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Quotes About Extension

Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly as possible.
~ Eric Drooker
Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.
~ Herbert Read
By using the term 'thinking substance' in such sharp contrast to 'extended substance' [Descartes] was clearly implying that the various distinct forms appearing in thought do not have their existence in such an order of extension and separation (i.e., some kind of space), but rather in a different order, in which extension and separations have no fundamental significance.
~ David Bohm
It's a tradition: The Stick. Something so much an extension of you deserves a sobriquet.
~ David Foster Wallace
Specifically, Aristotle claims that no spatial extension (e.g. the intercurb interval AB) is 'actually infinite,' but that all such extensions are 'potentially infinite' in the sense of being infinitely divisible.
~ David Foster Wallace
I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.
~ Herman Cain
We must here follow the first course so as to be able to pass on later to generalisations which extend beyond the limits of Euclidean geometry.
~ Hermann Weyl
All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.
~ Lewis Thomas
I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort to such tactics really have not understood that animal rights is about the extension of moral concern to all sentient beings--humans obviously included.
~ Unknown
When it comes to setting the market values, I let that stuff take care of itself. I know my value in this league, and I know the team appreciates me. I'm going to continue to make myself an indispensable part of this roster. When you do that, when your time comes up to get a contract, you usually get a contract extension.
~ Aaron Rodgers
I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.
~ Edmund Hillary
If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.
~ Walter Hill
We shouldn't use God for our purpose alone but also be instruments of the extension of His Kingdom
~ Sunday Adelaja
For magazines seeking to extend their reach into podcasting, half the battle is finding members of staff who don't sound like the kind of people you wouldn't care to be stuck in a lift with.
~ David Hepworth
Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.
~ Liberty Hyde Bailey
Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares.
~ Rosser Reeves
Furthermore, objects at these substages are experienced as direct extension of the previous action.
~ Unknown
A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.
~ Vannevar Bush
I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.
~ Anton Yelchin
What is beauty, but an extension of modesty?
~ Boonaa Mohammed
My arms are pretty long.
~ Rajon Rondo
I have long arms.
~ Boban Marjanovic
Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.
~ Huston Smith
I've never used Sybase in my life. How would I make an intelligent decision about this versus that with a Sybase extension?
~ Rasmus Lerdorf