Quotes About Subject

Any director who's willing to be brave not only in terms of subject matter but also in terms of being emotional and moving you is what inspires me.

State of the Culture' is more mature content. We want to go as deep as we can on whatever the subject matter is, we're not there to joke.

Dream Theater music, there's a lot of background and context to the songs, as far as the subject matter and the albums they come from.

I think Gwen, in her lyrics, always touches on personal subject matter.

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.

I have a low-tech camera with one lens that I've shot everything in my life on. My subjects and my subject matter sometimes really are powerful, and so my job is to get it into focus.

People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance a bit.

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

In the past, I think my films that focused on African subjects struggled in the marketplace because of their subject matter.

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

In Socrates' time, an orator was accustomed to ask his audience which genre or mode of expression was preferred: myth i.e., narrative-- or logical argumentation? In the age of the book, this decision cannot be left to the audience: the choice must be made in order for the book to exist and one merely imagines (or hopes for) an audience that will have given one answer rather than the other; one also tries to listen to the answer suggested or imposed by the subject itself.

Piaget subscribed to the ordering and organizing function of the mind, but he believed that the forms and categories are not a priori but undergo development as a result of the subject's interaction with the world (OI, pp. 376–395).

Through the application of morphisms, objects are said to be enformed: "the active imposition of a form on an object by the knowing subject. In a derived sense, the same word designates…the fact that some knowledge content is subsumed under a well-defined form" (Piaget et al., 1990/1992, p.

Jackson, I. (1987). On situating Piaget's subject: A triangulation based on Kant, structuralism, and biology. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 17, 471–486.

Piaget's third way (i.e., alternative to empiricism and nativism) is that knowledge develops through the child's actions on the world. In addition, knowledge is always tied to a particular framework (see Chapter 3, this volume), a paradigm case of which are the structures that emerge as any knowing subject interacts with the world.

It is this active relationship between the subject and the objects that are charged with meanings which creates the association and not the association which creates this relationship" (OI, p. 131).

The completion of sensorimotor development leads to a Copernican revolution (Piaget, 1970/1972a, p. 21; see Smith, 1987) in the sense that, for the infant, his own action is no longer the whole of reality and instead now becomes "one object among others in a space containing them all; and actions are related together through being coordinated by a subject who begins to be aware of himself as the source of actions" (Piaget, 1970/1972a, pp.

Proctor is a moralist who says, "I've always believed that why a subject behaved as he did was a proper subject for medical study, but how he behaved was a proper basis for judging a person.

I don't think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal.

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous.

I think my most favorite subject was Lena Horne, because she embodies soul and grace and elegance and 'street'. She embodies everything. And beauty — great beauty.

I scowled defensively. "My conversations don't usually include the subject of erections." "Too bad," he said. "All the best conversations do.