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“I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite out of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases.”

Order Given Ordinary Paint Enthusiasm Covered Lacking

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature.”

Knows May Law Certain Order Known Conditions Higher Ordinary Miracle Contrary Superiors Inferiors Laws Of Nature

Book:Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

Source: Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

“The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.”

Joy Order Enemy Demand Goodness Ordinary Perfection Imperfection

Author:Richard Rohr

“Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting into the real nature of one's own mind or soul is the fundamental object of Zen Buddhism. Zen, therefore, is more than meditation and Dhyana in its ordinary sense. The discipline of Zen consists in opening the mental eye in order to look into the very reason of existence.”

Mind Looks Real Soul Reason Eye Purpose Order Nature Existence Meditation Objects Masters Buddhism Discipline Ordinary Fundamentals Insight Opening Zen Buddhism Dhyana

Book:An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

Source: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

“From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life to pay due attention to the strength of the body. They may take daily what they consider a sufficient amount of exercise; but the exercise is not calculated to keep the various limbs and muscles, still less the internal organs, in proper working order. Amid the ordinary concerns of life the man may appear strong, even stalwart. But when occasion arises for some special muscular exercise, or taxing the action of some organ, he finds out his weakness.”

“Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.”

Order Three Class Ordinary Mortals Range Merit Mathematician Newton

Book:Men of Mathematics

Source: Men of Mathematics

“For the law, the clarity of language and the finality of judgment is crucial, because you have to decide a case one way or another - whether it is criminal or civil or whatever. In ordinary life, you do not have to decide things with absolute finality. You do not have to decide on a theory in order to behave in a certain way towards other people.”

People Way Law Certain Order Language Cases Theory Judgment Ordinary Absolutes Criminals Clarity One Way Behave Crucial Ordinary Life Finality

Author:Talal Asad

“The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem is to transform without deforming. He must gain intensity in form and content by bringing a subjective order into an objective chaos.”

Giving Problem Reality Form Order Ordinary Gains Cameras Chaos Photographer Objectives Intensity Subjective Facilitate Giving In

Author:Ernst Haas

“The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to the imperatives of the global economic order.In addition, we increasingly live in a virtual world in which our reality is filtered through media and information technology.”

“Doing work which has to be done over and over again helps us recognize the natural cycles of growth and decay, of birth and death, and thus become aware of the dynamic order of the universe. "Ordinary" work, as the root meaning of the term indicates, is work that is in harmony with the order we perceive in the natural environment.”

Done Helping Order Universe Growth Term Natural Environment Birth Ordinary Roots Harmony Perceive Cycles Decay Natural Environment Birth And Death

Author:Fritjof Capra

“The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be fixed firmly in every-day life, so that everybody may be able to climb up it along with us. When people then find that they have got climbed up higher and higher into a marvelous, magical world, they will feel that that realm, too, belongs to their ordinary, every-day life, and is, merely, the wonderful and most glorious part thereof.”

People World Feels May Able Order Literature Wonderful Feet Higher Ordinary Fixed Realms Glorious Climbs Heavenly Regions Marvelous Ladders Day Life

Author:E. T. A. Hoffmann

“As far as executing work is concerned, you do it all in order. You do it in contractual order. There's no overlap, it's just continuation of your ordinary work. You move from one project into another.”

Moving Order Projects Ordinary Concerned Continuation Executing

Author:William Monahan

“The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.”

People Order Ordinary Photograph Familiar Fetish

Author:Christian Metz

“Rupert Murdoch gave up his Australian citizenship in order to buy television stations in the United States, which is symptomatic of the way Murdoch operates. Everything is for sale, including his birthright. The Mirror is not read by soccer hooligans. It's read by ordinary people of this country. That comment is simply patronizing. But to be criticized by the Moonies and Murdoch in one breath is really just a fine moment for me.”

“In order to explain why the ordinary Sadhus and Yogis take to tobacco and gānja [an intoxicant], I said that these cause stimulation of the physical brain. But these have reactions. And to stimulate the brain thus is not the proper process.”

Said Order Causes Process Brain Ordinary Reactions Tobacco Stimulation Yogi

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.”

People Looks Sometimes Stories Form Order Models Ordinary Theatre Operations Internals Ordinary People

Author:Pete Townshend

“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. ... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State.”

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

World Way Order Born Natural Careers Technology Five Normal Ordinary Exciting Come Up Reactions Revolutionary Thirty Fifteen Natural Order

Author:Douglas Adams

“The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? — how far? — how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern.”

Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956

“When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to tell anyone. And I believe they may be the things that mean most to you, and that even your own child would have to know in order to know you well at all.”

Thinking Knows Believe Wells May Mean Children Matter Hard Remember Order Courses I Believe Ordinary What Matters

Book:Gilead: A Novel

Source: Gilead: A Novel

“When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse.”

People Ifs World Looks Earth Order Justice Answers Poor Grace Havens This World Willing Despair Happenings Ordinary Optimistic Data Odds Ordinary People Pulse Pessimistic Semblance

Author:Paul Hawken

“The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far.”

Want Giving Feels Looks Persons Soul Suffering Order Forget Possibility Giving Up Ordinary Deserve Guilt Mere Obstacles Ordinary Person

Book:The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition

“Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice, it is not because He is not speaking so much as that we are not listening. We must recognize that all things are in God and that God is in all things, and we must learn to be very attentive, in order to bear God speaking in His ordinary tone without any special accent.”

Order Voice Prayer Attention Failing Special Listening Bears Ordinary All Things Tone Accents God Speaking

Author:Charles Brent

“One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.”

People World Giving Two Sometimes Facts Hands Order Events Ordinary Accounts Visible Historian Relevant Provoking Linked Ordinary People Private Life Inner Life

Author:Victor Hugo

“What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.”

People World Order Justice Grace This World Willing Despair Ordinary Encouragement Odds Ordinary People Semblance

Author:Paul Hawken

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