“I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to. It is a question of sometimes choosing what is - in your own mind - of material importance and what isn't, what might be a crucial potential penalty and what might not be.” IfsGivingMindSometimesMightWantedMaterialsImportanceCrucialPenalties Author:Alan Lewis
“Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?” GivingBookOne ThingMaterialsPeriodsNewsNewspapersTeenagerSmarterPublishersTime Periods Author:Tamora Pierce
“I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingWellsTwoPlayShowsSongStuffMaterialsGive MeAlbumsBalancedArchivesRecitals Author:Kate Voegele
“In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves--'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still really try and figure out a way of gaining direct experience with the materials.” PeopleWayGivingTryingFirstsStillsImportantHardHelpingFormThreeUnderstandingBreakMissingFiguresObjectsMaterialsToolsDirectPressesBehaveDigitalQuestsImpressiveRendering Author:Jonathan Ive
“We are a material-mad race of people. Build, increase, expand, pile up, hoard! More and more and more. "If we can just make enough money to-to- !" Jesus said: "Sell what ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth."” PeopleIfsGivingSaidEnoughJesusHeavenRaceMaterialsIncreaseMadSellsTreasureBagsThievesConsumerismOverconsumptionMothsAlms Author:Eugenia Price
“I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old by giving the new slaves the illusion that they are free. The Economy does not take people's freedom by force, which would be against its principles, for it is very humane. It buys their freedom, pays for it, and then persuades its money back again with shoddy goods and the promise of freedom. "Buy a car," it says, "and be free. Buy a boat and be free." Is this not the raw material of bad dreams? Or is it maybe the very nightmare itself?” PeopleThinkingWayGivingDoeDreamWould BeForcePayPrinciplesEconomyCarMaterialsPromiseIllusionSlaverySlaveBoatNightmareGoodsConsumerismHumaneBack AgainOverconsumptionRaw MaterialsBad Dream Book:Jayber Crow: A Novel Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel
“What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space.” GivingStillsLinesSpacePaintingExpressionMaterialsPaintQuestsManualsStill LifeTactileCubism Author:Georges Braque
“The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials; it honors the place where it is done; it honors the art by which it is done; it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing.” GivingArtMadeDoneEarthNamesWorkMaterialsSourceHonorConnectionsUsersGood Work Book:Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays Source: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays
“Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.” WayGivingTwoSpiritProgressColorPaintingMaterialsPaintSensationsProgression Book:The Art Spirit Source: The Art Spirit
“Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.” GivingGrowsUnderstandingMaterialsHappeningsGive MeDeeperMake SenseDeeper Understanding Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“For many years quantum physics had been giving indications that there are levels of reality other than the material level.” GivingYearsRealityLevelsMaterialsPhysicsQuantumIndicationQuantum PhysicsGiving In Author:Amit Goswami
“What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.” GivingMindWellsImportantRealFactsRealitySeemsSpiritImaginationFantasyMaterialsSensesLive ByCartoonAnimation Author:Walt Disney
“If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.” IfsWantGivingYearsWellsTwoSpiritualGivenMaterialsYogaKarmaIntenseTwo YearsSelflessGod ExistsKarma YogaSelfless Giving Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is not the material which gives life form but the space between the material that gives life form.” GivingFormSpaceMaterialsMmaSpace Between Author:Alex Caceres
“I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.” GivingArtSacrificeMaterialsGiving UpConcentration Author:Alice Neel
“Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half a kitten. It is not half as cute as a whole kitten; it is a bloody, godawful mess. A half-good sex scene is not half as hot; it actually moves into the negative numbers, draining any heat from the surrounding material.” GivingWholeMovingSexNumbersHalfMaterialsReaderSceneNegativeHotMessCuteHeatBloodyKittenDrainingGood Sex Author:Sandra Newman
“White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.” WorldGivingHumansLightEarthStrongHeavenPrayerSimpleWhiteSunVirtueMaterialsKeysPureShiningPossessionCirclesInnocenceQueensGloriousCompanionLionsNeverthelessVirginsCovenantLambsInvincibleMaterial WorldArk Author:Honore de Balzac
“The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create and to put his vision of the play or his translation or interpretation of the material on the stage.” GivingStillsPlayArtistRoomsVisionStageMaterialsDirectorsInterpretationTranslations Author:August Wilson
“Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!” GivingBelieveHeavenPoorMaterialsCivilizationEternalGive MeBreadLuxuryBlissMaterialism Author:Bill Vaughan