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“When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people.”

People Thinking States Term Economy Effects Flow Everyday Everyday Life

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction.”

Facts Light Term Quality Taken Photography Photographer Photograph Expensive Contradiction Imagery

Author:Damien Hirst

“I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.”

Asks Stuff Term Media Ask Me

Author:Damien Hirst

“I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself.”

Way Artist Term Failure

Author:Tracey Emin

“A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the works of other painters. This appears more humiliating, but is equally true; and no man can be an artist, whatever he may suppose, upon any other terms.”

Men May Artist Term Painter Humiliating Imitator

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of compassion.”

“Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.”

People May Facts Used Term Creative Divine Anxiety Madness Paid Greek Insecurity Sensitivity Distinguished Creative People High Prices

Author:Rollo May

“I will not step down, I will not resign, ... I will work to the end of my term in office under the constitution. In the year 2000, there will be presidential elections under the constitution and I will not run in those elections.”

Years Ends Running Term Steps Office Constitution Election Presidential Presidential Election

Author:Boris Yeltsin

“Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.”

Reason Form Social Term Events Short Term Deceptive Social Science Capricious

Author:Fernand Braudel

“If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.”

Ifs Time Term Discussion Warning Alarms Workshops Wasted Time

Author:Paul Fussell

“To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying Moscow the military hegemony it sought in Western Europe and of restoring the will, cohesiveness, and security of the NATO alliance, so badly frayed during the turbulent 1970s.”

Courses President Term Security Military Europe Importance Western Credit Staying Lasting Strategic Alliances Nato Moscow Restoring Hegemony Western Europe President Reagan Cohesiveness

Author:Frank Gaffney

“What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.”

Term Ability Music Music Is Argument Quantity Convincing

Author:John Ashbery

“Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.”

Needs Trying Artist Term Secret Encouragement Ashamed Pregnancy

Book:The Sound of Paper

Source: The Sound of Paper

“It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.”

Term Shoes Fascinating Insecurity Mechanic Static Practicality

Author:Stephen Bayley

“In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom”

Long Helping Term Wealth Creation Factors Luxury Long Term Asian Tourists

Author:Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

“I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.”

Way Persons Real Term Living My Life Artifice Real Person

Author:Lady Gaga

“I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left.”

Would Be Left Term My Own Childhood Clean Wounds Best Things

Author:Patti Davis

“The reason the world is in the spot it's in is because North Korea entered into an agreement and then did not keep up their terms of the agreement. They received aid in return for promising not to develop nuclear weapons. They took the aid, they ran with the aid and then they developed a nuclear weapons anyway.”

World Reason Term Return Weapons Aids Nuclear Spots Ran Agreement Nuclear Weapons Korea North Korea

Author:Ari Fleischer

“The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.”

Has Beens Art Term Acceptance Impressionism

Book:Childe Hassam: American impressionist

Source: Childe Hassam: American impressionist

“One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.”

“The different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.”

Writing Different Term Practice Teaching Activity Aspect Criticism Separation Visuals

Author:Barbara Kruger

“Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.”

Thinking Motivation Term Money Creativity Behavior Performances Crush Diminish Short Term Unethical Intrinsic Motivation Short Term Thinking

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the Ego. It's the Ego that gets blasted, waxed, plastered.”

Term Talking Ego Drunkenness Intoxication Slang Hammered Demolition

Author:Steven Pressfield

“Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs.”

Ideas Term Poor Attention Mistake Photography Let Me Photograph Productions Excuse Excellent Immature Excellent Work

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security.”

Should Believe Long I Believe Social Term Conditions Security Accounts Workers Long Term Social Security Deficit Reduction

Author:Cliff Stearns

“While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that's left room for too many people calling themselves artists and curators who are simply not up to the term.”

People Artist Left Term Space Rooms Calling Curator

Author:Jerry Saltz

“The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit”

Fun Term Mankind Profit Features Characteristics Contradiction Flaws Loser Irrationality

Book:The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.”

Individual Term Destruction Universal Absorption

Author:C. H. Dodd

“Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.”

Left Term Friendship Drink Gold Competition Cups Finite Vessel Rivalry Parental Parental Love

Book:Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties

Source: Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties

“I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.”

Home Term Imagination Development Far Away My Imagination Away From Home

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.”

People Thinking Needs Facts Past Used Term Poverty Materials Absolutes Granted Relative Straightforward Deprivation

Author:David Cameron

“People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.”

People Long Country Term Party Common Cry Conservative Common Sense Long Term Decent Reasonable Conservative Party

Author:David Cameron

“The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.”

Want Might Artist Term Performances Best Things

Author:Laurie Anderson

“At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city.”

Different Today Law Order Term Cities Danger New York Parks Theme Manhattan Eccentricity Theme Parks

Author:Chris Noth

“Especially in quail hunting, where the hunter is so focused on the bird that it makes everything else blurry. The bottom line in terms of bird hunting is what we call shooting zones.”

Term Lines Bird Bottom Focused Shooting Zone Hunting Hunters Bottom Line Blurry Quails

Author:Steven Hall

“Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it by admiring it and regarding it as a superior way to garden.”

Way May Courses Term Garden Superiors Gardening Tricky Admiring

Author:Simon Blackburn

“Always take the long term view and train and race smart, with a bit of caution.”

Long Bits Term Views Race Smart Train Long Term Caution

Author:Bill Rodgers

“The United States has been ambiguous on the current situation in Nepal. They have not actually come out very strongly in terms of pushing the king to take measures on the detentions or abuses by the army. China continues to provide military equipment.”

“To suggest that the president should be censured because you don't agree with the legal advice he got seems to me to just -- to be out of the ballpark in terms of the way we can sensibly discuss and talk about issues like this.”

Way Should Seems President Term Issues Advice Agree Ballparks

Author:Jon Schmidt

“You've probably heard the term, 'red flag warning.' That means there are extreme conditions. Low humidity, high temperatures. The fuels are extremely dry and volatile. We classify those in East Tennessee as 'fire days' so if your fire class day is a 1, it's relatively low. A class 5 day would be an extremely high danger day. A day like Sunday would be a 4 or a 5.”

Ifs Mean Would Be Term Class Fire Heard Conditions Danger Lows Red Extremes East Dry Fuel Sunday Warning Flags Temperature Tennessee Red Flags Humidity East Tennessee

Author:Bruce Miller

“This is a unique deposit not just in terms of reserves, but also in terms of extraction techniques. Therefore there're grounds to talk about [applying] the Product Sharing Agreement.”

Term Products Unique Technique Agreement Reserves Uniqueness Deposits Extraction

Author:Viktor Khristenko

“I believe that what works for the consumer is to be able to determine what they can pay -- even if it is nothing. (Just joking.) Unfortunately, so many depend on credit for living expenses, and the lower payments helped them in the immediate term. I am OK with that. For those who want their minimum to be more, you don't have to wait on your credit issuer to increase the payment -- do it on your own. For others, at this time, I think it's a horrible idea.”

Ifs Thinking Want Believe Ideas Able I Believe Waiting Term Pay Depends Increase Determine Credit Horrible Consumers Expenses Minimum Payment

Author:Trina

“We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they have to deceive us in terms of controlling attention, exploiting the assumptions we make when we do and don't notice a change in our environment. There is an enormous amount of really detailed instruction on how to perform magic. People are always blown away by how detailed a description you'll have.”

“While it may feel natural to devote yourself to your creative work and succumb to feelings of separation and alienation, it nevertheless isn't a terrific idea in terms of your overall happiness and health.”

Feels May Ideas Feelings Term Natural Creative Health Separation Nevertheless Alienation Terrific Creative Work

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in response to being out in the world - I started to really enjoy it... I realized that everything else for me was hell.”

World Artist Enjoy Term My Own Hell Response Studios I Realized Renewal Being An Artist Reinventing

Author:Cornelia Parker

“Fiat has a lot going for it in terms of design, technology and efficiency.”

Term Technology Design Efficiency Going For It

Author:Peter Schmidt

“All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal entity and to bring to the fore yet another inadequacy.”

Doe Order Term Ideals Upset Entity Idealism Revolt Inadequacy Isms

Author:Jean Helion

“The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.”

Term Class Eternal Slavery Slave

Author:James Henry Hammond

“We live in the age of "Everything Has Rights." Now, I'm not denying that the concept of rights is valid, but I wonder whatever happened to obligations? One rarely hears the term anymore. Indeed, have you ever heard of a "human obligations movement?" The very ideal that holds a democracy together--the willingness to make personal sacrifice for the common good--is going quickly by the wayside.”

Humans Age Together Term Common Responsibility Wonder Democracy Rights Happened Heard Sacrifice Movement Concepts Ideals Obligation Willingness Common Good Personal Sacrifice

Author:John Rosemond

“No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.”

Years Has Beens Art Problem Able Lasts Term Painter Fifty Cubism

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

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