Quotes About Intangible

As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development.

La maldad existe, pero es inmaterial. Un epifenómeno de la voluntad humana.

The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.

They had felt his breath . . . Yes, the ghost was there, around them, behind them, beside them. They sensed him without seeing him. They heard him breathing - so close to them, so close!

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.

I got feelings I don't know the names for. There probly ain't any names. Probly nobody else ever had 'em. I tell you what, I wouldn't wish 'em on a snake.

I do not see emotions and feelings as the intangible and vaporous qualities that many presume them to be. Their subject matter is concrete, and they can be related to specific systems in body and brain, no less so than vision or speech.

What is love? No one knows what love is, exactly. No one can define it. No one can prove it.

Furthermore, material remains tell us little about the intangible parts of culture: about marriage and dinner recipes and how the world was categorized. (Anyone who has ever learned a second language knows that different cultures look at the world differently, from what colors and how many of them form the rainbow to who is counted as kin.)

Love is beyond human description or definition. That is to say, it can never be overemphasized, no matter how well you try to describe it or define it. In fact, there is more to it (Love) than you can imagine. -Emeasoba George

How could she explain to him what her love was like? That although it was a love stronger than death, it wasn't the kind of love one *did* anything about?

Leaders who understand the importance of the intangible elements contributing to workplace culture become sensitive to what makes their organization truly special. That is how they define core values and beliefs that are unique, simple, leader-led, repetitive, and embedded - transforming themselves from good to exceptional.

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

There was rain like a ghost you could walk through. Almost dry when it hit the ground.

Or maybe there's one thing to say, about the capitalism of the heart, the belief that the essences of life too can be seized and hoarded, that you can corner the market on confidence, stage a hostile takeover of happiness. It's based on scarcity economics, the notion or perhaps the feeling that there's not enough to go around, and the belief that these intangible phenomena exist in a fixed quantity to be scrambled for, rather than that you can only increase them by giving them away.

I see my future now not as something intangible like a dream, but like a boat meeting land after time spent at sea, a destination I will reach.

Dreams are the way we touch the unseen world

I don't think you can really define love

I don't think you can define love.

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.