“Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power.” InspirationalEffortSituationSubjectsProduceBuddhismClarityAddressesBest EffortKnowledge And PowerOccupy Yourself Author:Frederick Lenz
“Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope. ... People are suddenly gazing at something else and pausing for a moment. And for the duration of that gaze and pause, they are like reflectors of the totality of their own knowledge and/or ignorance. That’s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities.” PeopleIfsDifferentMomentsCan DoConsciousnessSubjectsPossibilityIgnoranceDeeperDebateAddressesSomething NewPoolPausesAngleEntrancesTotalityDurationGazingDifferent AnglesPausing Author:Seamus Heaney
“A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address.” PeopleShouldWritingIdeasSoundRealizingSubjectsAddressesWriting Poems Author:Matthea Harvey
“The general public doesn't know and probably doesn't care about punctuated equilibria nor indeed should they, or the greenhouse effect on some other planet - they barely have the ability to cope with the greenhouse effect on their own planet. So I think you have to distinguish between the broad visibility of a scientist when he or she is speaking to a general public and trying to address general issues and the continued position that a scientist may have into the history of a particular subject.” ThinkingKnowsShouldTryingMayCareAbilityIssuesSubjectsEffectsPositionParticularPlanetsScientistAddressesBroadsEquilibriumGreenhousesGeneral PublicVisibility Author:Richard Lewontin
“When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools - I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.” MenWayWellsMayShowsCausesDifficultTeachingSubjectsFoolThousandTenPerfectionIntelligentAddressesOne ManMultitudesEmbarrassmentCondemnationIntelligent ManPerplexityDifficult Subjects Book:The Guide for the Perplexed Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“I find that all these subjects that I'm dealing with tend to lead me to religion and politics one way or another. It's not something that I necessarily want to address, but it seems like it's screaming at me to pay attention to it.” WayWantSeemsPayAttentionSubjectsOne WayPay AttentionAddressesLeading MeReligion And Politics Author:Robert Longo
“My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.” MatterAsksVisionSubjectsPhotographAddressesLiteralSubject Matter Author:Uta Barth