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“Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.”

World Mean Death Dying Aspect Sexy Subtle Pagan Impermanence Lack Of Love

Book:Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal

Source: Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal

“You may be living under the illusion that when God ignites great things in your life, He'll announce it with a big bang. He might. It's more likely that He won't. So stop waiting around for the big bang. Pay attention to the subtle clues and the still, small voice. God lives in that place too.”

Source: Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“Much like a subtle spider which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side.”

Ifs Feels Sides Middle Garden Wide Subtle Thread Spiders

Book:The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces

Source: The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces

“...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.”

Law Behinds Connections Remains Memorable Subtle Penetrate Inexplicable Intangible

Author:Albert Einstein

“I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there. One of the great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago is needed.”

Men Two War Eye Faces Artist Three President Lines Dark Cutting Sadness Century Expression Needed Caught Painter Civil War Brown Subtle Portraits Abraham Latent Indirect

Author:Walt Whitman

“I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what any of them are thinking.] Which is much more of a cinematic technique. Something written in third person objective is what the camera sees. Because unless you're doing a voiceover, which is tremendously clumsy, you can't hear the ideas of characters. For that, we depend on subtle clues that the directors put in and that the actors supply. I can actually write, "'Yes you can trust me,' he lied." [But it's better to get inside the characters' heads.]”

“The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the writing is freed, the lanuage is full, resources are plentiful, ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of these ideas surprise me. It seems as thought the universe is my friend and is helping me write, its hand over mine.”

Writing Ideas Helping Hands Seems Moving Universe Mines My Friends Resources Surprise Subtle Cracks Frank Muse Surprise Me Nudge Plentiful

Book:The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life

Source: The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life

“Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique.”

Trying Wonderful Impossible Technique Chess Subtle Capablanca

Author:Mikhail Tal

“You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.”

Ifs Want Photography Photographer Visuals Subtle

Author:Elliott Erwitt

“In your body, there exists a subtle current of electricity, very subtle. But the subtler it is, the deeper it goes. It is not very visible. Scientists say that all the electricity that is in your body, if put together, can be used to light a five-candle bulb. It is not much. Quantitatively it is not much, quantitatively the atom is not much, but qualitatively... If it explodes, it has tremendous energy in it.”

Ifs Body Light Together Used Energy Five Scientist Currents Deeper Your Body Visible Subtle Atoms Candle Electricity Bulbs Tantra

Author:Rajneesh

“Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This vastly complicates the problems of economic organisation. Plainly if it were not for opportunism all behaviour could be rule governed”

Ifs Self Problem Form Interest Effort Economic Economics Seeking Subtle Deceit Behaviour Disguise Self Interest Mislead Involving Organisation Guile Opportunism

Author:Oliver E. Williamson

“Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.”

Grows Sin Despair Vices Lust Commit Subtle

Author:Piers Paul Read

“The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.”

People Littles Literature Humour Genius Wit Subtle

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.”

World Firsts Facts Home Profound Subtle Hinduism Glances Transcendent Multiplication Methodists Personification Hindu Religion Hindu God

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.”

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.”

Art Language Expression Art Is Subtle Sensations Extensions

Author:Robert Henri

“Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.”

Life Years Moving Life Is Lost Change Space Secret Journey Modern Movement Travel Years Ago Universal Notion Metaphor Terror Confusion Subtle Refuge Modern Life Tourism

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.”

States Government United United States Special Constitution Foundation Supreme Subtle Fabric Judicial Judiciary Miners Ordination Judicial Branch Sappers

Book:Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state

Source: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state

“Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.”

Made War Self Peace Subtle Covenant Masquerade

Book:The Poems of John Dryden

Source: The Poems of John Dryden

“There prevails still a subtle form of legalism which would rob the Saviour of his crown of glory, earned by the cross, and would make of him a second Moses, offering us the stones of the law instead of the life-bread of the gospel.”

Stills Form Law Glory Stones Crosses Bread Subtle Offering Crowns Moses Saviour Legalism

Book:Grace and Glory

Source: Grace and Glory

“You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change it's nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at different speeds; you play it backwards; you add it to itself over and over again. You adjust filters, echoes, acoustic qualities…you produce a vast and subtle symphony. It's a sort of modern magic. We think there's something in it. Some musicians believe it may become an art form in its own right.”

Thinking Believe May Art Different Play Form Sound Quality Records Magic Modern Produce Musician Add Speed Operations Subtle Echoes Backwards Symphony Filters Acoustics Multiplicity

Author:Daphne Oram

“The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body and brain, is not very credible in the modern scientific worldview.”

Ideas Body Spiritual Brain Consciousness Modern Subtle Collapse Worldview Credible

Author:Stephen Batchelor

“I'm good at using my face as a canvas… I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are.”

Thinking Trying Persons Character Together Faces Seeing Streets Photograph Subtle Copies Canvas Noticing Observant

Author:Cindy Sherman

“It did not feel like something that was going to take over my life and destroy it. It felt like a subtle flower instead of a manipulative demon. That's the mystery of heroin.”

Feels Felt Mystery Flower Demon Subtle Like Something Heroin Manipulative Heroin Addiction

Author:Corey Feldman

“The one radio voice that I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and I'd sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words.”

Way Trying Voice Quality Clean Jazz Radio Subtle Fascinated Casual

Author:Doris Day

“Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.”

Author:Paul Muni

“I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.”

Kind Play Character Difficult Challenges Audience Easier Subtle Idiotic Likeable

Author:Steve Coogan

“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?”

Said Universe Majors Bigger Prophet Awe Subtle Elegant Organized Religion Pale Blue Dot Subtle Atheist Astronomy And Universe

Book:Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“Mads Mikkelsen’s acting is very subtle, precise, nuanced, so he brings something completely different to the character. If you compare Mads’ Hannibal to Anthony Hopkins’ for example. Not to mention that Mads Mikkelsen is very handsome and sexy, so he brings that to the character as well.”

Ifs Wells Different Character Acting Example Sexy Compare Subtle Precise Handsome Hopkins

Author:Caroline Dhavernas

“I learned that you don't have to be all over the place, that you can be subtle and you can say what you say. The words that you put together can be just as hilarious as falling all over the place or doing something.”

Together Fall Subtle

Author:Mike Epps

“In Hitchcocks eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.”

Humans Eye Wanted Human Beings Acting Audience Movement Directors Cameras Moved Dramatic Subtle Hitchcock

Author:Bruce Dern

“The principle of self-reliance grows out of a fundamental doctrine of the Church, that of agency. Just as each individual is accountable for his choices and actions in spiritual matters, so also is he accountable in temporal matters. It is through our own efforts and decisions that we earn our way in this life. While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet. Ultimately, our own actions determine our blessings or lack of them. It is a direct consequence of both agency and accountability.”

“Perfume opens endless horizons. It appeals both to the senses and to the imagination. Like an enchantment, it works on an instinctive level and at the same time is extremely subtle.”

Imagination Levels Senses Endless Appeals Subtle Horizon Perfume Enchantment

Author:Nino Cerruti

“Devotion is the essence of the path, and if we have in mind nothing but the guru and feel nothing but fervent devotion, whatever occurs is perceived as his blessing. If we simply practice with this constantly present devotion, this is prayer itself. When all thoughts are imbued with devotion to the guru, there is a natural confidence that this will take care of whatever may happen. All forms are the guru, all sounds are prayer, and all gross and subtle thoughts arise as devotion. Everything is spontaneously liberated in the absolute nature, like knots untied in the sky.”

Ifs Feels Mind May Happens Care Form Sound Natural Prayer Practice Path Sky Blessing Essence Absolutes Take Care Arise Devotion Subtle Gross Guru Liberated Knots Fervent

Author:Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.”

Thinking Giving War Events Produce Intention Subtle Users Laziness Conventional Slaughter Sinister Respectability Savagery Euphemism

Author:Patrick Cockburn

“TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons, enormous lessons, lessons that may be crucial to the planet's persistence as a green and diverse place and also to the happiness of it's inhabitants-that nature teaches and TV can't.”

World May Real Culture Teach Information Planets Tvs Lessons Green Enormous Contact Persistence Subtle Mask Real World Crucial Diverse Anchors

Book:The Age of Missing Information

Source: The Age of Missing Information

“Everything I do is inspired by my early life”, Bourgeois’ looked up to her mother who was the most important person in her life for many reasons, ‘Maman’ symbolizes her mother; “The friend, because my best friend was my mother and she was deliberate, clever, patient, soothing, reasonable, dainty, subtle, indispensable, neat, and as useful as a spider.”

“Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and names, before heaven and earth, before the ten thousand things. It is the unlimited father and mother of all limited things. Therefore, to see beyond boundaries to the subtle heart of things, dispense with names, with concepts, with expectations and ambitions and differences. Tao and its many manifestations arise from the same source: subtle wonder within mysterious darkness. This is the beginning of all understanding.”

“Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.”

Bigs Depends Hero Subtle Heroism Byron

Author:D. J. Enright

“As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.”

Years Cities Foundation Complicated Planning Nonsense Subtle Dogma Rebuilding Pseudoscience City Planning Urban Renewal Bloodletting

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.”

Stills Lines Shapes Pages Subtle Manuscripts Persian Morocco

Book:In Morocco

Source: In Morocco

“There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. We can experience that stasis is illusory and that reality is continual flux and change on very subtle and also on gross levels of perception . . . When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.”

“The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.”

Way Trying Dream Materials Balance Function Psychological Subtle Psychics Equilibrium

Author:Carl Jung

“The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes. This is easier said than done because nothing is as hard to see as what's right before our eyes. We overlook what we take for granted. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle before James Watt realized that this vapor could be converted into energy.”

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.”

Heart Eye Able Understanding Answers Party Essentials Intellectual Evidence Argument Ears Finals Debate Enormous Command Ease Subtle Rejects

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“If you want to change from sex towards love, try to understand your sexuality. Watch it, watch the mechanicalness of it. See the futility, see the whole absurdity of it - it is not leading you anywhere. Become a little more refined, become a little more subtle. Look not for the body, but somebody's being. Watch, explore. Sooner or later you will find somebody who fits with you.”

Ifs Want Trying Looks Littles Whole Body Sex Watches Fit Sexuality Subtle Sooner Or Later Absurdity Refined Futility

Author:Rajneesh

“I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.”

Inspiration Difficult Wise Conditions Logic Mere Secure Buddhist Excellent Subtle Attachment Unborn Tranquil

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate, independent of words and transmitted beyond doctrine. This I have entrusted to Mahakashyapa.”

Mind Eye Form Independent Doctrine Buddhist Subtle Gates Marvelous Dharma

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Today, refuse to see yourself as a recipient of negative vibrations or as a victim of subtle or gross influence around you. Practice broadcasting the high vibrations of your inner radiance remembering all the while that the place upon which you stand is holy simply because you are standing there.”

Inspirational Inspiration Today Remember Practice Influence Holy Negative Standing Victim Refuse Subtle Gross Vibrations Radiance Standing There Broadcasting

Author:Michael Beckwith

“Individual and team discipline ultimately come down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time. Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory, but rather embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. Said in yet another way, discipline is to an athlete what scales are to a musician. Mastering the scales is what allows the musician to perform music. Mastering the skills of self discipline is what enables a person to become an accomplished elite athlete.”