“Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify.” LightEyeHalfStudySubjectsEasierDrawsStartingExaggeratedClosed Eyes Author:Stan Smith
“Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are there so you can break through to the eternal. Spirituality is about awakening the eyes, the ears, the heart so you can see what's always happening right in front of you.” HeartEyeSpiritualSpiritualityReligiousPrayerBreakStudyMeditationFrontsReadyDisciplineEternalHappeningsEarsAwakeningRitualRealismVowBreak ThroughSpiritual Disciplines Author:Richard Rohr
“Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body.” IfsSoulMatterPhilosophyUseBodyLightEyeSpiritualSleepStudyShadowVicesCommunicateIntellectSubstanceContemplationRaysSpiritual LifeDevotedAwakenedAngelic Book:The Book of the Courtier Source: The Book of the Courtier
“Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.” MenWorldFirstsLooksChildrenEyeMotherPassionSpeakUnderstandingStepsWatchesStruggleStudyExampleSourceArmsHabitFirst TimePrejudiceMirrorsStrikesHis EyesCradleBack In TimeWrappingPower Of ThoughtUnclear Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“We have reached one of the great stages in the adventure of thought … We are required to see the universe with new eyes, and it is because it makes such demands and also holds out the promise of realizing them, that the study of science is so supremely worth while.” EyeUniverseRealizingStudyStageAdventurePromiseDemandNew Eyes Author:J. W. N. Sullivan
“The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children the history of the game of marbles has quite as much importance as the history of religion or of forms of government. It Is a history, moreover, that is magnificently spontaneous; and it was therefore perhaps not entirely useless to seek to throw light on the child's judgment of moral value by a preliminary study of the social behaviour of children amongst themselves.” ChildrenLightSeemsGovernmentEyeFormValuesGamesSocialWaterMoralStudyJudgmentImportanceUselessDiscussionBehaviourSpontaneousMarbleForms Of GovernmentMoral ValuesMoral JudgmentDeep WaterEyes Of A Child Author:Jean Piaget
“They found a scrapbook with photos of Osama bin Laden from the '90s, and they're studying each and every photo very, very closely. My favorite shot of Osama bin Laden was right between the eyes.” EyeFoundStudyShotsMy FavoriteBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:David Letterman
“To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing a dogma, eyes and mind closed to the possible consequences, the even marginally possible, is to make things too comfortable for oneself.” MindWellsEyeStudyRiskInvolvedComfortableConsequenceOneselfToneRejectsCensorshipDogmaExes Book:Parthian Words Source: Parthian Words
“Books, of which the principles are diseased or deformed, must be kept on the shelf of the scholar, as the man of science preserves monsters in glasses. They belong to the study of the mind's morbid anatomy, and ought to be accurately labelled. Voltaire will still be a wit, notwithstanding he is a scoffer; and we may admire the brilliant spots and eyes of the viper, if we acknowledge its venom and call it a reptile.” IfsMenMindMayStillsBookEyePrinciplesStudyHe ManOughtGlassesBrilliantWitMonstersAdmireSpotsPreservesAcknowledgeScholarShelvesAnatomyMorbidDiseasedVenomReptilesVipersScoffers Author:Robert Aris Willmott
“[While shooting close-ups] you study real eyes, you study how the light reflects in them, you study the back of the eye, you study the way irises reflect emotion. You go into great scientific detail.” WayRealLightEyeEmotionStudyDetailsShootingIrisesReal Eyes Author:Peter Jackson
“I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.” IfsArtIdeasEyeWantedActingStudyAliveCollegeSeriousTheaterNo IdeaPerformingRelatedIf I CouldLinksCowboyExaminingFireman Author:Billy Crystal
“Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to what may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight.” WorldGivingMayEyeHappinessJoyEvilChanceViewsStudyFateSceneSucceedGiving UpMiseryFortuneDisappointmentPursuitWanderGoodsUnhappinessMisfortunesPursuit Of HappinessForesightLiable Book:Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics) Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)
“What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? ... wearying himself with climbing upon every ascent, ... bruising himself with continual falls, and at last breaking his neck? And all this, from an imagination that it would be glorious to have the eyes of people looking up at him, and mighty happy to eat, and drink, and sleep, at the top of the highest trees in the kingdom.” PeopleMenWould BeEyeLastsScienceNightFallImaginationSleepBrainStudyTreeDrinkHighestSillyKingdomsGloriousNecksClimbingExtravagantAscent Author:William Law
“We can work, study, laugh and have fun, dance, sing, and enjoy many different experiences. These are a wonderful part of life, but they are not central to why we are here. The opportunity to choose good over evil is precisely why we are here. Not one of us would say, "I want to choose evil." We all want to choose the right. However, the choice of good over evil is not always easy, because evil frequently lurks behind smiling eyes.” WantDifferentEyeChoicesEvilOpportunityFunEasyEnjoyBehindsLaughingStudyWonderfulHaving FunParts Of LifeDifferent ExperiencesWhy We Are HereGood Over Evil Author:Neil L. Andersen
“I had to fight to be me and get respect, and to carry that stigma, for me, is pride. Carrying the tag of lesbian. I'm not bragging, I'm not preaching, but I don't deny it . I had to face society, the Church, which says damn gay people ... it's absurd. How do you judge someone who has been born that way. I did not study to be a lesbian. Neither was it taught to me. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world. I've never slept with a man. Never. I'm pure, I don't have to be ashamed ... My Gods made me so.” PeopleMenWorldWayHas BeensMadeEyeFacesFightingBornChurchStudyTaughtJudgingPrideGayPureDenyAbsurdDamnAshamedPreachingStigmaGay PeopleBraggingTagBorn This Way Author:Chavela Vargas
“I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view it as something that I would want to do. But I got fired as a secretary, and then I started studying, I started doing it just to earn money. And it took me a long time to learn to love it. And what I loved was telling a story. I tried to avoid making plays or films that weren't telling a story that I felt was important. I discovered in the process that it makes you more empathic because you have to enter someone else's reality and learn to see through many other people's eyes.” PeopleWantLongImportantPlayStoriesHomeRealityEyeWantedFilmJoyActorsFeltProcessViewsStudyDadLong TimeMy DadSecretary Author:Jane Fonda
“He who walks may see and understand. You can study all America from one hilltop, if your eyes are open and your mind is willing to reach. But first you must walk to that hill.” IfsMindFirstsMayEyeAmericaWalksStudyWillingHills Author:Hal Borland
“I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have for martial arts, so when I was 18 years old, I started studying performing arts with the eye of getting into the film industry and went to drama school after that.” YearsArtEyeSchoolFilmStudyIndustryDramaPerformingMartial ArtsFilm IndustryMuch LovePerforming Arts Author:Scott Adkins
“A religious belief is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the grasp of human thought. In short, a religious belief is only a finger pointing to the moon. Some religious people never get beyond the study of the finger. Others are engaged in sucking it. Others yet use the finger to gouge their eyes out. These are the bigots whom religion has made blind. Rare indeed is the religionist who is sufficiently detached from the finger to see what it is indicating - these are those who, having gone beyond belief, are taken for blasphemers.” PeopleHumansMadeUseRealityEyeBeliefReligiousGoneStudyTakenMysteryMoonBlindFingersStatementsEngagedCluePointingHintsDetachedReligious BeliefBigotsHuman ThoughtPointing Fingers Author:Anthony de Mello
“Every line of true knowledge must find its completeness as it converges on God, just as every beam of daylight leads the eye to the sun. If religion is excluded from our study, every process of thought will be arrested before it reaches its proper goal. The structure of thought must remain a truncated cone, with its proper apex lacking.” IfsEyeProcessGoalLinesSunStudyStructureLackingArrestedBeamDaylightExcludedCompletenessTrue KnowledgeConesApex Author:Robert Dabney