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Quotes About Transcending

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
~ Ibrahim Babangida
The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'
~ H. P. Lovecraft
The party never stopped at Mick's place. He categorized three phases of a good drug binge: ascending, transcending, disintegration.
~ Rob Sheffield
I strive to express the spiritual nature of the Universe. Painting for me is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
~ Richard Pousette-Dart
Transcending divisiveness is one of the dreams of centrists, as if disagreement were a bad habit rather than fundamental to politics.
~ Doug Henwood
Just as the self of the human being is the centerpoint of the plurality of manifestations of his life of soul, so is the ONE God, transcending the self, the centerpoint of the world.
~ Valentin Tomberg
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
~ Richard Pousette-Dart
Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.
~ Thomas Binney
I think it's cool to read that Draymond Green is transcending the NBA. I also think it's cool to read that Draymond Green is terrible.
~ Draymond Green
Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.
~ Max Bill
Effectively transcending and conquering the legacies of enchainment, impoverishment and racial denigration continue to elude us. Residual elements of the plantation-based past continue to shape our societies and determine their trajectories.
~ Hilary Beckles
If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be no empirical knowledge that is not already caught and limited by the a priori structure of cognition.
~ C.G. Jung
Emotions have a way of transcending geographies and cultures and hence I don't think that an Indian woman is any different from a Turkish woman.
~ Rajesh Khattar
usually without giving the matter too much thought, we see ourselves as part of a civic community transcending generations.
~ Tony Judt
I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.
~ Dwayne Johnson
Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.
~ Theodor Herzl
humor is godless and entirely human since humor runs counter to the sublime: instead of transcending, you are made acutely aware of the skin in which you exist.
~ Cathy Park Hong
God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera."
~ Thomas Aquinas
Companies are transcending power now. We are becoming the eminent vehicles for change and influence, and capital structures that matter. If companies shut down, the stock market would collapse.
~ Chamath Palihapitiya
One of the accounts of her execution dismissed her as "transcending the skills of the most accomplished actress.
~ John Guy
Language is a surpassing, operated by the subject on significations he has laid down, stimulated by the use made of words around him. Language is an act of transcending. Thus, we cannot consider it to simply be a container of thought; we must see in it an instrument of conquest of self through contact with others.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.
~ Max Bill
That he produced the quintessential Bauhaus object is evidence that the ideals of the school were as they purported to be—capable of transcending all that was European, going beyond what was unique to a single culture, and spreading across the map of the entire world.
~ Nicholas Fox Weber