Best materials & doe Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.”

Ifs Knows Doe Stories Differences Audience Materials Tables Dinner Dinner Table

Author:Jackie Mason

“But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.”

Mind Doe Body Moving Four Awareness Materials Elements Stones Plant Four Elements

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“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?”

Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel

“Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.”

Men Doe Matter Hands Form Values Process Results Economic Objects Materials Benefits Transformation Productions Handle Contact Producers Consumers Location Availability

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..'If you don't like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.”

Ifs Doe Force Walks Fire Materials Workers Cards Frying Frying Pans

Author:Friedrich Engels

“It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because pictures can be made of any size desired, or else for convenience... so that they can be sent anywhere with very little trouble and expense.”

Littles Doe Made Trouble Materials Paint Size Expenses Customs Splits Canvas Worms Convenience Venice

Book:The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

Source: The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

“Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?”

Doe Art Fate Materials Art Is Management Manipulation

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.”

Way May Doe Peace Growth Moral Materials Comfort Increase Materialism Material Possessions Moral Growth

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races or genders - fighting for suzerainty. In these societies spun out of Marxist theorizing, good will does not exist, only the material interests of warring groups. Morality resides in the oppressed, but if the oppressed succeed in becoming hegemonic, their claim to moral supremacy evaporates.”

“What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?”

“A millionaire is a person who is free, who does what she loves, who has unlimited materials, her choice of tools, abundance, inspiration, freedom and an inflated sense of entitlement to have, create and get more.”

Persons Doe Inspiration Choices Materials Tools Prosperity Abundance Unlimited Millionaire Entitlement Sense Of Entitlement

Author:Sara Genn

“A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and sisters; and it notices that the whole of their affection is lavished upon it once more whenever it arouses their anxiety by falling ill. It has now discovered a means of enticing out its parents' love and will make use of that means as soon as it has the necessary psychical material at its disposal for producing an illness.”

Mean Children Doe Whole Use Fall Parent Enjoy Share Brother Materials Anxiety Greed Ill Affection Illness Brothers And Sisters Parents Love Enticing

Book:Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria

Source: Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria

“The essence of spirituality does not consist in a specialised or narrow interest in some imagined part of life, but in a certain enlightened attitude to all the various situations which obtain in life. It covers and includes the whole of life. All the material things of this world can be made subservient to the divine game, and when they are thus subordained they become auxiliary to the self-affirmation of the spirit.”

“A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization.”

Doe Form Ability Materials Unique Machines Organization Unity Productions Speed Clarity Goods Expenses Mechanism Documentaries Continuity Discretion Reduction Precision Friction Subordination

Author:Max Weber

“I think each album does have a different energy, otherwise you'd be doing the same thing again and not experimenting anew... Albums are such autobiographical material, not in the material but as an expression of what you're like at the time.”

Thinking Doe Different Energy Expression Materials Albums

Author:Kate Bush

“Some people have low susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. These are the people who aren't interested in money. Material acquisition does not serve their need for the power process.”

People Needs Doe Process Materials Lows Marketing Technique Advertising Acquisition Susceptibility Advertising And Marketing

Book:The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

Source: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

“As South Korea shows, active participation in international trade does not require free trade. Indeed, had South Korea pursued free trade and not promoted infant industries, it would not have become a major trading nation. It would still be exporting raw materials (e.g., tungsten ore, fish, seaweed) or low-technology, low-price products (e.g., textiles, garments, wigs made with human hair) that used to be its main export items in the 1960s.”

Source: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

“Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do not have their source in experimental method, which is acquainted only with sensible appearances and can discover nothing beyond them. The resolution of these questions transcends the methods used by physics; it is the object of metaphysics. Therefore, if the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.”

Ifs Doe Two Reality Law Used Objects Materials Theory Source Aim Method Appearance Physics Resolution Sensible Metaphysics Theoretical Subordinates Autonomous Theoretical Physics

Author:Pierre Duhem

“Good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects few materials for its own operations, and preserves safety, but never gains supremacy.”

Wells Doe Happiness Success Quality Materials Gains Increase Safety Possession Manage Preserves Operations Good Sense Supremacy

Book:Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt

Source: Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt

“Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to material success, or the clinging to it, is an attachment.”

People Doe Ideas Self Strange Materials Self Realization Absurd Realization Attachment Clinging Aversion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I do my best writing between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.. Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer, does their best writing between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. My quota is two crappy pages per day. I keep it really low so I'm not so intimidated that I never get started. I will do the gathering of interviews and research throughout the day. I'll get all my notes and materials together and then I'll do the synthesis between 10 p.m. to bed, which is usually 4 or 5 a.m.”

Writing Doe Two Together Materials Bed Pages Lows Research Notes Interviews Productive Consistently Gathering Intimidated Synthesis Quota

Author:Tim Ferriss

“One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will.”

World Doe Universe Sin Materials Pride Capitalism Gods Will Material World Sin Of Pride

Author:David Brooks

“Christianity can be described as a theological materialism: It is that which transforms our material existence. If our faith does not throw us into the arms of the world, if it does not lead to our experience of responsibility, love, celebration, and our commitment to transformation, then, whatever we call it, we have nothing but an empty shell.”

Ifs World Doe Existence Responsibility Christianity Materials Arms Commitment Empty Transformation Materialism Celebration Shells Theological Empty Shell

Author:Peter Rollins

“Worship demands the far distances of God; it protests against the little, the near, the material. It must love but it must look up. It cannot live without the note of spirituality and universality, if not mystery. The ascension, the passing of Christ within the veil, answers this need. So does a full-robed Christianity add to definiteness of knowledge the outreach of imagination and home.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“In general, I feel, or I have come to feel, that the richest writing comes not from the people who dedicate themselves to writing alone. I know this is contradicted again and again but I continue to feel it. They don't, of course, write as much, or as fast, but I think it is riper and more satisfying when it does come. One of the difficulties of writing or doing any kind of creative work in America seems to me to be that we put such stress on production and material results. We put a time pressure and a mass pressure on creative work which are meaningless and infantile in that field.”

“We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.”

Mean Doe Poverty Materials Degrees Intellectual Extremes Circles Vicious Vicious Circles

Book:La vieillesse

Source: La vieillesse

“Relevance is kind of a weird thing. If one does topical material, it makes sense to want to be relevant. But if someone talks about donut sprinkles, it's not quite as important. Unless the U.S. Supreme Court makes a decision outlawing donut sprinkles.”

Ifs Want Kind Doe Important Decision Materials Court Supreme Make Sense Relevant Supreme Court Relevance Weird Things Donuts Sprinkles

Author:Brian Regan

“Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.”

World Doe Spirit Existence Nice Brother Materials Forgotten Painful Illness Comic Necks Apology Infatuation Referring Sufferers Provocation Malady Vicinity

Book:Three Cases for Mr. Campion

Source: Three Cases for Mr. Campion

“[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.”

Giving Doe Philosophy Doors Materials Depends Comfort Thrown Contempt Immense Skirts Skeptic Eminence

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.”

Needs Doe Art Form Music Materials Musician Music Is Dignity

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's songs.”

People Want Doe Care Song Materials Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Mose Allison

“How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.”

Doe Used Challenges Space Technology Building Materials Architecture Architect

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“When men achieve the fruits of their material success, they often become aware of an emptiness--an incompleteness--in their lives;the hollowness of having, but not raising, children, of not making true commitments to them. Which, sadly, does not mean that they weren't capable of it.”

Men Mean Children Doe Achieve Materials Capable Commitment Fruit Emptiness Raising Children Hollowness Incompleteness

Author:Willard Gaylin

“... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy, a brilliancy of conversation--the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.”

Doe States Cities Materials Proud Quiet Conversation Unions Simplicity Prosperity Intellect Intimacy Elsewhere Delightful Grandeur Prominence

Author:M. E. W. Sherwood

“Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.”

Giving Kind Doe House Materials Clothes Fundamentals Educational Cooks Making Love Competence Educational System Entirety

Author:Alan Watts

“Jesus, it is true, shows no personal interest in gain, but he does speak of treasure in heaven and even of mansions as an inducement to follow him. Is it not further true that all religions down the ages have shown a keen interest in the amassment of material goods in the real world?”

World Doe Real Shows Age Jesus Speak Heaven Interest Materials Gains Treasure Goods Real World Mansions Personal Interest Treasures In Heaven

Book:God is Not Great

Source: God is Not Great

“Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense in the construction of works. ...the architect does not demand things which cannot be found or made ready without great expense. For example: it is not everywhere that there is plenty of pitsand, rubble, fir, clear fir, and marble... Where there is no pitsand, we must use the kinds washed up by rivers or by the sea... and other problems we must solve in similar ways.”

“The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his attitude towards the absurd consequences of the theories which he accepts, is indeterminate in many ways, ambiguous, and never fully separated from the historical background . This material is always contaminated by principles which he does not know and which, if known, would be extremely hard to test.”

Source: Against Method

“A prejudice may be an unreasoned judgment, he [Hibben] pointed out, but an unreasoned judgment is not necessarily an illogical judgment. ... First, there are those judgments whose verification has simply dropped out of memory. ... The second type of unreasoned judgments we hold is the opinions we adopt from others ... The third class of judgments in Professor Hibben's list comprises those which have subconscious origin. The material that furnishes their support does not reach the focal point of consciousness, but psychology insists upon its existence.”

“Every soil does not produce every material.”

Doe Produce Materials Soil

Author:Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

“Respecting the environment does not mean considering material or animal nature more important than man. Rather, it means not selfishly considering nature to be at the complete disposal of our own interests, for future generations also have the right to reap its benefits and to exhibit towards nature the same responsible freedom that we claim for ourselves. Nor must we overlook the poor, who are excluded in many cases from the goods of creation destined for all.”

“We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical growth any more than our progress as individuals has to be defined in terms of physical growth. Physical growth of the body reaches a limit, but the character and the soul of the individual continues to grow, or at least has a chance to continue, often to our last breath. It is simple minded to define our well being in material terms, when that well-being has an aesthetic dimension, and intellectual dimension, a moral dimension.”

“Sometime really good writing does you a disservice as an actor. Because you can get lazy. It's doing a lot of the work for you. I guess that's good. But at the same time with material that's not so good, you have to be more inventive, because no thought has been applied to it.”

Writing Doe Has Beens Actors Materials Lazy Good Writing Disservice

Author:Meryl Streep

“Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.”

People Mean Persons Doe Ends Seems Materials Gains Tools Machines Dry Aviation Anxious Airplane Harvest Predictions Advancement Worth Living Technicians

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade. The years thunder by.”

“Take away material prosperity; take away emotional highs; take away miracles and healing; take away fellowship with other believers; take away church; take away all opportunity for service; take away assurance of salvation; take away the peace and joy of the Holy Spirit... Yes! Take it all, all, far, far away. And what is left? Tragically, for many believers there would be nothing left. For does our faith really go that deep? Or do we, in the final analysis, have a cross-less Christianity?”

“Be personal, and original. Try to work clean. Stay away from topical material, as it does not allow you to craft it to make it better for later. And always remember that it is the fans who will make you or break you.”

Trying Doe Remember Break Fans Materials Originals Clean Crafts

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“After a quarter of a century of personal experience and professional observation, I have come to understand that peace of mind is the true goal of the considered life. I know now that the sum of all other possessions does not necessarily add up to peace of mind; on the other hand, I have seen this inner tranquility flourish without the material supports of property or even the buttress of physical health. Peace of mind can transform a cottage into a spacious manor hall; the want of it can make a regal residence an imprisoning shell.”

“I try to think up material that might apply to the subjects they are studying. How many mitochondria does it take to power a cell? One. Because mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Not ready for prime time, that one.”

Thinking Trying Doe Humor Might Funny Study Subjects Ready Materials Cells Prime Not Ready Prime Time Mitochondria

Book:Sleepwalk with Me: and Other Painfully True Stories

Source: Sleepwalk with Me: and Other Painfully True Stories

“Peter Drucker has pointed out that it is a manager's job to "do things right." It is an executive's job to make sure "the right things" get done. Even the most rigorous eco-efficient business paradigm does not challenge basic practices and methods: a shoe, building, factory, car, or shampoo can remain fundamentally ill-designed even as the materials and processes involved in its manufacture become more "efficient."”

Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

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