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Source: Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying

“Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.”

Humans Humanity Loses Quality Human Nature Unexplored

Book:Science and Philosophy

Source: Science and Philosophy

“The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form.”

Whole Able Faces Form Quality Receptive Beholder

Book:I and Thou

Source: I and Thou

“Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.”

Faces Quality Simplicity Enthusiasm Charm Charming Face To Face Candor

Author:Agnes Repplier

“To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art.”

Ifs Art Values Quality Mystery Painting Harm Feats Irreparable Irreparable Harm

Author:Georges Braque

“Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.”

Art Interest Quality Lows Art Is

Author:John Ruskin

“One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.”

Quality Balance Speed Strikes

Author:Clare Short

“This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.”

World Humans Has Beens Ideas Past Order Culture Community Quality Progress This World Changed Return Notion New World Units Society And Culture

Book:Uncommon Sense

Source: Uncommon Sense

“Big box just wasn't our strength. We are a men's and boy's specialty store focused on providing high quality clothing with custom tailoring. Our customer is king. When we had seven stores, communication between the stores and with our customers became more disconnected. We started to lose that great family 'camaraderie' that is essentially the key to our success.”

Men Bigs Loses Quality Boys Communication Keys Kings Seven Boxes Customers Focused Stores Customs Clothings Providing Disconnected High Quality Camaraderie Specialty Great Family

Author:Paul Simon

“Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.”

Men Mind Spiritual Emotion Quality Influence Highest Appearance Occult

Author:Robert Bridges

“But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God.”

Source: Advent with Evelyn Underhill

“I've been worrying about God a little bit lately... It seems like he's been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he's been getting.”

Thinking Littles Seems Bits Quality Worry Lovers Little Bit Mood Bad Mood

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.”

Ideas Quality Affected Quantity New Ideas

Author:Brian Tracy

“Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.”

Self Individual Quality Responsibility Core Mature Self Responsibility

Author:Brian Tracy

“You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.”

Use Ability Quality Degrees Achievement Performances Increase Quantity Efficiency

Author:Brian Tracy

“There is a quality of murky grandeur we give ourselves in having our own feelings, recoiling, separate from other things... To feel that we can care for ourselves without seeing our feelings as objects, and liking them as objects, is to be wrong about our care for ourselves.”

Giving Feels Feelings Care Emotion Quality Seeing Objects Grandeur

Author:Eli Siegel

“It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.”

Children Hands Young Existence Quality Generations Future Our Children Enjoyed Survived Future Generation Quality Of Life Cliche

Author:Prince Philip

“Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?”

Important Courses Individual Quality Originality

Author:Robert Owen

“There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.”

Want Feels Stills Seems Might Goal Quality Ambition Standing Speed Standing Still Hypnotic

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“A white lace curtain on the window was for me as important as a great work of art. This gossamer quality, the reflection, the form, the movement. I learned more about art from that than I did in school.”

Art Important School Form White Quality Movement Reflection Window Works Of Art Curtains Great Work Lace

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“In the track of fear we have so many conditions, expectations, and obligations that we create a lot of rules just to protect ourselves... when the truth is that there shouldn't be any rules. These rules affect the quality of the channels of communication between us.”

Quality Conditions Communication Truth Is Protect Expectations Track Obligation

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals.”

Humans Wells Has Beens Said Human Beings Sin Animal Quality Five Elements Eating Determine Various Flesh Cruelty Tendencies Demonic Well Said Five Elements

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“I've never studied the Japanese. That's something that must have crept in there. But the Japanese are my biggest clients. They seem to like the elemental quality.”

Seems Quality Clients Collectors Elementals

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction.”

Facts Light Term Quality Taken Photography Photographer Photograph Expensive Contradiction Imagery

Author:Damien Hirst

“A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.”

May Art States Numbers Quality Study Degrees Concepts Tradition Infinite Traditional Psychological Merit Remarkable Works Of Art Glances Nostalgic Feats Newness Craftsmanship

Book:The Shape of Content

Source: The Shape of Content

“There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through; when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life.”

People Men Doe Done Eye Quality Fire Highest Paint Painter Lit Getting Old

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“No one trusts me any more. I spent half the movie Maigret (1988) (TV) arguing with people and I was accused of causing big on-set rows. But what they won't tell you is I fought for Simeneon. I fought for the maintenance of quality. I don't believe in lyin.”

People Believe Bigs Half Quality Tvs Don't Believe Arguing Accused Trust Me Maintenance

Author:Richard Harris

“Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold in newsstands. When the New York publishers started publishing quality paperbacks, there was no place to buy them.”

Book Real Quality Mystery New York Murder Trade Pockets Cents Publishing Publishers Murder Mysteries Real Books

Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.”

World Suffering Individual Nations Common Quality Pride Noble Occasions Sentiments Nobility Treacherous Ignoble

Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Real anatomy exists in three dimensions, so any time you can view anatomical data in 3D, you'll have a much more accurate picture of the subject, ... Even multiple two-dimensional CT slices can never allow you to understand a subject's dental condition as quickly or as accurately as a quality 3D visualization.”

Two Real Three Views Quality Conditions Subjects Data Dimensions Accurate Multiple Visualization Anatomy Dental Three Dimensions

Author:Paul Brown

“If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets.”

Ifs Quality Solitude

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“I used to want to pack as much as I could into my life, but now I realize it's more about quality of life than quantity.”

Want Used Realizing Quality Quantity Packs Quality Of Life

Author:Sharon Stone

“It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not.”

Art Values Quality Absolutes Moved Visuals Aesthetic Sheer Concentrating Decoration Visual Art Autonomous Beholder

Book:Clement Greenberg, Late Writings

Source: Clement Greenberg, Late Writings

“Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around it s Outer Walls.”

Mean Certain Quality Taken Wall Stones Originals Ignored Dwelling Epidemics Gormenghast

Book:Titus Groan

Source: Titus Groan

“The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things.”

Humans Spirit Race Quality Expected Human Race Survivor Schemes Human Spirit Indomitable

Author:Martha Gellhorn

“The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.”

Needs Quality Audience Greater Taste Standards

Author:Moses Hadas

“If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.”

Ifs Persons Quality Taken Models Painter

Book:Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

“The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand.”

May Children Quality

Author:Miguel Ferrer

“It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.”

Artist Three Hours Quality Journey Cold Six Stores Snow Wet Tense Snowball

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities... I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.”

Men Art Ideas Form Quality Records Capable Capacity Paint Aids Positively

Author:Morris Graves

“With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives. However, even if the level of customer service is exceptional, the extent to which poorly-understood accents trump quality of service speaks to English-speaking customers' growing intolerance of non-native speech, more so than in other countries.”

“The quality of racing continues to excel with starters increasing to 1496,.”

Quality Excellence Racing Starters

Author:Christopher Nolan

“Yet in a kingdom containing seven constituent parts, which is upheld like the triple staff ,of an ascetic , there is no ,single part more important ,than the others , by reason of the importance of the qualities of each for the others.”

Important Reason Quality Importance Seven Kingdoms Staff Parting Constituents Containing Asceticism

Author:Guru Nanak

“Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.”

Should Quality Economic Scientist Criteria Assessment

Author:John Charles Polanyi

“And preserving our open spaces or having them there for recreational purposes is one of the things that contributes to the high level of quality of life that we offer in Pennsylvania, and that also translates into economic benefits.”

Purpose Space Levels Quality Economic Offers Benefits Translate Quality Of Life Recreation High Level Pennsylvania Open Spaces

Author:Ed Rendell

“I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.”

Thinking Knows Mean Art Artist Quality Greatness Painting Essentials Dimensions Works Of Art Motivated Great Work

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new forms, but there's a kind of cumulative quality.”

Kind Mean Facts Form Grows Process Memories Quality Evolution Proliferation Cumulative

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.”

People Want Use Able Emotion Quality One Thing Faults Sparks Being Me Using Me

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

“It is not the style but the quality and emotional impact of work that makes it marketable. Unless we make art that connects with people, we won't sell much, no matter what the style or subject.”

People Art Matter Quality Subjects Style Emotional No Matter What Impact Sells

Author:Jack White

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