“PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed "Perfection," promptly wrote at the foot of the letter: "I don't agree with you," and mailed it to Matthew Arnold.” StatesViewsQualityKnownFeetStyleElementsPerfectionLettersAgreeExcellenceCriticsMagazinesEditorsAttributesImaginaryPointingDistinguishedMatthew Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“The photograph, now they are detached from their original surroundings, they are involved in a close world in which they only relate to each other: all the rest of 'reality' has vanished. This allows us to see those elements from a new point of view and perhaps to reach a better understanding.” WorldRealityUnderstandingViewsInvolvedElementsOriginalsPhotographPoint Of ViewRelateSurroundingsDetached Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
“We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.” ViewsElementsPoint Of ViewUndesirable Author:Edward Abbey
“A home life where it's so full of so many rigorous ideas about the way things should be, this word "should," I think is absolutely toxic to children. It hurts their personalities, it hurts their points of view in the world, it hurts their ability to be open and caring and curious. An element of allowance in a family, is, I think, really a positive thing.” ThinkingWorldWayShouldChildrenIdeasHomeHurtAbilityViewsPersonalityElementsCaringPoint Of ViewCuriousToxicShould IIt HurtsAllowancePositive ThingsHome Life Author:Mark Ruffalo
“I was trying to show colour, but I realized at the private view that the public were prisoners of a preconceived point of view and that, confronted with all these surfaces of different colours, they responded far more to the inter-relationship of the different propositions, they reconstituted the elements of a decorative polychromy.” TryingDifferentShowsViewsElementsSurfacePoint Of ViewI RealizedColourPrisonerPropositionsDifferent Colours Author:Yves Klein
“We cannot sanction the view that the Constitution, while solicitous of the cognitive content of individual speech, has little or no regard for that emotive function which, practically speaking, may often be the more important element of the overall message sought to be communicated.” MayLittlesImportantIndividualJusticeViewsSpeechElementsMessagesFunctionConstitutionRegardSanctionsCognitiveOften Is Author:John Marshall Harlan II
“I think every individual, and every society, is perfected just in proportion to the combination, and cooperation, of masculine and feminine elements of character. He is the most perfect man who is affectionate as well as intellectual; and she is the most perfect woman who is intellectual as well as affectionate. Every art and science becomes more interesting, viewed both from the masculine and feminine points of view.” ThinkingMenWellsArtCharacterIndividualPerfectInterestingViewsElementsIntellectualPoint Of ViewCombinationProportionFeminineCooperationMasculineArt And ScienceAffectionatePerfect ManMasculine And FemininePerfect Woman Author:Lydia M. Child
“Sensitivity to nature is not an innate attribute of indigenous peoples. It is a consequence of adaptive choices that have resulted in the development of highly specialized peripheral skills. but those choices in turn spring from a comprehensive view of nature and the universe in which man and woman are perceived as but elements inextricably linked to the whole.” MenWholeTurnsChoicesUniverseViewsDevelopmentSkillsElementsSpringMen And WomenConsequenceAttributesSensitivityLinkedInnateIndigenousComprehensiveIndigenous PeopleAdaptive Author:Wade Davis
“Wahhabism goes and takes elements from the Islamic tradition that are most oppressive of women, and highlights and enlarges them and makes them the whole of Islam. In my view, that's a clear corruption of the Islamic tradition.” WholeViewsClearElementsTraditionIslamCorruptionIslamicHighlights Author:Khaled Abou El Fadl
“Naturally and logically, people who forage rather than herd domestic beasts and tend crops for a living - that is, people who depend utterly on wild as opposed to agriculture nature for their welfare - inevitably come to view themselves as merely an element of it all, one member of an egalitarian community, alternately eating and being eaten.” PeopleCommunityViewsDependsMembersElementsEatingWelfareBeastAgricultureCropsHerds Author:David Petersen
“It's to a writer's advantage to contain within himself elements of each sex, or any sex. It's to his advantage because it makes him able to write from the female point of view as well as the male. In some cases, of course, you will find some homosexual writers who can only write from a f - - -'s point of view. But I don't regard myself as a f - - -! Some people may. Also audiences wanted escapism. They don't like too much protest or criticism of their way of life.” PeopleWayWritingWellsMayAbleWantedCoursesSexViewsCasesAudienceToo MuchElementsAdvantageFemaleCriticismRegardMalesPoint Of ViewProtestHomosexualEscapism Author:Tennessee Williams
“I've found that from my point of view, the Chen style contained many things that I knew on a fairly superficial level from Eagle Claw, and that had Chen elements of what seemed to me the soft in Eagle Claw.” FoundLevelsViewsStyleElementsPoint Of ViewSuperficialEaglesClaws Author:Lou Reed
“I love to surround myself with people who are the best at what they do. My idea is I want to be a sponge and absorb everything they to teach, experience their energy, view them in their element and have the opportunity to ask them questions.” PeopleWantIdeasAsksOpportunityEnergyViewsTeachElementsSurroundSponges Author:Kreesha Turner
“There's a stronger and more kind of controversial element of Plotinus' view of matter, which is that he actually identifies it with evil, or at least the principle of evil, and the reason for this is that he thinks that the the One, the highest principle, can also be thought of as the Good, and that's kind of surprising like, because he has this negative theology which doesn't allow us to say anything about the One. But he believes that it can be seen as the principle of goodness as well as unity, and that if you think about it, goodness and unity sort of go along with each other.” IfsThinkingBelieveWellsKindMatterReasonEvilViewsPrinciplesGoodnessElementsHighestNegativeStrongerUnityTheologySurprisingSay AnythingControversial Author:Peter Adamson
“There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate when combined with a rather abstract view of a language as a set of elements and rules for combining these. For the result is to divorce enquiry into meaning from attention to the way words - and gestures, facial expressions, rituals and so on - are embedded in practices, in what Wittgenstein called 'the stream of life'.” WayLanguageResultsViewsAttentionPracticeExpressionElementsDivorceSentencesAbstractStreamsRitualGesturesUnfortunateEmbeddedCombiningFacialEnquiryFacial ExpressionMyopicMyopiaMeanings Of Words Author:David E. Cooper
“I am a child of the Enlightenment. I think irrational belief is a dangerous phenomenon, and I try to consciously avoid irrational belief. On the other hand, I certainly recognize that it's a major phenomenon for people in general, and you can understand why it would be. It does, apparently, provide personal sustenance, but also bonds of association and solidarity and a means for expressing elements of one's personality that are often very valuable elements. To many people it does that. In my view, there's nothing wrong with that.” PeopleThinkingTryingMeanChildrenDoeHandsWould BeBeliefViewsDangerousPersonalityElementsMajorsEnlightenmentValuablePhenomenonAssociationIrrationalSolidaritySustenanceIrrational Beliefs Author:Noam Chomsky
“There's the instability of my attitude as an artist, the instability of our perception of the world, and the idea that with this mix, you never know exactly what's the point of view of the filmmaker. This breaks the stability of the belief that a filmmaker is somebody who has a logical relationship with his own material. These elements create this atmosphere that I find more interesting than a normal atmosphere, based only on the characters.” KnowsWorldIdeasCharacterArtistBeliefInterestingViewsAttitudeBreakMaterialsElementsNormalPerceptionPoint Of ViewAtmosphereFilmmakerLogicalStabilityMy AttitudeInstabilityPerception Of The World Author:Albert Serra
“I don't believe that anyone connected with bullfighting would deny that what happens in the ring has an element of suffering and perhaps cruelty to it. So then it comes back to whether the suffering and cruelty is justified by its place in a tradition that has deep roots in the culture. At present, the view in Catalonia apparently is that it does not.” BelieveDoeHappensSufferingCultureViewsElementsTraditionRootsDon't BelieveDenyConnectedRingsCrueltyJustifiedCataloniaDeep RootsBullfighting Author:Bette Ford