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“When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of putting paint to paper. It hardly embraces the expressive side of painting.”

Mean Ends Sides Effects Painting Paper Conscious Embrace Mere Paint Strive Technique Expressive Means To An End Mannerisms

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Generally there is in man a divinity which strives to push him onward and upward. We believe that this power within him is the spirit that comes from God. Man lived before he came to this earth, and he is here now to strive to perfect the spirit within. At sometime in his life, every man is conscious of a desire to come in touch with the Infinite. His spirit reaches out for God. This sense of feeling is universal, and all men ought to be, in deepest truth, engaged in the same great work—the search for and the development of spiritual peace and freedom.”

“The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.”

Mind Taken Conscious Strive Absence Divides Completeness Indivisible Conscious Mind

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Dostoevsky's underground man ... observes his contemporaries striving to establish false goals where there are no naturally generated ones. ... He argues they should be conscious and honest enough to recognize that the goal itself is not an absolute, and probably not even important. A strong attachment to the telos indicates that the spontaneous enjoyment the child once took in road-building has waned.”

Men Should Children Important Enough Strong Goal Honest Building Conscious Absolutes Strive Arguing Enjoyment Attachment Spontaneous

Author:John Carroll

“Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are - hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.”

Consciousness Position Conscious Strive Bones Flesh Paradoxical Hunk

Author:Thomas Ligotti

“What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.”

Men Spirit Mankind Conscious Strive Realising Brutes

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I am fully conscious that a complete presentation of the regions visited is a task beyond my power. All I can strive to do is convey an illusion-my own illusion”

I Can My Own Illusion Conscious Tasks Strive Regions Presentation

Book:The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges

Source: The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges

“I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of grandeur and importance, and I wanted to be mediocre.”

Years Made Ideas Wanted Decision Conscious Importance Strive Mediocrity Abandoned Mediocre Grandeur

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being true kitsch, which always strives to please.”

May Has Beens Self Please Taste Conscious Strive Being True Strife Self Conscious Grotesque Kitsch Bad Taste

Author:Denis Dutton

“Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to me alone- over and above a sum of movements I am conscious of making, of emotions I alone experience- I strive, in relation to other men, to discover the nature, if not the necessity, of my difference from them. Is it not precisely to the degree I become conscious of this difference that I shall recognize what I alone have been put on this earth to do, what unique message I alone may bear, so that I alone can answer for its fate?”

“Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.”

Heart Eye Together Turns Christ Mets Standards Conscious Hundred Unity Strive Piano Bows Fellowship Accord Forks Looking Away

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.”

Should Hard Leadership Principles Practice Cases Achieve Conscious Strive Perseverance Activism Deliberate Incapacity

Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts