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“For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this "Celebration" village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first.”

Firsts Littles Ideas Done Artist Instance Village Celebration Florida Institute Walt

Author:John Hench

“The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.”

Hard Film Form Decision Directors Finals Instance Ghouls Film Directors

Author:Trevor Nunn

“This principle applies to your family pet, for instance, which I believe are wonderful because they put you into a great emotional state. When you feel love for your pet, that's a great state of love that's going to bring goodness into your life, what a gift that is.”

Feels Believe States I Believe Principles Wonderful Emotional Goodness Attraction Instance Law Of Attraction Our Family Pet Family Pets

Author:James Arthur Ray

“Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.”

Young Can Do Existence Talent Chess Instance Ridicule Youngsters Young Talent

Author:Aron Nimzowitsch

“While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.”

Play Feelings Song Listening Originals Western Guitar Instance Tunes Swings Captured

Author:Mark Knopfler

“For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.”

Kind Form Given Known Magic Instance Combination Fascinated Popular Music

Author:Brian Eno

“As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.”

Thinking Age Three Business Break Rich Four Singers Instance Broke Buddy

Author:Mel Torme

“I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.”

Success Opinion Cases Bird Instance Connexion

Book:On the Organic Law of Change

Source: On the Organic Law of Change

“Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the laws of physics that their particles have been moved, moulded and conformed. They are no exceptions to the rule that God always geometrizes. Their problems of form are in the first instance mathematical problems, their problems of growth are essentially physical problems, and the morphologist is, ipso facto, a student of physical science.”

“In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.”

Soul Lost Written Influence Huge Convinced Magazines Instance France Crushed Lost Souls

Author:Poppy Z. Brite

“Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in early winter, but the flowers are dying; a particular pebble may never be wetted with the tide, but the tide is coming in. To the scientific eye all human history is a series of collective movements, destructions or migrations, like the massacre of flies in winter or the return of birds in spring.”

“I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal. Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.”

Source: A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel

“The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means.”

Way Mean Has Beens Knowing Information Valuable Technique Instance Could Have Been

Author:Dennis C. Blair

“Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.”

Way Ideas Guy Goal Path Return Instance Pleasant Good Ideas Hunting Going Out Another Way Obliged Mushrooms Waterfalls

Book:El libro de las setas

Source: El libro de las setas

“Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no position whatever to predict its future prospects. He has to wait and see. For instance, the hairy mammoth seems to have been an admirable animal, intelligent and well-accoutered. Now that it is extinct, we try to understand why it failed. I doubt that any biologist thinks he could have predicted that failure. Fitness and survival are by nature estimates of past performance.”

“So when I appear as a kind of shamanistic figure, or allude to it, I do it to stress my belief in other priorities and the need to come up with a completely different plan for working with substances. For instance, in places like universities, where everyone speaks so rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.”

Needs Kind Different Belief Speak Plans Figures Stress University Come Up Priorities Instance Substance

Book:Warhol/Beuys/Polke

Source: Warhol/Beuys/Polke

“In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.”

Ifs Art Ideas Artist Instance Trembling Impressionists

Book:Willem de Kooning

Source: Willem de Kooning

“In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?”

Needs Doe Has Beens Race Fire Arms Bills British Instance Indian Native Justification Restriction Preventing Prominent

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“In fifty years time, the need for true psychics and conscious mediums (such as H.P.B., for instance [Helena Petrova Blavatsky]) will be very great if the Masters' plans are to be carried through to fruition, and the movement must be set on foot in preparation for the coming of Him for Whom all nations wait”

Ifs Needs Years Nations Waiting Plans Feet Movement Masters Conscious Mediums Instance Preparation Fifty Psychics Fruition

Author:Alice Bailey

“Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous misrepresentation of it would never have existed. Though the distorted or magnified image transmitted to us through the refracting medium of rumour, is utterly unlike the reality; yet in the absence of the reality there would have been no distorted or magnified image.”

May Has Beens Reality Absence Mediums Instance Reports Rumor Rumours Misrepresentation

Book:First Principles

Source: First Principles

“The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.”

Humans Force Sin Animal Known Creatures Disease Research Method Excuse Cruelty Cures Instance Experimentation Animal Cruelty Living Creatures Toleration Deadly Sins Maternal Love

Author:Elizabeth Blackwell

“Bluefin tuna spawn just south of the oil spill and they spawn only in the Gulf. If they were to go through the area at a critical time, that's one instance where a plume could destroy a whole species.”

Ifs Whole Areas South Species Critical Oil Instance Spills Spawn Tuna Oil Spill

Author:Larry J. McKinney

“Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.”

Ifs World Believe I Believe Type Instance Squirrels Ulysses

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“I cannot morally blame all Americans for allowing, for instance, the birth of the Federal Reserve System and the money destruction that has followed. They are simply ignorant about it and don’t know what happened or what is happening. They think that prices go up rather than that dollars go down.”

Thinking Knows Happened Birth Happenings Destruction Blame Dollars Ignorant Instance Allowing Reserves Federal Reserve

Author:Robert Prechter

“California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the land rush, the gold rush, the oil rush, the movie rush, the Okie fruit-picking rush, the wartime rush to the aircraft factories — followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful, moving sorrowfully homeward.”

Source: Conversations with Christopher Isherwood

“The more instances we examine, and the more care we employ, the more assurance shall we acquire, that the enumeration, which we form from the whole, is complete and entire.”

Whole Care Form Instance Acquire Assurance

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.”

Wells States Numbers Known Mines Type Projects Environmental Instance Coal Well Known Restoration Removal Dams Wetlands Washington State Reclamation

Author:Matt Gonzalez

“I love them very much. All animals big and small. You can name an ant for instance.”

Bigs Names Animal Instance Ants

Author:Bindi Irwin

“The oneness of community for instance is at the heart of our culture.”

Heart Culture Community Instance Oneness

Author:Steven Biko

“But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.”

Trying May Able Instance Lifting Bootstraps

Book:Sufi Thought and Action

Source: Sufi Thought and Action

“The interesting products out on the Internet today are not building new technologies. They're combining technologies. Instagram, for instance: Photos plus geolocation plus filters. Foursquare: restaurant reviews plus check-ins plus geo.”

Today Interesting Technology Building Products Internet Checks Instance Restaurants Plus Reviews Instagram New Technology Filters Combining Foursquare

Author:Jack Dorsey

“There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.”

People World Problem Building Block Instance Robots Captured

Author:Marvin Minsky

“If we are to maximize the potential of young girls everywhere, we have to think, in this instance, literally outside the box. And the first step of doing that is to see the box for what it really is: A perfect, pretty PROBLEM.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Problem Young Girl Perfect Steps Boxes Instance First Steps Outside The Box

Author:David Trumble

“God calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters. That is where we are, even in the evangelical churches, and I don't mind telling you that most of the people we say we are trying to reach will never come to a church to see a lot of amateur actors putting on a home-talent show.”

People Trying Mind Shows Home Running Actors Church Poor Talent Worship Theater Entertainment Instance Evangelical Talent Show

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.”

Ifs Knows Way Should Different Play Feelings Light Wonderful Instance Different Ways Japan Brahms Debussy Mendelssohn

Author:Kurt Masur

“It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.”

World Years Persons Stills Spirit Belief Five Wonderful Creation Thousand Argument Instance Paranormal Thousand Years After Death Appearing Undecided Creation Of The World

Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides

“God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.”

Trying Body Earth Faith Found Term Hours Loses Known Failing Prove Your Body Hardest Instance Recalls Assistance Sinking Forsaken Eleventh Hour Beck And Call

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a natural process, history a human one.... Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature--for instance in a biological survey of evolution--we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.”

Men Way Humans Would Be Process Natural Evolution Treats Historical Instance Developing Unconscious Contrast Better Ways Surveys Doers

Author:Owen Barfield

“The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.”

“Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.”

Law Justice Common Instance Combination Customs Adaptation Common Law

Book:The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval Carmina Burana - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.”

Kind Doe Enough Use Age Stuff Instance Comparison Poetry Is Latin Verses Rhyme Indispensable Glances Medieval Crude

Author:James Fenton

“You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.”

Society Travel Instance Perceive Customs Tourists Tourism

Book:Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)

Source: Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)

“There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.”

Character Feelings Spirit Left Perfect Animal Poor Doubt Fine Ass Destroyed Instance Ridicule

Author:Mark Twain

“Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.”

Men Has Beens Consequence Good Things Instance Ruined Hurtful

Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

“Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer?”

Men Book Sometimes Reading Wish Race Fields He Man Instance Books And Reading

Book:The Early Simple Stories

Source: The Early Simple Stories

“Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.”

Men Reason Certain Ability Instance Qualified

Book:Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

“The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated people have more ways to make friends... . In England, for instance, you find everyone in your class has read the same books. Here, people grope for something in common-like a newly engaged girl who came to me and said, "It's absolutely wonderful! His uncle and my cousin were on the same football team.”

People Way Said Book Whole Culture Girl Friendship Ability Common Class Wonderful Team Football Civilization Capacity England Educated Instance Engaged Uncles Cousin Football Team My Cousin

Author:Margaret Mead

“To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?”

Want Problem Easy Enjoy Drug Adults Harder Addiction Debt Instance Where You Are Teenage Drug Taking

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow ... It is impossible to be alive and safe.”

Life Is Fun Results Race Alive Impossible Dangerous Danger Design Safe Horse Instance Cows

Book:Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .

Source: Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .

“At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd”

Ifs Knows Feels Has Beens Poetry Highest Likes Instance Odd Poetry Is Polish Doubtful Superb

Author:Walt Whitman

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