Quotes About Intrinsic

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.

Modern art, in particular, seems especially vulnerable to fraud. Its abstractions are sometimes difficult to understand or grasp, and a modern painting is often loved less because of its intrinsic quality - its beauty, as conventionally understood - than because of the identity of the painter, its mark of social status.

The key to success is to find things that you have a passion for and would enjoy doing, even if you weren't getting paid to do it.

I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a laugh, but it has to be in them.

Beauty is its own excuse for being.

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees

I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right.

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

as naturally as water flows deepest where the land lies lowest.

Individuals can often be better motivated by intrinsic rewards—by the satisfaction of doing a job well—than by extrinsic rewards (money).

The only love that matters is the absolute unreasonable unqualified and unearned love - the love you'd absorbed into the very pores of your being as a child, scarcely aware of your good fortune.

a gentle, permanent reality that was in him like his bones or his heart, that made him seem like an everlasting part of things.

There is nothing, from DNA to the United Nations, that does not have God at its core. Everything has a spiritual aspect. Everything is answerable to God. As

It is very likely that intrinsic variability in the functioning of the brain also affects the quality of our judgments in ways that we cannot possibly hope to control.

Birds sing, wolves howl, crickets chirp. But why? Money? Fame? Record contracts? Endorsements? What's it all for? They do it because they're alive. They do it because life is about making things.

if a friendship exists only because it benefits us personally, then perhaps it's a lesser kind of relationship. Kant would say that friends have to be ends in themselves, not means. Friendship has 'intrinsic', not mere 'instrumental' worth.

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature.

What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.

What you do not understand is that there are things that cannot be bought.

But it is not everything in life that has its ticket, so much. There are things that are not for sale.

She was a very good, kind woman. I could not have continued to live in the same house with her, but I did recognize her intrinsic worth.

As modes of being -- for all things are composites of a nature with an "act of being," actus essendi -- things add to being not by bringing to it something extrinsic but, on the contrary, by bringing out of it its intrinsic riches in some determinate way.

When one speaks of a 'human right', does one mean that this right possesses an intrinsic value, an absolute value or an instrumental value? That it is of such importance that its realisation should take precedence over all other considerations, or that it just counts among the things that are indispensable? That it gives a power or a privilege? That it permits an immunity or that it confers an immunity?

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.