“The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.” TryingArtistCultureTermChristianityEffectsPoetCreatingAvant GardeCreating Something Book:Art and Culture: Critical Essays Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays
“Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association of music and math has, in fact, long been noted. Creating and performing music promotes self-expression and provides self-gratification while giving pleasure to others. In medicine, increasing published reports demonstrate that music has a healing effect on patients. For all these reasons, it deserves strong support in our educational system, along with the other arts, the sciences, and athletics.” GivingLongArtSelfReasonFactsStrongPleasureHealingSupportStudyEffectsExpressionHabitDisciplineCreatingIntellectualDeserveMedicinePatientEducationalMathPursuitPerformingReportsAssociationTraitsSelf DisciplineGratificationDiligenceAthleticsSelf ExpressionEducational SystemWork HabitsSelf GratificationMath And MusicPerforming MusicStudy And WorkStudying Music Author:Michael E. DeBakey
“When I use a direct manipulation system whether for text editing, drawing pictures, or creating and playing games I do think of myself not as using a computer but as doing the particular task. The computer is, in effect, invisible. The point cannot be overstressed: make the computer system invisible.” ThinkingUseGamesEffectsParticularComputerCreatingTasksDirectDrawingInvisibleManipulationEditingPlaying GamesComputer SystemsDrawing Pictures Author:Donald A. Norman
“In Chaos Magic , beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects. To fully realize this is to face a terrible freedom in which nothing is true and everything is permitted, which is to say that everything is possible, there are no certainties , and the consequences can be ghastly.” EndsFacesBeliefRealizingMagicEffectsTerribleCreatingConsequenceToolsChaosCertaintyGhastly Book:Liber Kaos Source: Liber Kaos
“I'm very careful about violence in games. I'm not interested in creating violent effects.” GamesViolenceEffectsCreatingCarefulViolentNot Interested Author:Satoshi Tajiri
“I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects" involve mathematical puzzles that are not nearly so well worked out as physics theories and never can be... What has happened in Japan over roughly the last ten years has shaken up academic economics, as it obviously should, creating strong worries about recession from "wealth effects" in reverse.” ShouldWellsStrongWealthCommonWorryHappenedConditionsEffectsTheoryCreatingEconomicsCurrentsExtremesPhysicsMathematicalAcademicReversePuzzlesEconomistRecessionsPhdsAppraise Author:Charlie Munger
“I think that if you're creating an environment completely or...in my research, what I've learned is that if it's a CG world or a lot of visual effects, you're almost better doing that in post.” IfsThinkingWorldEnvironmentEffectsCreatingResearchPostsI've LearnedVisualsVisual Effects Author:Neal H. Moritz
“It's important to me in the creation of it because I figured as soon as I crossed that threshold into effects and loops it would completely undermine the premise of how I go about creating things physically, with the instrument.” ImportantEffectsCreationCreatingInstrumentsPremisesThresholdLoopsCreating Things Author:Colin Stetson
“We enslave, torture and then slaughter animals to eat them, then when we eventually become sick from that we enslave, torture and kill more animals in laboratories in the hopes of creating drugs to enable us to continue with our animal-abusive lifestyle! Few of us look to the future (i.e., to our parents and grandparents), see the effects of an omnivorous lifestyle, and opt out of it before it makes us sick.” LooksParentAnimalEffectsDrugCreatingSickLifestyleTortureGrandparentLaboratorySlaughterAbusiveParents And GrandparentsLooking To The Future Author:Sharon Gannon
“Where we really effect change, in terms of creating a passionate work force, is by listening to kids early.” KidsForceTermEffectsListeningCreatingPassionate Author:Phil Keoghan
“America has exercised its power to insist on elections in Palestine, which Hamas did win. Once they won, we then engaged in a policy not only of ostracism, but by financial boycott, in effect of undermining it, and creating more tension and radicalism and poverty in Gaza, which was susceptible to exploitation by Hamas.” AmericaWinningPovertyEffectsPolicyCreatingElectionFinancialEngagedTensionExploitationPalestineSusceptibleGazaUnderminingHamasBoycottRadicalismOstracism Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.” WorldShouldBelieveArtAbleHumanityI BelieveResponsibilityCreativityInfluenceMankindEffectsCreatingHumanitarianBetter PlaceCreativenessInspirational Art Author:Jeff Koons