Quotes with form-theories

Quotes 321 till 340 of 488.

  • Carl Honore Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Bob Beamon Sometimes when you've reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences... I'd always been interested in art. I was looking for other experiences outside of sports. Art was a form of expression I had always liked a great deal.
    Bob Beamon
    American track and field athlete (1946 - )
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  • Billy Corgan Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Robert Collier Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Billy Gibbons Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Henri-Louis Bergson Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
    Henri-Louis Bergson
    French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1927) (1859 - 1941)
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  • Napoleon Hill Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Albert Gray Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Telling everyone I wanted to go into forensic anthropology was my form of rebellion.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • James Thomson That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
    James Thomson
    Scottish poet (1700 - 1748)
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  • Charles Morgan The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.
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  • William Saroyan The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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  • Roland Barthes The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Phillips Brooks The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Sir William Temple The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Carroll Quigley The brainwashing which has been going on for 150 years has also resulted in the replacement of intellectual activities and religion by ideologies and science....I have nothing against Marx, except that his theories do not explain what happened.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Leo Tolstoy The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Lewis Mumford The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Lewis Mumford The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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