Quotes About Material

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.

I think there's a certain amount of pressure depending on how demanding the part is, depending on how great the material is. I feel a certain amount of pressure to rise to the occasion.

Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by knowledge, the digestion and assimilation of whatever in the material world the man comes in contact with.

You see this robe that I wear?" Bellchambers caressingly touched the straight-hanging garment: "At last I have found something that will not bag at the knees.

Hegel je bio taj koji je prvi primijetio da su povijest i kazalište satkani od iste materije, rekao je Sunaj. Podsjetio je da - jednako kao i kazalište i povijest dodjeljuje uloge. I kao što na kazališne daske mogu istr?ati samo oni najhrabriji, i na pozornicu povijesti izlaze samo odabrani...

La felicidad puede depender tan fácilmente de las cosas útiles como de las inútiles.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.

Note: When reading dry political theory, such as the texts you will find on the following pages, it may be useful to apply the Exclamation Point Test from time to time, to determine if the material you are reading is actually relevant to your life. To apply this test, simply go through the text replacing all the punctuation marks at the ends of the sentences with exclamation points. If the results sound absurd when read aloud, then you know you're wasting your time.

Imperialistic war is a rebellion of technology which collects, in the form of "human material," the claims to which society has denied its natural material. Instead of draining rivers, society directs a human stream into a bed of trenches; instead of dropping seeds from airplanes, it drops incendiary bombs over cities; and through gas warfare the aura is abolished in a new way.

There was never a good knife made of bad steel 

It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

Manuscripts were not easy to read, by later typographic standards, and what readers found in manuscripts they tended to commit at least somewhat to memory. Relocating material in a manuscript was not always easy.

The two directions of thinking are the outward direction toward your material equipment which gives you your resources, and the inward direction toward your mental equipment, which gives you your resourcefulness.

minimize your material-world concerns and to put more of your energy into the essence of life, which is love and service.

When you stay "in-form" (in your body and the material world), you're rewarded with information. But move beyond form (transform to spirit) and you'll receive inspiration.

It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good material if life hasn't been peachy (and not a whole lot if it has).

And jewels and words are no less and no more necessary than cotton and silence.

I hope you still think that ideas are more dangerous than material things," Quentinsaid. "That was what you were arguing at lunch.

I hope you still think that ideas are more dangerous than material thing," Quentin said. "That is what you were arguing at lunch." Anthony pondered while glancing from side to side before he answered, "Yes, I do. All material danger is limited, whereas interior danger is unlimited. It's more dangerous for you to hate than kill, isn't it?

Es importante elegir correctamente el instrumento de movilización de las masas. Este instrumento debe ser de índole moral, fundamentalmente, sin olvidar una correcta utilización del estímulo material, sobre todo de naturaleza social.

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered, — every one of the two hundred thousand probably yet to be of utility in the arts. As Bacchus of the vine, Ceres of the wheat, as Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it... every application being equivalent to a new material.

We have said that "Alchemy was the attempt to demonstrate experimentally on the material plane the validity of a certain philosophical view of the Cosmos"; now, this "philosophical view of the Cosmos" was Mysticism. Alchemy had its origin in the attempt to apply, in a certain manner, the principles of Mysticism to the things of the physical plane, and was, therefore, of a dual nature, on the one hand spiritual and religious, on the other, physical and material.