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“Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.”

World Should Artist Minutes Elements Importance Charm

Author:Pablo Picasso

“This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language is an irreconcilably anti-critical and anti-dialectical language. In it, operational and behavioral rationality absorbs the transcendent, negative, oppositional elements of Reason.”

Reason Language Elements Negative Organization Importance Critical Vehicle Discourse Rationality Transcendent Unified Coordination Subordination

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“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.”

“War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with. ... But it is not only a biological law but a moral obligation and, as such, an indispensable factor in civilization.”

Firsts War Law Moral Mankind Civilization Elements Importance Obligation Factors Moral Obligation Dispensable

Author:Friedrich von Bernhardi

“The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth.”

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.”

Doe Happens Order Painting Elements Messages Importance Accidents

Author:Mike Svob

“It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The idea of luck is a powerful way of illustrating the importance of our basic attitudes in affecting whether or not we find our Element.”

Way Ideas Happens Motivational Differences Powerful Attitude Our Lives Circumstances Elements Importance Luck Illustrating

Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the current systems of law and of political economy. While admitting its great importance, we cannot conceal the fact that the writers on those subjects have wholly failed to distinguish between its use and its abuse, or to recognize its rational and equitable limits.”

“There is only one constant element in immunity, whether innate or acquired, and that is phagocytosis. The extension and importance of this factor can no longer be denied.”

Elements Importance Constant Factors Denied Extensions Innate Immunity

Book:Immunity in infective diseases

Source: Immunity in infective diseases

“I have never doubted the importance of melody. I like melody very much, and I consider it the most important element in music, and I labour many years on the improvement of its quality in my compositions.”

Years Important Quality Elements Importance Improvement Labour Melody Composition Doubted

Author:Sergei Prokofiev

“Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most important element of any poem is the part that is left unsaid. So the poetry frames the experience that lies beyond naming.”

Kind Important Lying Certain Left Teach Elements Importance Irony Prose Unsaid

Author:Sam Hamill

“The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.”

Belief Essentials Elements Importance Transformation Overwhelming Sincerity Consuming Magnetism Electricity And Magnetism

Book:The Man and the Book Nobody Knows

Source: The Man and the Book Nobody Knows

“I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.”

Needs Believe Art Important Able I Believe Listening Becoming Elements Musician Ears Importance Musical Developing Components Decipher

Author:Steve Vai

“Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.”

Wells Might Suffering Universe Information Elements Tasks Importance Conclusion Assets Riddle

Author:Sigmund Freud

“People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]”

People Humans Littles Important Elements Importance Shock

Author:W. Somerset Maugham