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Quotes About Conditions

The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the results to others.
~ David Hurn
We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.
~ Gerry Adams
I have no fear of losing u, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine.
~ Anthony de Mello
I have no fear of losing you, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine
~ Anthony de Mello
Know that it's your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
~ Anthony Robbins
Possibility means freedom. The measure of freedom enters into the concept of man. That the objective possibilities exist for people not to die of hunder and that people do die of hunger, has its importance, or so one would have thought. But the existence of the objective conditions, of possibilities or of freedom is not yet enough: it is necessary to know them, and know how to use them.
~ Antonio Gramsci
Happiness is a kind of activity of the soul; whereas the remaining good things are either merely indispensable conditions of happiness, or are of the nature of auxiliary means, and useful instrumentally.
~ Aristotle
For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements. Plainly therefore in the science of Nature, (15) as in other branches of study, our first task will be to try to determine what relates to its principles.
~ Aristotle
You may be cajoled into imagining that your own special trade or your own industry will be encouraged by a protective tariff, but it stands to reason that such legislation must in the long run keep away wealth from the country, diminish the value of our imports, and lower the general conditions of life in this island.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
If they have disappeared from the rest of the world it was assuredly on account of their own stupidity, which made it impossible for them to adapt themselves to changing conditions.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
o live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill
~ Shirley Jackson
Nessun organismo vivente può mantenersi a lungo sano di mente in condizioni di assoluta realtà
~ Shirley Jackson
Among the factors that play a part in the causation of neuroses and that have created the conditions under which the forces of the mind are pitted against one another, three emerge into prominence: a biological, a phylogenetic and a purely psychological factor.
~ Sigmund Freud
pleasure or pain may be thought of in psycho-physical relationship to conditions of stability and instability
~ Sigmund Freud
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our life that we must draw our stengths to love and our reason for acting
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The offer of the gospel is to be made not to the righteous or even the repentant, but to all. There are no conditions that need to be met in order for the gospel offer to be made.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
Summer is the time when it is too hot to do the job that it was too cold to do last winter.
~ Mark Twain
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
However, "with the right intentions," she has said, "misyar can serve the noble purpose of helping divorced and widowed women financially."58 Zeinab Shahine, a professor of sociology at Egypt's Ain Shams University, agrees. According to Al-Ahram Weekly, there are certain conditions, Shahine believes, when
~ John R. Bradley
Performance (1992). Using the term 'adaptive' and 'non-adaptive' to describe high and low performing cultures, they studied over 200 firms, including Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, ICI and Nissan, and concluded that adaptive cultures, those that are flexible enough to evolve with changing market conditions, tended to perform better economically than non-adaptive cultures.
~ John R. Childress
These three conditions of human society are expressed by the rough, the split and the polished stone.
~ John Robison
Any intentional state only functions, that is, it only determines conditions of satisfaction, against a set of Background abilities, dispositions, and capacities that are not part of the intentional content and could not be included as part of the content.
~ John Rogers Searle
Intentional states function only given a set of Background capacities that do not themselves consist in intentional phenomena. Thus, for example, beliefs, desires, and rules only determine conditions of satisfaction—truth conditions for beliefs, fulfillment conditions for desires, etc.—given a set of capacities that do not themselves consist in intentional phenomena. I
~ John Rogers Searle