Quotes About Phase

All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept.

Crowds are only powerful for destruction. Their rule is always tantamount to a barbarian phase.

The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

humans wrestled endlessly with their own overpowering egos. Some tried suppressing selfness, seeking detachment. Others subsumed personal ambition in favor of a greater whole—family, religion, or a leader. Later they passed through a phase in which individualism was extolled as the highest virtue, teaching their young to inflate the ego beyond all natural limits or restraint.

swath of time that stretched out

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

I've had chapters in my work life that have kind of coincided with the place I am in mine. I had the best-friend phase, and the pregnant-woman phase - for a while, I was pregnant in every movie.

Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job.

Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.

The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.

Our own slice of time is only ever betwixt and between.

Get the moon to phase with you. The tide to lap at your door. Call it Rose or Aunty, but never what it is.

Everything happening around me is very random. I am enjoying the phase, as the journey is far more enjoyable than the destination.

I did go through a phase where I played videogames quite often, but I haven't in a few years.

the young Sun's energy output was probably about 70 percent of what it is today. With the Sun's initially lower luminosity, even the water that did form wouldn't have been in a liquid phase without some other explanation—a quandary known as "The Faint Sun Paradox.

I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

We are passing through an eerie phase of history in which the things that everyone really knows are treated as unheard-of doctrines, a time in which the elements of common decency are themselves attacked as indecent. Nothing quite like this has ever happened before. Although our civilization has passed through quite a few troughs of immorality, never before has vice held the high moral ground.

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.

The next phase of your marketing should enlighten them about how your products work to solve their problems.

It is a mistake to think that the national revolution is only political and economic. It is above all cultural. We stand in the first stormy phase of revolution.

We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love.

But the principal psychological achievements of this process take place in the period from about the fourth or fifth month to the thirtieth or thirty-sixth month, a period we refer to as the separation-individuation phase.

I wouldn't bother searching the small storage spaces until we got down to the looking-for-all-the-body-parts phase.