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“The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.”

Process Happenings Surface Faster Southern

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.”

Important Different Results Common Effects Expression Elements Structure Series Size Surface Corresponding Atomic Structure

Author:Johannes Stark

“When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.”

People Thinking Looks Perspective Blind Surface

Author:Beah Richards

“There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order.”

Order Destiny Buddhism Balance Higher Surface Scratches Totality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.”

Has Beens Turns Successful Clean Surface Remembered Businessman Twists Beneath The Surface Twists And Turns

Author:Ratan Tata

“As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.”

Trying Different Enough Character Facts Process Subjects Source Surface Novelists Layers Questioning Reporters Observing Beneath The Surface

Author:Amy Waldman

“The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes.”

Inspirational Stills Buddhism Personality Surface Multitudes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again.”

Self Play Existence Wave Come Up Surface Disappear Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.”

Source: The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

“Unruly beings are as unlimited as space They cannot possibly all be overcome, But if I overcome thoughts of anger alone This will be equivalent to vanquishing all foes. Where would I possibly find enough leather With which to cover the surface of the earth? But (wearing) leather just on the soles of my shoes Is equivalent to covering the earth with it. Likewise it is not possible for me To restrain the external course of things; But should I restrain this mind of mine What would be the need to restrain all else?”

Ifs Needs Should Mind Enough Would Be Earth Courses Space Mines Overcoming Shoes Surface Buddhist Should I Unlimited Foe Covering Leather Unruly

Author:Shantideva

“Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake!”

Dream Dancing Surface Awake Lakes Autumn Autumn Leaves

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.”

World Earth Christianity Century Planets India Population China Surface Twentieth Century Fractions Persia

Author:Kenneth Scott Latourette

“It hadn't really percolated through my brain that I was going to see real, live TV from the surface of the Moon, and boy, oh, boy, had that Saturn V launch been exciting! And then, there it was - late at night, sitting up, watching, and there was Neil Armstrong actually standing on the surface of the Moon.”

Real Night Brain Boys Tvs Moon Late Sitting Standing Exciting Surface Armstrong Saturn Sitting Up Live Tv

Author:David Weber

“I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.”

Thinking Humans Use Age Building Materials Capable Edges Surface Convinced Human Life Dull Scratches Richness Polished Absorbing

Book:Peter Zumthor

Source: Peter Zumthor

“The truth is even though we sort of feel like we have equal rights in America, right under the surface we have huge issues at play that really do affect women. It's time for all the women in America and all the women that love women and all the gay people and the people of color that we've all fought for to fight for us now.”

People Men Feels Play America Fighting Issues Rights Color He Man Huge Truth Is Gay Equal Surface Equal Rights Gay People Rights In America

Author:Patricia Arquette

“The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.”

Heart May Goodness And Love Bases Infinite Down And Wave Surface Core Deep Down

Book:Swami Vivekananda on Himself

Source: Swami Vivekananda on Himself

“Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.”

Humans Use Hands Language Ability Hot Instinct Surface

Author:Steven Pinker

“Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the reeds and a stone lantern and the brightest of the evening's stars floating on the gloaming mirror of the pond. Then the breeze came again to crack the water's surface, and the picture was flooded.”

Light Stars Water Stones Mirrors Edges Surface Evening Intimate Cracks Floating Breeze Ponds Reeds Vistas Lanterns Terrace Gloaming

Book:The Commoner

Source: The Commoner

“On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.”

Source: Stillness Speaks

“Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.”

Way Earth Turns Black Surface Poetry Is

Author:Osip Mandelstam

“Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the other half is a lot darker, sadder and more pensive. It's the dark side that feeds the outrageousness and allows it to surface. I think that's true for anyone with comic flair.”

Thinking Wells Sides Dark Half Laughing Surface Comic Bucks Dark Side Other Half Flair Pensive Half Of Me

Author:Faith Prince

“There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.”

World Sides Surface Another World

Author:Bill Viola

“The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.”

Facts Climate Surface Fuel Carbon Fossils Fossil Fuel Burning Fossil Fuels

Author:James Hansen

“Murana is the name of the mask I have designed for Venini: a volume to wear for filtering the reality through the glass of its surfaces, a face without sexual or racial connotations able to represent every kind of humanity, a soul for an object that could be casually perceived as a vase.”

Kind Soul Reality Able Faces Humanity Names Objects Glasses Surface Mask Volume Connotation Vases

Author:Fabio Novembre

“I have to exfoliate my lips as they're quite a large surface area and sometimes when I wear lipstick, it goes all cakey. So I mix brown sugar with lip balm and just scrub it onto them.”

Sometimes Areas Lips Surface Brown Sugar Lipstick Brown Sugar

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.”

Mind Humans Two Literature Perfect Creativity Information Creation Fool Personality Conscious Function Deeper Surface Human Mind Two Personalities

Author:E. M. Forster

“Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.”

Mind Natural Clear Meditation Imagine Sky Empty Calm Clouds Surface Disappear Lakes Stillness Imagine That Ripple

Author:Kathleen McDonald

“Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.”

Hands Felt Destiny Danger Surface Our Time

Book:the Revolt of the Masses

Source: the Revolt of the Masses

“In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.”

Years Wells Ideas Enough Time Results Pay Five Greater Feet Source Involved Thousand Resources Years Ago Investment Deeper Surface Oil Operations More Time Texas Natural Resources

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.”

“There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.”

Knows Said Seems Science Grows Knowledge Limits Research Surface Contact Spheres

Book:A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion

Source: A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion

“I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees.”

Children Said Play Water White Tree Childhood Fields Clouds Surface Golden Giants Sand Dragons Customs Shore Warning Yellow Floats Dip Daisies Odor Creeks Dandelions Thistles White Clouds

Author:Williston Fish

“But there'll be plenty of room on Earth then because right now, what is it?-Only one-fifth of the Earth's surface is land, right? Whereas then there will be no more sea, it'll all be land, seas will be gone. The seas are the World's great septic tanks, its great cesspools, where all the waste of the World drains off into the sea.”

World Earth Rooms Gone Sea Land Right Now Waste Surface Plenty Heavenly Fifth Tanks Drains

Author:David Berg

“Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As you visualize yourself going deeper and deeper into the depths of the ocean, feel that a profound peace is entering you.”

Feels Imagine Ocean Silent Profound Depth Calm Deeper Surface Imagine That Entering Serene Visualization Beneath The Surface Below The Surface

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is always more in one of Ramanujan's formulae than meets the eye, as anyone who sets to work to verify those which look the easiest will soon discover. In some the interest lies very deep, in others comparatively near the surface; but there is not one which is not curious and entertaining.”

Looks Eye Science Lying Interest Surface Curious Entertaining Very Deep Verify Ramanujan

Author:G. H. Hardy

“We are altering the most basic forces of the planet's surface - the content of the sunlight, the temperature and aridity - and that brings out the most powerful questions about who is in charge. If you wanted to give a name to this theological problem, I think you could say that we are engaged in decreation.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Problem Wanted Names Force Powerful Planets Environmental Surface Engaged Most Powerful Sunlight Temperature Theological

Author:Bill McKibben

“As I'm sure you know by now, most people aren't really very happy. Beyond their surface appearances, the smiles they wear for the rest of the world, most people are soul-sick.”

People Knows World Soul Suffering Sick Appearance Surface Very Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I start with fear. It comes in so many forms. When I write, some of the fear goes away. So I write into the fear, and even more dissipates. I want to be scared while writing. I want to bring it to the surface so I can banish it.”

Want Writing I Can Form Scared Surface

Author:Mat Johnson

“Whatever the tiny bubbles sitting beautifully on the surface of the absolutely delicious-looking skin around his forehead and neck were, they were doing a lot for his overall appearance...and for my heart rate.”

Heart My Heart Sitting Skins Rate Appearance Surface Tiny Crush Necks Bubbles Delicious Foreheads Heart Rate

Author:LIZ

“If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.”

Ifs Men Would Be Artist Tree He Man Flower Kings Photography Paint Photographer Surface

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.”

Should Breaths Paint Glasses Surface Application Thick

Book:Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice

Source: Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice

“God was someone I wound up turning over and over in my mind each night... Was He punishing me with this meal or was He rewarding me? Did He actively watch me or take me for granted like a fish you don't notice until it's floating on the surface of the tank?”

Mind God Night Watches Fishes Surface Wounds Granted Meals Take Me Floating Tanks Watch Me

Book:Naked

Source: Naked

“Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If I were once to settle down and be satisfied with the surface of life, with its divisions and its cliches, it would be time to call in the undertaker... So, then, this dissatisfaction which sometimes used to worry me and has certainly, I know, worried others, has helped me in fact to move freely and even gaily with the stream of life.”

Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?”

Mind Together Artist Energy Lines Effects Color Painting Depth Details Surface Arise Planes Intensity Serenity Volume Composition Spectators Calmness Repose Being Together

Author:Eli Siegel

“During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.”

Wells Social Stage Remains Surface Accommodations

Book:The Construction of Reality in the Child

Source: The Construction of Reality in the Child

“Golden is a surface colour.”

Surface Golden Colour

Book:Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben

Source: Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben

“The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.”

Should Artist Expression Strive Surface Storm Clouds

Author:Albert Pinkham Ryder

“An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations. So that light does not exist for the painter.”

Doe Light Half Sight Surface Impression Painter Tone Colour Sensations Organs

Author:Paul Cezanne

“The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.”

People Facts Creativity Creative Creation Intelligent Surface Visible Genesis

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.”

Law Subjects Objects Color Surface Principal

Author:Pierre Bonnard

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