Quotes About Conception

The mental pattern must always precede the material form.

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.

In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

removed the "God-given" from this conception and made "reason" the sole criterion for truth.

Non ho mai seguito valori illusori, come il successo, ma ho cercato e trovato dei punti di forza che mi hanno consentito una concezione più ampia del mondo, una sempre rinnovata capacità di gratitudine nei confronti dei miei simili e una sincera umiltà che mi assiste oggi, mentre dalla mia piccola posizione di vantaggio lungo il cammino che va verso l'alto e non finisce mai, guardo la pazienza ammirevole e il coraggio di quelli che dietro di me lottano ancora.

It seems so to me, said his wife, as if she were producing a new thought.

What is originality in art? Perhaps it is easier to define what it is not and this may be done by saying that it is never a willful rejection of what has been accepted as the necessary laws of various forms of art. Thus in reasoning originality relies not in discarding the necessary laws of thought, but in using them to express new intellectual conceptions. In poetry originality consists not in discarding the necessary laws of rhythm but in finding new rhythms within the limits of those laws.

As for the accusation that he, Roosevelt, belonged to the landlord class, "if you had any conception of the true American spirit you would know that we do not have 'classes' at all on this side of the water.

In the context of a national dialogue, perhaps the only authorization required for "putting in your little two cents worth" is the constitutional provision for free speech. Moreover, the basis for the presumptions of dissent and counter-statement is the same as for popping off: the merest hint or suspicion that outrage is being committed against one's conception of actuality.

porque sabiduría, fuerza y belleza, son la perfección de todo, y nada puede durar sin ellas." "Porque," el Rito de York dice, "es necesario que haya Sabiduría para concebir, fuerza para soportar y belleza para adornar todas las grandes e importantes empresas.

Here, then, are three sources of vague and incorrect definitions: indistinctness of the object, imperfection of the organ of conception, inadequateness of the vehicle of ideas. Any one of these must produce a certain degree of obscurity.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

You don't idea your way into a plot but plot your way into an idea.

I didn't think I could conceive.

I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

I don't believe life begins at conception.

My spiritual journey began at conception.

Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.

It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.

I'm Catholic. I believe life begins at conception, but I'm also American, and I believe in the separation of church and state. A woman's right to choose is the law of the land, and I support that.

I think, as directors, they may recognize, more than the rest of the body of filmmakers, exactly what you do as a director, because I think sometimes the conception is if the camera isn't swinging around, and it's not pyrotechnic or worthily melodramatic, then the direction is uninvolved.