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“I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems.”

Problem Figures Color Painting Ordinary Structure Traditional Landscape Distinction Lighting Figure Painting

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh’s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.”

Problem Night Pleasure Mystery Streets Shapes Summer Ordinary Rain Empty Absolutes Luminous Skates Odor Pittsburgh Maple Summer Rain Empty Streets

Book:The Dance Most of All: Poems

Source: The Dance Most of All: Poems

“There aren't enough professionals to solve the world's problems. There will never be enough doctors to solve the health problems of the world. There will never be enough teachers to solve the education problems of the world - illiteracy. There will never be enough missionaries to care and comfort and share the Good News. It has to be done by normal, ordinary people.”

People World Done Enough Problem Care Teacher Share Comfort Normal News Ordinary Doctors Solve Good News Ordinary People Illiteracy Health Problems

Author:Rick Warren

“Even in ordinary times there are very few of us who do not see the problems of life as through a glass, darkly; and when the glass is clouded by the murk of furious popular passion, the vision of the best and the bravest is dimmed.”

Problem Passion Vision Ordinary Glasses Furious Clouded

Book:Letters and Speeches

Source: Letters and Speeches

“In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally, whose function is merely to sign off on measures proposed by an executive administration. This is why the problem with democratic rituals is homologous to the great problem of constitutional monarchy: how to protect the dignity of the king? How to maintain the appearance that the king effectively makes decisions, when we all know this not to be true?”

Source: First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

“Most people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my main characters ordinary, average guys, it helps readers identify with their problems. It also helps ground the supernatural events that follow in a recognizable reality and perhaps gives some of my wilder scenarios a little verisimilitude.”

People Thinking Giving Littles Character Helping Problem Reality Guy Wish Class Middle Events Reader Ordinary Average Middle Class Scenarios Main Characters Wilder

Author:Bentley Little

“For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as heroically as he likes, and no one laughs at him. It is almost impossible for a man to behave heroically in the cool and ordinary times of peace. But in war anything is allowed him, he is praised and applauded and made much of, as women are excused and allowed for in pregnancy.”

Men Littles Made War Real Done Problem Running Emotion Laughing Impossible One Thing Needed Activity Ordinary Hatred Likes Behave Pregnancy Childbirth Real Problems Censure

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve.”

Men Character Helping Problem Faces Interesting Expression Speech Ordinary Solve Mood Ingenuity Countenance Interesting Characters Newman

Book:Novels

Source: Novels

“The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.”

Problem Theory Ordinary Operations Resolve Curves Algebra

Author:Joseph-Louis Lagrange

“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

“When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the mind had an upper and lower story and the regular performance of the day's duties moved and motivated on the upper floor, while down below the all-absorbing problem toils silently, forcefully, toward its solution.”

Ifs Mind Stories Problem Duty Ego Solutions Ordinary Performances Moved Work Out Motivated Routine Problem Solving Toil Duality Absorbing

Author:Alice Foote MacDougall

“Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.”

Knows Feels Problem Parent Born Citizens Ordinary Ordinary Citizens

Author:Benigno Aquino III

“Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence of common life. It has a passion for truth and justice and liberty; it is a buoy to people in ordinary trouble: to a friend whose life has gone skidding into the meridian, who has been struck by bad news, who is frying eggs and hash browns and has whiny child clinging to his pant leg.”

“There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.”

Problem Democracy Citizens Ordinary Active Citizenship No Problem Daily Work Ordinary Citizens Active Citizenship

Author:Joan Claybrook

“You look at the absolute scorn that gets poured on a fallen celebrity, whether it's Tom Cruise or Lindsay Lohan or Marlon Brando, or Elvis when he got fat. They're not allowed the dignity of ordinary failure. And I think that plays into people's notions about Los Angeles, too. It's not allowed to be a regular city with problems.”

People Thinking Looks Play Problem Cities Ordinary Dignity Absolutes Notion Fats Fallen Los Angeles Toms Scorn Cruise Brando

Author:Matthew Specktor

“In ordinary life, the phenomenology of embodied emotions is an excellent example for dynamic changes between transparency and opacity: You can "directly perceive" that your wife is cheating you, or you can become aware of the possibility that maybe it is you who has a problem, that your "immediate" emotional representation of social reality might actually be a misrepresentation.”

Problem Reality Might Social Emotion Wife Example Possibility Emotional Ordinary Excellent Perceive Cheating Representation Transparency Ordinary Life Phenomenology Misrepresentation

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.”

“I wrote a call to the contemporary Muslim conscience, saying to the ordinary people that we might not like the video or the cartoons, but that violence certainly isn't the right answer. I don't think laws are going to solve the problem.”

People Thinking Problem Might Law Answers Violence Ordinary Conscience Solve Video Contemporary Cartoon Ordinary People Right Answers

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“The problem with Maigret is he hasn't got a limp, and he hasn't got a lisp, and he hasn't got a French accent, or a particular love of opera... or all those other things that people tend to attach to many fictional detectives. He's just an ordinary guy doing an extraordinary job, in a very interesting time.”

People Problem Jobs Guy Interesting Particular Ordinary Extraordinary Opera Accents Very Interesting Detectives Lisp Interesting Times

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.”

Problem Women Rights Equal Ordinary Equality Complicated Reform Womens Rights Equal Rights Doubted Right Direction Women Rights Equality Of People Equality For All Women Right

Author:Alice Paul

“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

“Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.”

Doe Problem Stuff Sound Ordinary Instruments Guitarist

Author:Nick Cave

“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.”

“The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of the organic world & its connection with the time past & with Man; that it involves the question of Man & his relation to the brutes, of instinct, intelligence & reason, of Creation, transmutation & progressive improvement or development. Each set of geological questions & of ethnological & zool. & botan. are parts of the great problem which is always assuming a new aspect.”

“Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and rich in chemical ideas, he imparted the latter to his advanced pupils, to be put by them to experimental proof; he thus brought his pupils gradually to think for themselves, besides showing and explaining to them the methods by which chemical problems might be solved experimentally.”

Thinking Ideas Problem Might Science Rich Teacher Degrees Ordinary Method Proof Experiments Productive Latter Chemicals Unusual Explaining Pupils

Author:Hermann Kolbe

“These phantoms speak with human voices — friendly, vapor- like shapes, without substance, able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and out through the walls of the fuselage as though no walls were there. At times, voices come out of the air itself, clear yet far away, traveling through distances that can't be measured by the scale of human miles; familiar voices, conversing and advising on my flight, discussing problems of my navigation, reassuring me, giving me messages of importance unattainable in ordinary life.”

“The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward. The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.”

“Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.”

People Problem Used Situation Mystery Ordinary Everyday Solve Chess Typical Everyday Life Ordinary Life

Author:Garry Kasparov

“The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.”

Way Problem Speak Language Wish Serious Ordinary Structure Atoms

Author:Werner Heisenberg

“The ordinary adult never gives a thought to space-time problems ... I, on the contrary, developed so slowly that I did not begin to wonder about space and time until I was an adult. I then delved more deeply into the problem than any other adult or child would have done.”

Giving Children Done Problem Space Wonder Ordinary Adults Contrary Time And Space Space Time

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

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