Quotes About Tangible

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.

All things manifesting in the lower worlds exist first in the intangible rings of the upper spheres, so that creation is, in truth, the process of making tangible the intangible by extending the intangible into various vibratory rates.

I am surprised at how often researchers fail to draft a title early in the development of their projects. In my opinion, the working or draft title becomes a major road sign in research—a tangible idea that the researcher can keep refocusing on and changing as the project goes on (see Glesne & Peshkin, 1992).

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.

When I set goals, they're more tangible than becoming famous. You don't build a company or a foundation for fame.

Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.

We feel secure with things we can see or touch.

the tangible benefits of prayer are mere by-products of a healthy prayer life.

that is what is tremendously missing from modern Christianity: Tangible gratitude for God's grace.

Dreams are vague and far away. Goals are tangible and achievable.

The dreams you craft at the level of your soul are very different from goals, which are tangible, measurable and set the future.

For it to be called a Sacrament, there first needs to be an outward, tangible sign or created thing by which God deals visibly with us, that we may be sure of it. It is not His will to work with us apart from outward means, solely by secret suggestions or special revelation from heaven. But the outward work and sign does not by itself avail or do anything unless it is joined by His Word, by which the sign is made effective and we are made aware of what God is doing in us by this sign.

To commit to actual things composed of wood and metal and fabric was to make real the vagueness and unreality of love.

Real Estate Investors invest in real estate primarily because they believe it is a real investment that they can control. You can see it, visit it, touch it, smell it, and show it off to friends and family. You can't do that with stock. You might be able to do it with gold and silver.

Salvation fits into a unified view of the entire world, and yet it is also gritty, localized, and contextual. It is grounded in concrete experiences of the world. It must always look, feel, and taste like something.

love the feel of a book. I love the touch and smell and sound of the pages. I love the handling. A book is a sensual thing.

Indeed, only what does not have a tangible measure can easily be exaggerated in importance. This is the basic reason why the privileged elite in every society has always consisted—and, I submit, will always consist—of members who perform unproductive services under one form or another. Whatever the title under which this elite may receive its share, this share will never be that of worker's wage—even if, as is possible, it may be called by that name.

Political leadership is about achieving tangible good results that make a difference in people's lives, not offering a message of unity, respect, and honor (though that's nice, too). It's not useful to understand world affairs in the broadest possible terms, as a struggle between good and evil.

For Leifen, a thing is beautiful if she can reach out and put her hand on it any time.

She wrapped her hands around the wooden bowel. This was real. This was stuff of life.

Feudal anarchy" is the word which democratic terrorism uses to slander the only period of tangible freedom known to us.

In the end, the problem was not grief. Grief was the first cause, perhaps, but it soon gave way to something else - something more tangible, more calculable in its effects, more violent in the damage it produced. A whole chain of forces had been set in motion, and at a certain point I began to wobble, to fly in greater and greater circles around myself, until at last I spun out of orbit.