Actuality Quotes - Page 4

• Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.

  Charles Bukowski

  Needs, Tools, Censorship

  Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Writing”, p.132, Canongate Books

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• It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive victims of a process of stereotyping that afflicts even would-be rebels and anarchists.

  Kenny Smith

  Self, Rebel, Would Be

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• It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Dream, Men, Failing

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• To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, 'Don't cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.'

  Ajahn Chah

  Buddhism, Phrases

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• A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.

  Sherley Anne Williams

  Heritage, Slavery, Continuing

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• And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

  Rowan Williams

  Wisdom, World, Way

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• Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Kind, Immediacy

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• Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.

  Jason Mraz

  Men, Two, Giving

  "Jason Mraz Splits from Fiancée Tristan Prettyman: Exclusive" by Ramin Setoodeh, www.thedailybeast.com. June 7, 2011.

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• When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the spirit of love for our fellow people, regardless of race, color, or creed, shall fill the world, making real in our lives and our deeds the actuality of human brother- and sisterhood, until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

  Helen Keller

  Brother, Real, Responsibility

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• If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.

  E. M. Forster

  Passion, Sleep, Past

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• The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.

  George Will

  Dream, Strong, Men

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• It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.

  William Ernest Henley

  Artist, Confusion, Raw Materials

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “The Works of William Ernest Henley: Views and reviews”

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• The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

  John Updike

  Self, Creative, Use

  "Writers on Themselves: Magic, Working Secrets" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. August 17, 1986.

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• An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

  John Cage

  Errors, Events, Preconceptions

  Silence 1961 45' for a Speaker

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• It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny', and it is my contention that in actuality it is these musicians who are producing that which in future years perceptive critics will deem 'corny'.

  Don Ellis

  Years, Style, Hips

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• Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of forms and spaces will appear... making itself, the image taking hold. This in turn moves me toward painting - anxious to get to the same place, with the actuality of paint and light.

  Philip Guston

  Moving, Light, Lucky Day

  Magdalena Dabrowski, Philip Guston (1988). “The drawings of Philip Guston”

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• When we use numbers we are using symbols, and it is only when we transfer them to life that they become actualities. The same is true with drawing and painting. They are to be learned, not as rules, but as actualities. Then the rules become appropriate.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Numbers, Drawing, Use

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets which are infinite.

  Bernard Bolzano

  Infinite, Possibility, Disputes

  Bernard Bolzano (2014). “Paradoxes of the Infinite (Routledge Revivals)”, p.84, Routledge

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• Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer

  Errol Flynn

  Dream, Wisdom, Men

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.410, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large. His art is dense, poetic, and image-ridden. It is always a substantial and genuine thing. At its finest it is one which goes beyond an art of mere appearances to one of mysterious actuality.

  William Walsh

  Art, White, Achievement

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• You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer to your actuality. Then you drop it like a pebble into Framework 2, forget about it as much as possible for a fortnight, and do this in a certain rhythm.

  Seth

  Want Something, Pebbles, Forget

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• It's not just that toil allows the appearance of spontaneity. It allows the actuality of spontaneity.

  Paul Kane

  Toil, Spontaneity, Appearance

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• It could be Fascist, religious or political - it's always the same model that operates in these circumstances, and it's that which is the actuality of this film. Therefore, it's not specifically an explanation of German Fascism because that would be an impossible thing to do in any case.

  Michael Haneke

  Religious, Impossible Things, Political

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different facts, same emotions.

  Andrea Barrett

  Facts, Different, Way

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• The invalidity of Darwinism and the actuality of creation are scientific facts.

  Harun Yahya

  Facts, Creation, Darwinism

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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