Quotes About Synthesis

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I like mixing or combining hobby and pleasure with work and have-tos.

An artist's work is a synthesis of much more than the work of other creators.

A lot of my work is about is about events, but I also think a lot of my work is about fragmentation.... You have to break something down in order to have the parts synthesize.

I take the best of all the styles I like and put them together in one package.

I don't see categories; I don't see styles - l see them all gelled together. And it was gospel that definitely helped me to do that.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern. But that demands a critical stance willing to reject unflinchingly the worst of both as well.

Para Rick Deckard, un robot humanoide fugitivo, equipado con inteligencia superior a la de muchos seres humanos, que hubiera matado a su amo, que no tuviera consideración por los animales ni fuera capaz de sentir alegría empática por el éxito de otra forma de vida, ni dolor por su derrota, era la síntesis de los Asesinos.

Para Rick Deckard, un robot humaniode fugitivo, equipado con una inteligencia artificial superior a la de muchos seres humanos, que hubiera matado a su amo, que no tuviera consideración por los animales ni que fuera capaz de sentir alegría empática por el éxito de otra forma de vida, ni dolor por su derrota, era la síntesis de los Asesinos.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation.

Opposites are joined at the hip. Night and day, poisons and pleasures, innovation and destruction are usually different facets of the very same thing. [...] Opposites work together in the very opposite of the way they seem - not tearing each other to bits or threatening to annihilate each other.

A work I failed to mention earlier that gives an excellent overview of the history of evolution, including evolutionary synthesis, is Peter J. Bowler's Evolution: The History of an Idea, third edition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003

Theological analysis: The investigative side of theology that seeks to sort out and evaluate the understanding of faith implicit or explicit in any given statement or action. Theological construction: The synthetic (integrative) side of theology that seeks to fashion a fresh exposition of the meaning of faith in the Christian message.

Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk-flavored chewing gum.

No practice exists in isolation.

the association of two, or more, apparently alien elements on a plane alien to both is the most potent ignition of poetry.

I just tend toward more lush, full sounds in my productions. I don't have any preference when it comes to analogue versus digital; I use what's best for the application. Analogue synthesis is nice, but it's just one tool among many, and it has its place.

I'm really in the business of unifying these two tendencies that have been at odds in our human history for a very long time: the logical and the romantic.

We sent our user research team out to sit with customers for periods of time and get some insight into how Slack is working. We also get tens of thousands of points of contact via Twitter and our customer support ticketing system every month and can synthesize those results.

I once heard creativity described as being the ability to grasp the essence of one thing and the essence of some very different thing and smash them together to create some entirely new thing. That's what therapists do too. We take the essence of the initial snapshot and the essence of an imagined snapshot and smash them together to create an entirely new one.