Quotes About Substance

Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.

Consumption seems to be our favorite high, our nationally sanctioned addiction, the all-American form of substance abuse.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

My council to Ted [Turner] is that he should watch Fox Business. He'll be elated to find how much substance there is in our news.

Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.

Visibility without Value is Vanity

But i was high, when i finally had the chance to see, everything thats pretty aint' always good for me.

So the intelligent way of working with emotions is to try to relate with their basic substance. The basic "isness" quality of the emotions, the fundamental nature of the emotions, is just energy. And if one is able to relate with the energy, then the energies have no conflict with you. They become a natural process.

A change as small as the position of a bond—the link between atoms in a molecule—can lead to enormous differences in properties of a substance and in turn influence the course of history. So this book is not about the history of chemistry; rather it is about chemistry in history.

Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on.

Several years ago, Debashish Chatterjee, a good friend and well-known author on leadership1 opened a seminar on leadership at MIT by saying, 'I've been guided in my work by the notion that older is often better. If an idea has been around for a few thousand years, it's been submitted to many tests—which is a good indicator that it might have some real merit. We're fixated on newness, which often misleads us into elevating novelty over substance.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart.

Evil, Mr. Tagomi thought. Yes, it is. Are we to assist it in gaining power, in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation? I cannot face this dilemma, Mr. Tagomi said to himself. That man should have to act in such moral ambiguity. There is no Way in this; all is muddled. All chaos of light and dark, shadow and substance.

Robert Arctor si fermò. Osservò attentamente il suo pubblico, quel branco di perbene nei loro costosi vestiti, con le loro costose cravatte e le scarpe costose, e pensò: La Sostanza M non potrebbe mai distruggere i loro cervelli, non ne hanno nemmeno un po'.

D is for Substance D. D is dumbness, and despair, desertion-desertion of you from your friends, your friends from you, everyone from everyone. Isolation and loneliness... and hating and suspecting each other, D is finally death. Slow death from the head down. Well... that's it.

You see, it functions this way: Substance D, in fact all addictive dope, but Substance D most of all, interacts with the catecholamines in such a fashion that involvement is locked in place at a subcellular level.

The drug calmed his soul, but did not touch it down where the blackness had reached.

Because what's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?

Don't look at the package. Look at what's inside.