Quotes About Tangible

If capital is what produces a stream of income - and that is a definition no one seems to quarrel with - then it follows that software is a form of capital. It has always been difficult to measure any form of knowledge capital, but in the past the problem was not as urgent, since the ratio of difficult-to-quantify knowledge capital to more tangible capital was not as high or growing as rapidly as it is today.

The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.

The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.

Most of the blacks who took part in the riots of 1966 and 1967 apparently did not expect much in the way of tangible results. Fired up by conflicts with the police, they started disturbances that exploded suddenly, raged out of control, and then stopped before participants could develop much of a program.

Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.

We were thinking far-out history thoughts at Harvard...believing that it was a time for visions, knowing that America had run out of philosophy, that a new empirical, tangible meta-physics was needed.

Meaning … if enough people begin thinking the same thing, then the gravitational force of that thought becomes tangible … and it exerts actual force." Katherine winked. "And it can have a measurable effect in our physical world.

I want my words and actions to be the quantification of my love. To make tangible the passions in my heart for the world and the people in it.

I've had several really tangible dreams about UFOs, and they've been amazing!

We are here to become great men and women, and with that purpose in view, we must eliminate everything in our religion and philosophy that tends to make the human mind a dependent weakling. If you would serve God and be truly religious, do not kneel before God, but learn to walk with God, and do something tangible every day to increase the happiness of mankind. This is religion that is worth while, and it is such religion alone that can please the Infinite.

Sometimes Drusilla forgot she was really there, a tangible creature and not some ghost of a memory, drifting about the world, only observing.

Until there are tangible metrics for quantifying the real value of a token's utility, the gap between value and valuation will continue to defy conventional wisdom and conventional valuation methods.

My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses.

Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.

Physical and psychological spaces of an organization work in tandem to define the effectiveness of the people within it

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

Transferring my anger and pain onto paper turns it into something tangible, something that can be shredded or burned, or at the very least, sealed shut in a box. ~Call Me Tuesday

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.

Education about Yemen will come through customers' engagement with the product. And in the meantime you'll employ actual Yemeni people. And you'll do something tangible. And you'll make a living. And you won't have to ask for donations. And it won't have to be about Islam. You're not selling Islamic coffee beans. Sell Yemeni beans. Do that, and do it well, and the rest will follow.

Paper reassures me, its touch. It's what you respect.

I think sci-fi and horror are a perfect vehicle for exploring racism and injustice, the horrors of that. They are real; they are actual; they are tangible. They are also metaphorical and invisible.

Like no one else... you share that part of my mind that associates itself mostly with ideal things and places... The impression thinking about you gives me is very closely linked with that given me by a lonely hillside or a sunny afternoon... or books that have meant more to me than I can explain... This is grand, but still it isn't enough for this world... The earthly and obvious part of me longs to see and touch you and realise you as tangible.

What's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?