Best objects & important Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.”

Thinking Should Writing Important Book Fiction Awareness Objects Shapes Pace

Author:Thomas Perry

“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.”

People Way Giving Trying Firsts Stills Important Hard Helping Form Three Understanding Break Missing Figures Objects Materials Tools Direct Presses Behave Digital Quests Impressive Rendering

Author:Jonathan Ive

“The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included.”

Ifs Important Light Felt Space Tree Fronts Movement Objects Shapes Mountain Machines Cameras Photographer Being True Grass Texture

Author:Paul Strand

“I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.”

Stills Important Seems Able Found Objects Painting Composition Still Life

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.”

Way Looks Important Use Common Brain Objects Projects Who You Are Common Sense

Book:The Woman I Wanted to Be

Source: The Woman I Wanted to Be

“It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis. All dynamic action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either takes place between two subjects, whether they react equally upon each other, or one is agent and the other patient, entirely or partially, or at any rate is a resultant of such actions between pairs. But by "semiosis" I mean, on the contrary, an action, or influence, which is, or involves, a cooperation of three subjects, such as a sign, its object, and its interpretant, this tri-relative influence not being in any way resolvable into actions between pairs.”

Way Mean Two Important Action Three Force Influence Subjects Objects Patient Rate Contrary Agents Pairs Cooperation Relative Brutes Brute Force

Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter; I use it to enrich the canvas and to probe more deeply into the object. Colour also decided, to a certain extent, my spiritual outlook, but it is subordinated to life, and above all, to the treatment of form. Too much emphasis on colour at the expense of form and space would make a double manifestation of itself on the canvas, and this would verge on craft work.”

“Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by the permission or disposal of Providence, from selfish or social views, yet in time the mysterious will of Heaven is unfolded, and we behold our conduct, from whatever motives excited, operating to answer the important designs of heaven.”

Men Important Soul Heaven Social Natural Answers Interesting Views Powerful Influence Design Objects Curiosity Affection Excited Selfish Mysterious Motive Providence Permission

Author:Daniel Boone

“My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.”

Important Problem Lying Study Objects Structure Application Venture Suggestions Phonetics

Book:A Study in English Metrics

Source: A Study in English Metrics

“It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view... The best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse.”

Way Important Causes Views Objects Ignorance Appreciate Spread Point Of View Aids Best Way Misunderstanding Inability Intercourse Systematic Doings General Knowledge

Author:Nikola Tesla

“The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important of all created things. Man surveys the starry heavens and hears with his ears of the plurality of worlds; yet his religion bids him believe that his alone out of these innumerable spheres is the object of his master's love and sacrifice.”

Men World Believe Doe Important Christian Religion Heaven Teach Sacrifice Objects Masters Ears Regard Intention Humble Spheres Surveys Love And Sacrifice

Book:Views and Opinions

Source: Views and Opinions

“At the other end of the spectrum is, for example, graph theory, where the basic object, a graph, can be immediately comprehended. One will not get anywhere in graph theory by sitting in an armchair and trying to understand graphs better. Neither is it particularly necessary to read much of the literature before tackling a problem: it is of course helpful to be aware of some of the most important techniques, but the interesting problems tend to be open precisely because the established techniques cannot easily be applied.”

Trying Important Ends Problem Courses Literature Interesting Example Objects Theory Sitting Mathematics Technique Helpful Spectrum Tackling Armchairs Graphs

Author:Timothy Gowers

“Scale is a mental - you can say that a lounger has scale, a building has scale, or an object has scale, or a page, or whatever if it's just right. A scale is a relationship to the object and the space surrounding it. And that dialogue could be music, or it could be just noise. And that is why it is so important, the sense of scale.”

Ifs Important Space Objects Building Pages Scales Dialogue Noise

Author:Massimo Vignelli

“We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic. I accept that fact. My house has thousands of books in it, and I've started to look at them completely differently. They now seem to me to be like antiquarian objects. Their use value has become negligible to me because I'm perfectly happy to read on an e-reader.”

Looks Important Book Facts Use Seems Values House Accepting Objects Reader Periods Relevant Analog

Author:Will Self

“It is natural that a man should consider the work of his hands or his brain to be useful and important. Therefore nobody will object to an ardent experimentalist boasting of his measurements and rather looking down on the 'paper and ink' physics of his theoretical friend, who on his part is proud of his lofty ideas and despises the dirty fingers of the other. Experiment and Theory in Physics”

Men Should Important Ideas Hands Natural Brain Objects Theory Proud Paper Fingers Physics Experiments Dirty Despise Boast Ink Theoretical Measurement Lofty Ardent Looking Down

Author:Max Born

“Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be requisite to do it justice. Buildings of every description, from the humble cottage to the lofty temple, are objects of such constant recurrence in every habitable part of the globe, and are so strikingly indicative of the intelligence, character, and taste of the inhabitants, that they possess in themselves a great peculiar interest for the mind.”

Source: A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America: with a view to the improvement of country residences

“I've come to realize that I'm a image maker, not an object maker. Images come to me as photographs because I don't have any other way of express them. I have to translate everything into still or moving pictures. I've learned that reality is not important to me. In the end it is the representation of reality that I'm striving to capture.”

Way Stills Important Ends Reality Moving Realizing Objects Strive Photograph I've Learned Makers Capture Translate Representation

Author:Gerardo Suter

“Human beings are really attuned to their senses. When you work in film, you are working with the visual and audio senses. An understanding of tactile and other components that go into the creation of those objects are important to making them look real on screen, like a plasma of energy.”

Humans Looks Important Real Film Energy Understanding Human Beings Creation Objects Screens Senses Visuals Components Audio Tactile Plasma

Author:John Dykstra

“The primary object of meditation is to not become overly attached to any particular thoughts that may come into to the mind. It is most important to let the mind "flow," with less mental worry about, and attachment to, the various thoughts that may come into the mind.”

Mind May Important Worry Meditation Objects Particular Flow Various Primaries Attachment

Author:Tim McCarthy

“One important object of this original spectroscopic investigation of the light of the stars and other celestial bodies, namely to discover whether the same chemical elements as those of our earth are present throughout the universe, was most satisfactorily settled in the affirmative. (1909)”

Important Body Light Earth Science Universe Stars Objects Elements Originals Chemicals Investigation Celestial Affirmative Celestial Bodies

Book:The scientific papers of Sir William Huggins

Source: The scientific papers of Sir William Huggins

“Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects for themselves. ... Their choices and inventions are rarely charming, usually stupid, and often disastrous; we cannot expect average kids to deviate with genius. But on the other hand, the young men who conform to the dominant society become for the most part apathetic, disappointed, cynical and wasted.”

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“In our work, we are always between Scylla and Charybdis; we may fail to abstract enough, and miss important physics, or we may abstract too much and end up with fictitious objects in our models turning into real monsters that devour us.”

May Important Real Ends Enough Too Much Failing Missing Objects Models Physics Monsters Abstract Charybdis Scylla

Book:Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers

Source: Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers

“It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object.”

World Stills Important Country Objects Productions Countries Of The World

Book:Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism

Source: Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism

“In contact with materials, I can see so much more with my hands than I can just with my eyes. I'm a participant, not a spectator. I see myself both as an object and a material, and the human presence is really important to the landscapes in which I work.”

Humans I Can Important Hands Eye Objects Materials Contact Landscape Spectators Participants

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“The object is not so much to get you to keep a journal while you are young, as it is to get you to continue it after you become men and women, even through your whole lives. This is especially needed in the generation in which you live, for you live in as important a generation as the children of men ever saw, and it is far more important that you should begin early to keep a journal and follow the practice while you live, than that other generations should do so.”

Men Should Children Important Whole Young Practice Saws Generations Objects Needed Men And Women Whole Life Journal Children Of Men

Author:Wilford Woodruff

“We're physical objects, we think of ourselves as these kind of free-floating brains, but the brain is such a little part. It's way smaller than we like to think. We think we're these important human beings. We're not animals or anything. But what did we come out of? What are we made out of? We're made of the same stuff as out there.”

Thinking Way Humans Kind Littles Made Important Stuff Human Beings Animal Brain Objects Floating

Author:Melissa Holbrook Pierson

“Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being that practical application of the most important principles of natural Philosophy which has in a considerable degree realized the anticipations of Bacon, and changed the aspect and state of affairs in the whole world. The most important object of Civil Engineering is to improve the means of production and of traffic in states, both for external and internal Trade.”

“It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth. I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and the fact that I make money at it - big money - is a fine-and-dandy side fact. Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money. I'm concerned about values - moral, ethical, human values - my own, other people's, the country's, the world's values. Having money now gives me the freedom to worry about the things that really matter.”

“The Witness is a huge step forward, and it is a necessary and important step in meditation, but it is not ultimate. When the Witness or the soul is finally undone, then the Witness dissolves into everything that is witnessed. The subject/object duality collapses and there is only pure nondual awareness, which is very simple, very obvious.”

Important Soul Simple Steps Meditation Subjects Awareness Objects Huge Pure Ultimate Obvious Witness Collapse Duality Undone Steps Forward

Book:Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber

Source: Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber

“I consider the proper education of our youths one of the most important objects now to be attained and one from which the greatest benefits may be expected.”

May Important Objects Youth Benefits Expected

Book:Recollections and Letters

Source: Recollections and Letters

“The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.”

Way Trying Mind Important Ideas Use Influence Effects Objects Magician Distortion Old Ideas Falsity

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Beautiful and familiar objects can help us to feel better. Photos of family and friends, which remind us of the people we love and who love us, are important mood-lifters. Items that inspire us or encourage periods of reflection do the same.”

People Feels Important Helping Beautiful Objects Inspire Periods Reflection Mood Familiar Feel Better Family And Friends Items

Book:Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness

Source: Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness

“I find it very sad that so many girls who look up to me are young women of color who have been told that they are ugly, and who feel that they are not normal...I think it's so important that women look like me find that they can be beautiful or objects of love, attention and affection.”

Thinking Feels Looks Has Beens Important Beautiful Young Girl Attention Objects Color Normal Affection Ugly Like Me Look Up Young Women Very Sad

Author:Mindy Kaling

“There are two kinds of photographs: mine and other people's. I never think of what I might do myself when I look at someone else's pictures... there is no subject in the world I have ever wanted to photograph. It's the picture, not the object, that is important to me.”

People Thinking World Looks Kind Two Important Might Wanted Subjects Objects Mines Photograph

Book:Pictures under discussion

Source: Pictures under discussion

“I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.”

Thinking I Can Important War Winning Objects

Book:In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam

Source: In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam

“When you look at pornography, the women become objects, whereas what I'm trying to do is make the person in the photograph as important as their body. And obviously, I like tits and arse, because I just do. I like the sex of taking photographs.”

Trying Looks Persons Important Body Sex Objects Photograph Pornography Arses

Author:Rankin

“Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures and, for example, say no to this way of representing a woman's body? It's also a camera-and-object problem, of who is really guiding the camera.”

Way Important Problem Body Desire Speak Example Objects Cameras Sexuality Contradiction Representing Women's Bodies

Author:Pipilotti Rist

“For me, it's not important whether [subjects] are naked, half-naked, or dressed. What I'm more interested in is how they present themselves: if someone is half-naked and having self-confidence or you have the feeling that she has or he has control of the situation. She likes to do it. Then I have nothing against it. But it's true that society doesn't talk about such issues. They just talk about whether there is a breast or not, but for me it's more interesting how the power game of camera and object is shown. And if it's a cool picture.”

Ifs Important Self Feelings Games Interesting Half Situation Issues Subjects Objects Cameras Self Confidence Likes Naked Breasts

Author:Pipilotti Rist

“Being in church so often, spending those hours sitting in front of a highly symbolic array of objects, hearing those beautiful texts - it teaches a kid that there are important truths beyond the literal ones, and that we have ways to access those truths that are, let's say, super-rational.”

Way Important Kids Beautiful Hours Church Teach Fronts Objects Truth Is Sitting Hearing Spending Access Rational Symbolic Literal

Author:George Saunders

“Except for the woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of esthetic appreciation.”

Men Important Seems Eye Interest Objects Appreciation Automobile

Author:Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

“In the religion of the Medes and Persians the cult of trees plays an important part, and with them, as with Assyrians, the symbol of eternal life was a tree with a stream at its roots. Another object of veneration was the sacred miracle tree, which within itself contained the seeds of all.”

Life Important Play Religion Tree Objects Eternal Roots Eternity Miracle Sacred Seeds Symbols Streams Cult Eternal Life Veneration Assyrians

Book:History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes

Source: History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes

“The identifying personal association with objects, which are not personal, is an important modern experience - our real association, the strands of our feelings about the objects that surround us. It's also because they are so familiar, we don't think of them as important in the world, but actually they are the world. We are living in a very material world.”

Thinking World Important Real Feelings Modern Objects Materials Familiar Surround Association Identifying Strands Material World

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“I can only speak for myself but for me imagination and invention cannot generate something more important, more beautiful and more terrifying than the common object, amplified by the attention that we give it. An object alone, in front of me who is alone, exactly in front of me just as I would like to have in front of me someone who really interests me, in a good light to better observe it.”

Giving I Can Important Light Beautiful Speak Interest Imagination Common Attention Fronts Objects Invention

Author:Domenico Gnoli

“Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.”

Feels Important Moments Choices Decision Subjects Objects Affair Free Choice

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I do get a little shy about contemporary language and events, but I also enjoy the idea of dating myself, somehow, anchoring a song in a specific time and place. Sometimes the new words and objects are too enjoyable and descriptive to ignore. And maybe making work that acknowledges that it won't last forever is important, too.”

Littles Important Ideas Sometimes Lasts Song Language Enjoy Forever Events Objects Dating Contemporary Acknowledge Shy Enjoyable New Words

Author:John K. Samson

“I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.”

Trying Firsts Art Important Objects Photography Photographer Photograph

Author:Jacques-Henri Lartigue

“The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.”

Life Mind Important Objects Mark Pursue Characteristics Great Minds

Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Objects Quotes

Related topics

Objects Quotes