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“There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.”

People Thinking Way Faces Used Certain Seeing Expression Cameras Freak Posters Submissive Posing

Author:Rooney Mara

“I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.”

Ifs Way Believe Fighting I Believe Expression Flow Majority Scales This Life Swim Swimming Amazing Things Tilt

Author:Michael J. Fox

“Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.”

Way Inspirational Feels Life Is Expression Wall Buddhism Guilty Dominant Hostility Off The Wall

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If the words of God are uttered merely as verbal expressions, and their message is not rooted in the virtuous way of life of those who utter them, they will not be heard. But if they are uttered through the practice of the commandments, their sound has such power that they dissolve the demons and dispose men eagerly to build their hearts into temples of God through making progress in works of righteousness.”

Ifs Men Way Heart Christian Sound Practice Progress Heard Expression Messages Demon Temples Orthodox Righteousness Word Of God Rooted Virtuous Commandments Orthodox Christian

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.”

Way Believe I Believe Half Expression Battle Findings

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.”

Way Looks Helping Attitude Achieve Expression Relation Living Things Service Culture Rapport

Author:J. Boone

“The main reason for civilization is that life is more comfortable. In a way, houses are there to protect us from rain, cold, and heat; cars are there to overcome distances. Culture is the exception. Music, art, and all of the different cultural expressions are not going in that direction. They're not about comfort; they're about understanding each other.”

Way Art Different Reason Life Is Culture House Understanding Car Expression Cold Comfort Civilization Protect Comfortable Rain Overcoming Distance Heat Exception Understanding Each Other

Author:Pipilotti Rist

“Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.”

World Way Doe Art Objects Expression Everyday Personal Expression Everyday Objects

Book:Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

“Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.”

Way Want Doe Ideas Different Matter Progress Expression Evolution Method Following Theme

Author:Pablo Picasso

“It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do whatever you want, acting as you please. This is not expressing yourself. If you know what to do exactly, and you do it, then you can express yourself fully.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want Bigs Acting Mistake Expression Please Best Way Express Yourself Do Whatever You Want Big Mistake

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific means of expression, with a limited vocabulary, but vast in its expressive potential.”

Way Mean Simple Painting Expression Wine Primitive Vocabulary Expressive

Author:Robert Motherwell

“Find a way to express what moves you.”

Way Moving Expression

Book:Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

Source: Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

“Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as you can, then go all the way!”

Way Feels Mean Art Expression Really Mean

Author:Kay WalkingStick

“I think we need editorial oversight now more than ever. Anything we can do to help newspapers find new ways of expression that will help them get paid, I am all for.”

Thinking Way Needs Helping Can Do Expression Paid Newspapers New Ways Editorials Oversight

Author:Steve Jobs

“Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do. There is an old expression that says, 'Misery likes company,' and people who are suffering in hell don't want to be all alone.”

People Way Want Feels Humans Motivational Form Suffering Company Hell Expression Communication Misery Likes Feel Better Human Society All Alone

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“I don't like it, but I guess things happen that way.”

Way Happens Expression Things Happen

Author:Johnny Cash

“Like two sparrows in a hurricane trying to find their way.”

Way Trying Two Expression Hurricanes Sparrows

Author:Tanya Tucker

“At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.”

Way Film Form Class Issues Comedy Serious Expression University Temples

Author:Tim Heidecker

“Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains why Shaw must either be taken whole or left alone. He must be disassembled and put together again with nothing left out, under pain of incomprehension; for his politics, his art, and his religion - to say nothing of the shape of his sentences - are unique expressions of this enormously enlarged and yet concentrated consciousness.”

Way Doe Art Whole Pain Together Left Difficult Consciousness Taken Expression Shapes Unique Sentences Territory Propositions Left Alone Left Out Together Again Incomprehension

Author:Jacques Barzun

“Learn technique; have full command to the extent of not being conscious of how it is done. When craftsmanship has been developed, you are free to create... technique will give way to expression!”

Way Giving Has Beens Done Expression Conscious Technique Command Craftsmanship

Author:Sergei Bongart

“In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.”

Way Trying Use Emotion Color Expression Function Infinity Blank Canvas Blank Canvas

Author:Guido Molinari

“I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.”

Way Trying Humans Whole Shows Body Expression Healthy Decided Reactions Human Body Ripped Expressionism

Author:Philip Pearlstein

“It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.”

Way Doe Art Use Pay Expression

Author:Antonin Dvorak

“All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it is always an oligarchy that governs, finding ways to give to'the will of the people'the expression which the few desire.”

People Way Giving Reason Facts Use Government Desire Force Expression Findings Universal Suffrage Oligarchy Universal Suffrage

Author:Vilfredo Pareto

“This is what I give. I give an expression of care every day to each child, to help him realize that he is unique. I end each program by saying, 'You've made this day a special day by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you. And I like you just the way you are.' And I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service.”

“A function of a variable quantity is an analytic expression composed in any way whatsoever of the variable quantity and numbers or constant quantities.”

Way Numbers Expression Function Constant Quantity Variables Analytics Euler

Book:Introduction to Analysis of the Infinite

Source: Introduction to Analysis of the Infinite

“Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used 'non' or 'not' - expressive - this is an early problem - a negative solution or - expression of new sense - which can help one into - what one has not known. 'Neutral' expresses an intention.”

Thinking Way Helping Problem Used Known Painting Expression Solutions Negative Intention Surface Spokes Expressive Neutrality

Author:Jasper Johns

“They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the way they have begun; they have voiced most of all the imperative need of essential personalism, of direct expression of direct experience.”

Way Needs Modern Expression Development Essentials Direct Prophet Imperatives Gateways

Book:Adventures in the Arts

Source: Adventures in the Arts

“Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways.”

Way Has Beens Different Inspiration Expression Hundred Different Ways

Author:Robert Lyn Nelson

“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

“Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest scientific achievements.”

Thinking Way Wells Expression Speech Achievement Highest Everyday Conclusion Artistic Analogies

Book:How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method

Source: How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method

“Sexual integrity means honestly recognizing our own impulses and desires and honoring them, whether or not we choose to act on them. If we value integrity, we must also value diversity in sexual expression and orientation, recognizing that there is no one truth, or one way, that fits everyone.Sexuality is sacred because through it we make a connection with another self - but it is misused and perverted when it becomes an arena of power-over, a means of treating another - or oneself - as an object.”

Ifs Way Mean Self Desire Values Objects Expression Fit Integrity Diversity Connections Sacred Oneself Sexuality Honestly One Way Impulse Recognizing Arena Orientation Misused

Book:Dreaming the Dark

Source: Dreaming the Dark

“For - to say a few words on technique - whereas the curved line was used predominantly for reasons of beauty, (Phidias, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rubens) it has been used more and more economically for reasons of truth (Millet, Monet, Paul Cézanne) until it will end as the straight line for reasons of Love. This will enable the art of the future to create an international form; a form understandable to all and vital enough to the expression of a general feeling of love in a monumental way. Such is the future.”

Way Has Beens Art Ends Reason Enough Feelings Form Used Lines Expression International Technique Straight Lines Few Words Raphael Monet Rubens Phidias

Author:Theo van Doesburg

“Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.”

Way Looks May Strong Expression Surface Poison Fabric Doomed Vigorous Germs Poisonous Puritanism

Book:Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.”

Way Art Hours Wealth Our Lives Expression Art Is Increase Commit

Book:A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney

Source: A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney

“Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are.”

Way Wish Expression Letters Wish You

Book:Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters

“We often say, and you have heard the expression as it has already been referred to in this conference, that "as man now is, God once was, and as God now is, man may become." The only way man may become as God now is, is through fulfilling the laws of celestial marriage and the laws of the gospel, as I have just read to you the word of the Lord from the D&C. Can we afford to overlook such opportunities for exaltation? Temple marriage is not just another form of church wedding; it is a divine covenant with the Lord that if we are faithful to the end, we may become as God now is.”

Ifs Men Way May Ends Form Law Opportunity Church Lord Heard Divine Expression Faithful Temples Fulfilling Conferences Covenant Celestial Exaltation Temple Marriage

Author:Eldred G. Smith

“So far as I ever observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves.”

Way Heart Soul Sometimes Expression My Heart Bible Scripture Flight My Soul Peculiar Preacher Penetrate Dealings

Book:The posthumous works of the late Rev. Mr. John Brown, minister of the Gospel at Haddington: with short memoirs, and a summary of what he uttered in his last illness

Source: The posthumous works of the late Rev. Mr. John Brown, minister of the Gospel at Haddington: with short memoirs, and a summary of what he uttered in his last illness

“Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?”

Way Mean Fighting Creative Expression Curiosity Carrie Rough Times

Book:Innocence and experience: stories

Source: Innocence and experience: stories

“The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation.”

Way Self Feelings Opportunity Parent Family Expression Luck Access Mourning Resentment True Self Reconciliation Great Opportunity Free Expression

Author:Alice Miller

“You can't be beautiful and hate because hate is a corroding disease and affects the way you look. ... You can't hide it - ever. It shows in your eyes. It warps your expression. It affects your character, your personality.”

Way Looks Character Shows Eye Beautiful Hate Expression Personality Disease Warp

Author:Bess Myerson

“Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.”

Way Firsts Persons Joy Fun Laughing Tears Expression Idleness Old Ways

Author:Margaret Oliphant

“Although music appeals simply to the emotions, and represents no definite images in itself, we are justified in using any language which may serve to convey to others our musical expressions. Words will often pave the way for the more subtle operations of music, and unlock the treasures which sound alone can rifle, and hence the eternal popularity of song.”

Way May Song Language Sound Emotion Expression Eternal Musical Treasure Appeals Operations Subtle Popularity Definite Justified Rifles Musical Expression

Book:Music and morals

Source: Music and morals

“Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in contrasting tints by way of expression, and you will seldom see two sides of a leaf of the same hue, and the leaf stem frequently gives a good dash of bronze or purple.”

Knows Way Giving Two Sides Nature Color Expression Green Stem Leafs Purple Two Sides Monotonous Hue Palette Bronze

Author:Mabel Osgood Wright

“Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; if not, you probably should not be bothering with his book. But understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.”

Ifs Knows Way Should Two Book Reading Understanding Differences Pay Teacher Subjects Expression Conversation Highest Bother Operations Agreement Two Ways Learners

Author:Mortimer Adler

“For myself I never plan the way I deliver a message. I do prepare the content, and then I open my mouth and give it. And so the expression, the gestures, the emphasis on words, all of that just comes.”

Way Giving Plans Expression Messages Mouths Gestures Emphasis

Author:Anne Graham Lotz

“The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.”

World Way Play Life Is Speak Expression One Way Consistently Commonplace

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information.”

Way Important America Situation Information Expression Tradition Philosophical Response Passing Passings Oral Tradition

Author:August Wilson

“I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.”

World Way Should Kind Art Self Feelings Audience Creative Expression Industry Expectations Excited Engagement Constraints Self Expression

Author:Ayad Akhtar

“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are the philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial state.”