neurotic self-centredness realizes that it has no ground at all to stand on. One is then freed to pour forth like sunlight.”

“I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values, our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space.”

Believe Values I Believe Space Liberty Democracy Duty Commitment Tolerance Defined Openness Exclusive Civics Civic Duty Internationalism Shared Values

Author:David Blunkett

“My aspiration isn't to be some fashion photographer or anything. I think that's a space that's occupied by people that have a full-time commitment to the industry. You have to really be 100% invested to be successful in that industry.”

People Thinking Space Successful Fashion Industry Commitment Photographer Aspiration Being Successful

Author:C. J. Wilson

“Define home "not as a comforable, stable, inherited and familiar space, but instead as an imaginative, politically-charged space where the familiarity and sense of affection and commitment lay in shared collective analysis of social injustice as well as a vision for radical transformation"”

Wells Home Social Space Vision Commitment Transformation Lays Injustice Affection Familiar Radical Analysis Collectives Stable Imaginative Familiarity Social Injustice

Author:Chandra Talpade Mohanty

“Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.”

Years Long Together Space Long Time Commitment Working Together Together Again

Author:David Bowie

“Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.”

“All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.”

“For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others. There are few demands to be met, and no commitment is required. Marriage, on the other hand, closes the door. Your existence is confined to a narrow space in which you are constantly forced to reveal yourself – and therefore, constantly obliged to look into yourself, to examine your own depths.”

Men Looks Hands Natural Space Existence Doors Mets Demand Commitment Depth Surface Satisfied Staying Offering Obliged Confined Tolerable No Commitment

Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

“My primary relationship is with myself- all others are mirrors of it. As I learn to love myself, I automatically receive the love and appreciation that I desire from others. If I am commited to myself and to living my truth, I will attract others with equal commitment. My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.”

Source: The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition

“Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue.”

Made Strong Wish Space Unique Commitment International Partners Canada Stations Laboratory Assembly International Space Station

Author:Marc Garneau

“Dissent is the cousin of diversity; the respect for a wide range of beliefs. This begins by allowing people the space to say "no". If we cannot say "no" then our "yes" has no meaning. Each needs the chance to express their doubts and reservations, without having to justify them, or move quickly into problem solving. No is the beginning of the conversation for commitment.”

People Ifs Needs Problem Moving Belief Chance Space Doubt Conversation Diversity Commitment Wide Range Justify Allowing Collaboration Problem Solving Cousin Dissent Reservations

Author:Peter Block

“It is the Muslim's conception of himself as the khulifa of Allah on the earth that makes him the vortex of human history. Only as God's khulifa, and hence only in proper commitment to the vision of Islam, may man act responsibly in the totality of space-time.”

Men Humans May Earth Humanity Space Vision Commitment Islam Conception Human History Totality Space Time Vortex

Author:Ismail al-Faruqi