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“The Analytical Engine might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine… Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”

“There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.”

Source: What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

“I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all kinds of unorthodox expression, all kinds of daring in the handling of materials, and I preferred to surround myself with this type of art than with the great collectors' pieces. I had always in my mind that I was collecting for learning.”

Mind Kind Art Found Pieces Greatness Expression Materials Type All Kinds Surround Daring Minors Great Art Imaginative Collecting Collectors Pompous Unorthodox

Author:Jacques Lipchitz

“Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search - for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning. Anything else is a competitive quarrel over (or Hollywood-love sharing of) studio props.”

Persons Action Turns Found Religious Wise Expression Conscious Hollywood Studios Rhythm Tunes Ecstasy Quarrels Turn-on Props Wise Person

Author:Timothy Leary

“The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to found society on a full use of the earth's resources; they did not aim to use the whole nature of man; they did not intend him to think out the full expression of his desires. Democracy is a turning point upon those ideals in a pursuit, at first unconsciously, of the richest life that men can devise for themselves.”

Thinking Men World Firsts Whole Use Earth Desire Found Virtue Democracy Modern Expression Authority Resources Ideals Aim Pursuit Modern World Turning Points Nature Of Man

Author:Walter Lippmann

“The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.”

Art Found Family Expression Tables Dinner Dinner Table

Book:Underworld: Picador Classic

Source: Underworld: Picador Classic

“Long ago, during my apprenticeship in the wine trade, I learned that wine is more than the sum of its parts, and more than an expression of its physical origin. The real significance of wine as the nexus of just about everything became clearer to me when I started writing about it. The more I read, the more I traveled, and the more questions I asked, the further I was pulled into the realms of history and economics, politics, literature, food, community, and all else that affects the way we live. Wine, I found, draws on everything and leads everywhere.”

Way Writing Long Real Found Literature Community Expression Draws Economics Trade Wine Realms Significance Long Ago Traveled Apprenticeship Nexus

Book:A Carafe of Red

Source: A Carafe of Red

“Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to be given to religion, some form other than the Gothic cathedral must be found. Industry concerns the greatest numbers-it may be true, as has been said, that our factories are our substitute for religious expression.”

May Has Beens Said Seems Age Form Found Individual Given Religious Numbers Expression Industry Periods Evidence Concern Being True Substitutes Factories Gothic Cathedrals

Book:Charles Sheeler: across media

Source: Charles Sheeler: across media

“Faith, then, is not a set of beliefs about the world. It is rather found in the loving embrace of the world. Because the actual existing church has reduced the Crucifixion and Resurrection to religious affirmations held by a certain tribe, rather than expressions of a type of life, the event they testify to has been almost completely eclipsed.”

World Has Beens Certain Found Belief Church Religious Events Expression Type Embrace Resurrection Tribes Affirmation Crucifixion

Book:The Divine Magician: The Disappearance of Religion and the Discovery of Faith

Source: The Divine Magician: The Disappearance of Religion and the Discovery of Faith

“A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.”

Ifs Writing Mind Has Beens Seems Able Lasts Found Natural Simple Effort Expression Ought Good Authors

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“jewels have played a colorful part in the evolution of world affairs. Because precious stones tend to inspire both admiration and greed, leaders have found convenient excuses for seeking them and have used them to impress crowds, reward friends, deprive foes, forge alliances, and justify war. Jewels may find their highest expression in the decorative arts, but they have also earned a place in the art of the possible.”

“It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.”

Men Soul Pain Found Individual My Own Grief Doors Childhood Poet Expression Old Man Farmers Potatoes Parting Beggar Disclosure Expressions Of Love Workhouses

Book:The Kiltartan Poetry Book

Source: The Kiltartan Poetry Book

“Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.”

Age Values Found Numbers Expression Western Various Alternatives Fascism Marxism Legion American Values Enamored

Author:Dennis Prager

“It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony. This opinion has found expression in the distinction between culture and civilization, according to which "culture" refers to some higher dimension of human autonomy and fulfillment, while "civilization" designates the realm of necessity, of socially necessary work and behavior, where man is not really himself and in his own element but is subject to heteronomy, to external conditions and needs.”

“Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings.”

Two Ideas Together Found Wish Style Produce Expression Cost Spring Faults Confusion Reasoning Obscurity Propriety Dazzle Diction Sophistry

Book:Machiavelli : the Founder of the Political

Source: Machiavelli : the Founder of the Political

“[There is a] depth and urgency of the search of Jewish and Christian women for connection to the Divine, which found expression in more than 1000 years of feminist Bible criticism and religious re-visioning.”

Years Christian Religion Found Women Religious Divine Expression Criticism Connections Depth Feminist Urgency Christian Women

Book:The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy

Source: The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy

“A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.”

Want Mind Reality Age Desire Suffering Found Careers Youth Expression Thirds Felicity Correspondence

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“I have found when I look at an audience that the expressions on the peoples' faces aren't always up to par with the sounds that they're making. A crowd can sound like they're having a good time when your eyes are closed but if you open your eyes, the looks on some of those faces don't equal the sound.”

Ifs Looks Eye Faces Found Sound Audience Expression Equal Crowds Good Times Having A Good Time

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.”

Art Different Found Expression Connected Access Filmmaking

Author:Wim Wenders

“An elegant simplicity is an understated, organic aesthetic that contrasts with the excess of consumerist lifestyles. Drawing from influences ranging from Zen to the Quakers, it celebrates natural materials and clean, functional expressions, such as are found in many of the hand-made arts and crafts from this community.”

“Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.”

Art Made Ideas Found Process Perfect Inspiring Design Expression Products Art Is Foundation Visuals Vehicle Verbs Nouns Design And Art Product Design

Author:Paul Rand

“Self-expression is something that you've crafted, something that you've found. You've practiced on that piano for hours, you didn't hang out with your buddies, you didn't go after the girls, you stayed in your own little geeky room or you wrote for hours.”

Littles Self Girl Found Hours Rooms Expression Piano Hanging Out Buddy Self Expression Found You

Author:John Leguizamo

“Why did Ted Geisel end up writing and illustrating for young minds? He has specific imagery in the book, and we never would have moved beyond the discussion phase, if we couldn't have found an expression for The Lorax, dimensionally, that was true to the soul of what comes through in his simple line drawings, on the page.”

Ifs Writing Mind Book Soul Ends Young Found Lines Simple Expression Pages Moved Drawing Discussion Phases Imagery Young Minds Illustrating

Author:Christopher Meledandri

“There's an expression in life: "You can only make one first impression." And that first impression has to be spectacular. So, I wait, and let people see it when it's ready to go. It's not a set rule, but I think it's the better way of working. People will agree with you because of your track record, but you want people to like it because it's good, not because you found it.”

People Thinking Way Want Firsts Found Waiting Records Ready Expression Agree Track Impression Spectacular Better Ways First Impression Track Record

Author:Simon Cowell

“The expression on my face - who on earth would be interested in that? All that I have to say is to be found in my works. (On being photographed)”

Would Be Earth Faces Found Expression

Author:Pierre Bonnard

“I know that the materials found on the streets is rich and wonderful, but my experience is that the way I am accustomed to work, slowly planning my composition etc. is not suited for such work. By the time I have the composition or expression right, the picture is gone. I guess I want to do the impossible and therefore I do nothing.”

Knows Way Want Found Gone Rich Wonderful Impossible Streets Expression Materials Planning Etc Composition Accustomed

Author:Tina Modotti

“We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique, possibilities that the eye cannot catch in their totality. We tried to establish a characteristic vision of photography.”

Mean Eye Used Found Vision Possibility Expression Offers Photography Cameras Technique Mediums Artistic Characteristics Visuals Totality

Author:Piet Zwart

“When I find that I am more conscious, it's because I'm in tune with a higher reality. When I'm less conscious, it's because I've cut off that entunement to some extent. Maybe through drinking, through anger, through whatever. And I realized then that God has to be an infinite consciousness, and that I had to be an expression of that consciousness. And that the goal of life then must be to become more and more in tune with that consciousness. And I decided to give my life to God. And around that time, to make a long story short, I found Autobiography of a Yogi.”

“In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a photograph. Except, I've found that if I go very close in to the face, then the posed expression no longer exists. The face becomes a landscape of the lakes of the eyes and the hills of the nose and the valley of the cleft of the chin.”

Ifs Looks Eye Faces Found Subjects Painting Expression Photograph Complaining Hills Landscape Noses Lakes Valleys Chins

Author:John Loengard

“Wilhelmine Germany was hostile to the expression of same-sex love - and, of course, Mann would have known of the fate of Oscar Wilde. His early reading of Platen's poetry, and, probably when he was in his early twenties, of Platen's diaries, introduced him to a form of sexual expression he found profoundly congenial. It's not quite Platonic.”

Form Courses Reading Found Sex Known Fate Expression Twenties Germany Oscars Hostile Diaries Platonic Wilde Sex Love

Author:Philip Kitcher

“Most of what the founders knew about the Hebraic republic, it must be emphasized, they learned from the Bible. These Americans were well aware that ideas like republicanism found expression in traditions apart from the Hebrew experience, and, indeed, they studied these traditions both ancient and modern.”

Wells Ideas Found Modern Expression Tradition Ancient Republic Founders Hebrew Republicanism

Author:Daniel L Dreisbach

“Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible.”

May Mean Art Soul Found Felt Powerful Vision Expression Masters Art Is Subtle Spells Vivid Indefinable

Book:Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913

Source: Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913

“The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage.”

Source: Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

“There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself.”

World Giving Self Moments Might Together Found Easy Loses Impossible Expression Musician Performances Glimpse Rehearsal Best Self Rare Moments

Author:Ian Mcewan

“...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of idleness, of lovelessness. Slowly the soul sickness of the rich crept over him.”

People Soul Faces Found Rich Expression Sickness Idleness Rich People Discontent Displeasure Lovelessness

Book:Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays

Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays