Depth Quotes - Page 15

• The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.

  Sam Harris

  Elude Us, Understanding, Lifetime

  Sam Harris (2014). “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• The dimensionality of 3D, the depth of field, the dynamism... it's an immersive experience. And on top of that it's great because the new glasses don't make you want to throw up and they don't give you paper cuts!

  Brendan Fraser

  Cutting, Glasses, Giving

  "Inkheart - Brendan Fraser interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include so many images and so much text - for example - but digitally it's wide open. For the most part at the moment we get less information for slightly less money - though we could be getting a lot more.

  David Byrne

  Missing, Information, Digital

  "Byrne, Baby, Byrne". Interview with Michael Archer, www.guernicamag.com. April 15, 2010.

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• I love the idea that if you build something with enough depth and texture, you can watch it again and again and see new things every time, and that's very important.

  James Bobin

  Ideas, Important, Watches

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.

  Paul Klee

  Eye, Humble, Artist

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• To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Wisest Man, Squares

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.302, CUP Archive

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• Just as the value of a house lies in its location, The value of a mind lies in its depth, The value of giving lies in the presence of a generous spirit, The value of words lies in their reliability.

  Laozi

  Lying, Generous Spirit, Giving

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• The human spirit lies open to God alone, for it is a fathomless depth.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Lying, Spirit, Humans

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• The most striking thing Snowden has revealed is the depth of what the NSA and the Five Eyes countries [Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, and the US] are doing, their hunger for all data, for total bulk dragnet surveillance where they try to collect all communications and do it all sorts of different ways. Their ethos is "collect it all."

  Laura Poitras

  Country, Communication, Eye

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There is no one who has ever created music with the combination of intelligence, intuition, depth, creativity, and humor that Jerry Garcia has. His work and life will continue to be a limitless source of inspiration for all of us.

  Bruce Hornsby

  Inspiration, Creativity, Intuition

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• In the depths all becomes law.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Law

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.42, W. W. Norton & Company

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• ...Be holy men and women! Do not forget that the fruits of the apostolate depend on the depth of the spiritual life, on the intensity of prayer, of continual formation and sincere adhesion to the directives of the Church.

  Pope John Paul II

  Spiritual, Prayer, Men

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• We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Intuition, May, Littles

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.147, Anchor

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• The depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

  Vera Farmiga

  Mean, Men, Males

  "Vera Farmiga on “Higher Ground”". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2011.

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• Fiction doesn't appeal to me because it can describe physical appearances exhaustively or because it can offer access to the inner depths of an array of human characters - neither that kind of "realism" of bodily surfaces nor of individual psychologies seems particularly realistic to me.

  Ben Lerner

  Character, Psychology, Fiction

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• To touch the surface is to stir the depths.

  Deane Juhan

  Surface

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• The skin is no more separated from the brain than the surface of a lake is separate from its depths; the two are different locations in a continuous medium...The brain is a single functional unit, from cortex to fingertips to toes. To touch the surface is to stir the depths.

  Deane Juhan

  Two, Lakes, Brain

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• It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current President....Bush goes bumbling along, grinning and spewing moronic one-liners, as though nobody understands what a colossal failure he has been....I fear to the depth of my being that John McCain is just like him.

  Jack Cafferty

  President, One Liner, Shallow

  "Current Wisdom", spectator.org. August 19, 2008.

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• When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the US economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women.

  Lael Brainard

  Leader, Economy, Program

  "Political leaders often overlook the key to economic growth: women" by Lael Brainard, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2013.

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• My attention determines the depth and quality of my experience.

  Karen Kingston

  Quality, Attention, Determine

  Karen Kingston (1997). “Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui”, Broadway

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• I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of field and making it narrow, I could create a sense of movement and reality that was in fact not there.

  David Levinthal

  Reality, Movement, Fields

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• I learnt a blend of different martial arts - not in great depth, obviously - but various moves such as kicks, blocks and punches. It was all quite fun.

  Christian Cooke

  Art, Fun, Block

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• Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide.

  Arkady Volozh

  Technology, Russia, Culture

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• Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.

  Douglas A. Blackmon

  Black, Connections, Slavery

  Douglas A. Blackmon (2012). “Slavery by Another Name: The re-enslavement of black americans from the civil war to World War Two”, p.381, Icon Books

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• Interpretations of Muslim assimilation have gravitated between two arguments: that Muslims will remain as permanent outsiders or that Muslims will blend in with little difficulty at all. Mucahit Bilici demonstrates how wanting these arguments are. Finding Mecca in America takes us into the uncharted territory of what it is actually like to be Muslim immigrants in the United States. I am especially impressed by the study's theoretical depth and empirical insights.

  Robert Wuthnow

  Two, America, United States

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