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“Being out on the ocean seems like a different world to being in the mountains and the backcountry, but there is also a lot of symmetry. They each have their own biorhythms from a motherly embrace to tempestuous wrath. What I love about being out in nature is that you are at the mercy of your own decision making.”

World Different Seems Decision Mountain Ocean Mercy Embrace Decision Making Wrath Different Worlds Symmetry Motherly

Author:Travis Rice

“The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.”

Facts Aspect Appearance Abstraction Symmetry Allusion

Author:Kerry James Marshall

“What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.”

Trying Seems Clear Shapes Consideration Relative Constructs Symmetry

Author:Kerry James Marshall

“Understand stakeholder symmetry: Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders.”

Groups Balance Claims Various Appropriate Competing Symmetry Stakeholder

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“We are not held accountable for how the economy ravages Congo. Governments aren't held accountable for foreign policies that they exercise there. There are no institutional structures to render justice. The press is very limited. There's very little transparency. You find a symmetry in certain basic human tendencies, and these tendencies are not always noble or beautiful. I think we have an instinct to turn away from that, to not acknowledge it, while it is something that's a part of us. There's a certain tragic and sad side to human nature that, in our quest for beauty, we ignore.”

Thinking Beautiful Justice Economy Human Nature Policy Exercise Instinct Acknowledge Tragic Foreign Policy Transparency Congo Symmetry

Author:Anjan Sundaram

“I think there was something started under my father that I appreciate that it's time to end, and I like the symmetry of me being the person who actually turns the clock back so that we can have a Prime Minister's Office and, indeed, a democracy, that actually respects what voters say and is open and transparent. Because, not only does it matter to gain people's trust, but it matters for quality public policy and governance, and that's why we're committed to open and transparent government.”

Thinking Father Quality Democracy Policy Office Appreciate Committed Clock Public Policy Symmetry

Author:Justin Trudeau

“I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.”

House Chaotic Symmetry Neatness Fastidious

Author:Kevin McCloud

“Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.”

People Want Sometimes Stories Problem Life Is Turns Focus Math Routes Symmetry Math Problems

Author:Frank Ocean

“Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.”

Giving Nature Beauty Objects Limits Weapons Proportion Melting Freeze Halt Symmetry Flux

Author:Camille Paglia

“Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.”

Ifs Doe Design Computer Communicate Intuition Invention Graphic Evoke Graphic Design Symmetry Good Design Coordinates Gestalt Graphic Design Inspiration Asymmetry

Author:Paul Rand

“The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.”

Form Law Literature Growth Lines Principles Balance Guides Efficiency Equity Symmetry

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.”

Science Universe Plans Built Structure Profound Intellect Symmetry

Author:Paul Valery

“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”

Whole Break Stronger Granted Fragments Symmetry Vases Broken Glass Strong Love Broken Pieces

Book:What the Twilight Says: Essays

Source: What the Twilight Says: Essays

“I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.”

Mean Book Creator Odd Collections Volume Shelves Symmetry Borrowers Spoilers

Author:Charles Lamb

“Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence, a calming symmetry; none of that describes this woman’s face. So perhaps I should assume I cannot do it justice with words. Suffice it to say that it would break your heart to see her; and it would mend what was broken in the same moment; and you would be twice what you’d been before.”

Should Heart Moments Would Be Beautiful Faces Justice Break Broken Assuming Notion Lovely Magazines Eloquence Evoke Symmetry Calming Break Your Heart

Author:Clive Barker

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”

Hands Motivational Eye Night Forests Burning Immortal Fearful Symmetry Burning Bright

Author:William Blake

“You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. [...] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.”

“The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.”

Beautiful Form Order Education Mathematics Math Mathematical Limitation Geometry Exhibits Symmetry Math And Science Mathematics And Science Mathematical Logic Great Math Mathematical Beauty Mathematical Equations Mathematical Models

Author:Aristotle

“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”

Expression Checks Imperfection Imperfect Vitality Exertion Symmetry Perfection And Imperfection Irregularity Being Imperfect Imperfection Is Beauty

Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“Sometimes a thing is—too much—and it has to be isolated and put away." Martin shrugged. "So what's in the boxes is—emotion. In the form of objects."-Her Fearful Symmetry”

Sometimes Form Emotion Too Much Objects Boxes Fearful Isolated Symmetry

Author:Audrey Niffenegger

“Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.”

Writing Sometimes Reality Life Is Easy Effort Novel Resonance Symmetry

Book:Moab is My Washpot

Source: Moab is My Washpot

“...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.”

Design Comfort Symmetry

Book:Great House: A Novel

Source: Great House: A Novel

“The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire harmony with our make-up. Thus the ensemble that it offers us is always complete, but restricted like ourselves. What we call the ugly, on the contrary, is a detail of a great whole which eludes us, and which is in harmony, not with man but with all creation. That is why it constantly presents itself to us in new but incomplete aspects.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

“If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the symmetry of your appearance. And your moustache. If you must have a moustache, let it be a real moustache-a thing of beauty such as mine.”

Ifs Real Sides Differences Middle Mines Hair Appearance Symmetry Moustache

Book:Make Mine Murder: Including: Appointment with Death, Peril at the End House [and] Sad Cypress

Source: Make Mine Murder: Including: Appointment with Death, Peril at the End House [and] Sad Cypress

“Don't confuse symmetry with balance.”

Balance Symmetry

Author:Tom Robbins

“There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?”

Thinking Knows Way Earth Perfect Growing Tree Roots Opposites Connected Branches Opposing Upside Down Trunks Symmetry

Book:Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“Hours later, Adam propped himself up on an elbow and stared down at Gabrielle, pondering what made beauty. He thought he was beginning to understand. It wasn't symmetry of features; it wasn't perfection. It was uniqueness. That which one person had that no other possessed. That which was only their own.”

Persons Made Hours Perfection Features Adam Possessed Uniqueness Pondering Elbows Symmetry

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village." "Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something?" "Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.”

Sometimes Whole Bigs Might Missing Arms Goodness Shame Ruins Ashamed Over It Village Nuts Taboo Symmetry Killing Yourself Asymmetry

Author:Jasper Fforde

“Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.”

Way Humans Kind Situation Stress Various Intense Hopeless Anticipation Fabulous Coping Retribution Symmetry

Book:The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs

Source: The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs

“No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.”

Source: The Stones of Venice (Complete)

“Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.”

Humans Behavior Human Behavior Unpredictable Convenient Messy Symmetry Unconcerned

Book:And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.”

Ifs Beautiful Form Order Results Deals Special Prove Degrees Errors Definitions Chiefs Mathematical Attributes Symmetry Mathematical Beauty

Author:Aristotle

“Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with quaternions, and that he thought it most interesting that a calculus which so strongly appealed to the human mind by its intrinsic beauty and symmetry should prove to be especially adapted to the study of natural phenomena. The mind of man and that of Nature's God must work in the same channels.”

“Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.”

Men May Ideas Age Science Order Perfection Wide Math Symmetry Comprehending

Book:Symmetry

Source: Symmetry

“No system of education is complete that does not harden the hands and toughen muscles, while it is also develops the intellect and enlarges the heart...only through work do we attain the true symmetry, strength, and glory of godly manhood and womanhood.”

Heart Doe Wisdom Hands Glory Intellect Muscles Womanhood Manhood Godly Glory Of God Symmetry

Author:Alexander Clark

“God has sovereignly pulled back the curtain on His glory. He has disclosed Himself on the platform of both creation and redemption that we might stand awestruck in His presence, beholding the sweet symmetry of His attributes, pondering the unfathomable depths of His greatness, baffled by the wisdom of His deeds and the limitless extent of His goodness. This is His beauty.”

Might Creation Greatness Sweet Goodness Worship Glory Depth Deeds Redemption Attributes Platforms Curtains Limitless Pondering Symmetry Unfathomable Baffled Awestruck

Author:Sam Storms

“We called the new [fourth] quark the "charmed quark" because we were pleased, and fascinated by the symmetry it brought to the subnuclear world. "Charm" also means a "a magical device to avert evil," and in 1970 it was realized that the old three quark theory ran into very serious problems. ... As if by magic the existence of the charmed quark would [solve those problems].”

Ifs World Mean Problem Science Three Evil Existence Magic Serious Theory Solutions Solve Ran Charm Devices Fascinated Fourth Symmetry Charmed Avert Quarks

Author:Sheldon Lee Glashow

“A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features.”

Looks Doe Matter Pain Beautiful Faces Silence Beauty Mystery Stress Tragedy Add Features Inward Symmetry

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.”

Art Views Military Movement Position Objects Arms Mass Army Dresses Soldier Noble Artificial Navy Banner Symmetry

Author:Lord Byron

“Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these have been fully attained, and with them a delight in quiet communion with Nature, expressing as she does the sense of beauty in orderliness.”

Doe Has Beens Beauty Struggle Design Quiet Delight Rhythm Combination Communion Elegance Utility Symmetry Life Struggle Orderliness Communion With Nature

Book:History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes

Source: History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes

“All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.”

Source: The Stones of Venice

“We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily... But although the symmetries are hidden from us, we can sense that they are latent in nature, governing everything about us. That's the most exciting idea I know: that nature is much simpler than it looks. Nothing makes me more hopeful that our generation of human beings may actually hold the key to the universe in our hands - that perhaps in our lifetimes we may be able to tell why all of what we see in this immense universe of galaxies and particles is logically inevitable.”

“Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree of symmetry was hidden from us in everyday life. The physicist's task is to find this deeper symmetry.”

Ideas Seems Science Theory Degrees Tasks Everyday Deeper Physics Hopeful Everyday Life Physicist Symmetry

Author:Steven Weinberg

“An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of a single chain into a second residue equivalent to the first is accordingly a rotation about an axis accompanied by translation along the axis. Hence the only configurations for a chain compatible with our postulate of equivalence of the residues are helical configurations.”

Firsts Elements Conversion Chains Operations Translations Acid Compatible Symmetry Axes Rotation Configuration Amino Acids

Book:Linus Pauling: Selected Scientific Papers

Source: Linus Pauling: Selected Scientific Papers

“Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction is between those substances that have a plane of symmetry and those that do not. The former belong to the mineral, the latter to the living world.”

World Life Two Form Science Fall Nature Natural Majors Former Substance Planes Characteristics Distinction Latter Categories Chemicals Artificial Minerals Symmetry Spatial

Author:Louis Pasteur

“Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually they have become the backbone of our theoretical formulation of physical laws.”

Law Science Understanding Nature Powerful Effort Theory Tools Physics Consideration Theoretical Backbone Symmetry

Author:Tsung-Dao Lee

“Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection of the mathematical reasoning involved and contrast it with the complex and far-reaching physical consequences, a deep sense of respect for the power of the symmetry laws never fails to develop.”

Source: Selected Papers of Chen Ning Yang II: With Commentaries

“The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to see all at once, but must be content to wait for the discovery of its beauty, and symmetry, little by little, as it graduallly comes to be more and more unfolded, or displayed.”

Littles Book Able Waiting Christianity Pieces Fine Discovery Symmetry Tapestry

Author:Robert Boyle

“The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.”

Play Running Four Track Miles Classic Inspirational Running Symmetry Marathon Runners Distance Runner Distance Running Running Training Training For A Marathon Track Running Running Track Track Runners

Author:John Landy

“The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.”

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