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“As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.”

Use School Form Opportunity Students Activity Elements Musical Strings Exposed

Author:Chuck Mangione

“Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.”

Activity Elements Capacity Objectives Contemporary Tendencies Conclusion Consideration Unpredictable Innate Exhibits Success Or Failure

Author:George Orwell

“The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.”

World Self Activity Goodness Elements Eating Drinking Drawing Desirable Transfers Assimilation Eating And Drinking

Author:Alain de Botton

“One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.”

Asks Interesting Activity Elements Composition

Author:Robert Genn

“If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of thought and action; we find new elements of our nature called into activity; we are no longer running along a narrow track of selfish habit.”

Ifs Men Helping Running Action Desire Taken Habit Please Activity Elements Track Selfish Selfishness Help Me Thoughts And Actions

Book:Self-culture, lectures

Source: Self-culture, lectures

“1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are related to each other. This spacing is the simultaneously active and passive (the a of différance indicates this indecision as concerns activity and passivity, that which cannot be governed by or distributed between the terms of this opposition) production of the intervals without which the "full" terms would not signify, would not function.”

Mean Play Term Differences Activity Elements Concern Function Productions Active Related Opposition Passive Systematic Intervals Indecision Passivity Spacing

Author:Jacques Derrida

“By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you; then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.”

Reality Eye Effort Mystery Fronts Activity Elements Oneself Setting Settings Staring Constraints Texture Staring At You

Book:The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.”

Thinking Way Writing Trying Seems Certain Stuff Realizing Results Changed Listening Activity Elements Ears Settling Composition Seeming Filters Being Free

Author:Peter Gabriel

“The activities and effects of the Fire and Air elements in the astral sphere call forth the astral-electric fluid, and the activities and effects of the Water and Earth elements call forth the astral-magnetic fluid. The spirit-beings use these fluids to create the effects or rather the causes in our physical world. The Akasha Principle of the astral sphere maintains the harmonious equilibrium of the elements in the entire astral sphere.”

World Use Earth Spirit Causes Water Principles Fire Magic Air Effects Activity Elements Mysticism Spheres Electric Fluid Harmonious Equilibrium Magnetic

Author:Franz Bardon

“When winter fails to provide an adequate snow base, my boys bring their sleds in the house and ride them down the stairs. Just the other day, my wife found them with a rope out their second-story bedroom window, preparing to rappel down the side of the house. The recipe for fun is pretty simple raising boys: Add to any activity an element of danger, stir in a little exploration, add a dash of destruction, and you've got yourself a winner.”

Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly, engaged the whole of human personality. His insistence on the sanctity of nature was part of an attempt to develop Goethe's intuition that form cannot be put together in the mind by an additive process, but is to be deduced from the laws of growth in living organisms, and their resistance to the elements.”

Source: Selected Writings

“The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.”

Love Life Inspirational Giving Race Consciousness Greater Exercise Activity Essentials Elements And Love Affection Appropriate Blessedness Power And Love

Book:Receiving and Giving: A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered at Williamstown , Ms. August 15, 1852. Published by Request of the Class

Source: Receiving and Giving: A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered at Williamstown , Ms. August 15, 1852. Published by Request of the Class

“No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.”

Humans War Play Chance Activity Elements Luck Bounds Human Activity Guesswork

Book:On War

Source: On War

“Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls.”