Devices Quotes - Page 34

• It is a device of mine never to grudge trouble in the pursuit of what seems to me really good and never to grudge payment for it afterwards.

  Georgiana Burne-Jones

  Trouble, Grudge, Pursuit

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• The importance of the development of the emotional body is hardly recognized today. We are pretty much left to our own devices to come to full adulthood, whether man or woman. Our elders may have become so denatured themselves from a lack of such nurturance that there is no longer a collective knowledge of how to guide the awakening emotional vitality and authenticity of our young people, our children. Mindfulness may contribute to a reawakening of this ancient wisdom in ourselves and in others.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Children, Men, Emotional

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• The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has any right to interfere. The practical part consists in our doing good to each other. But since religion has been made into a trade, the practical part has been made to consist of ceremonies performed by men called priests ... By devices of this kind true religion has been banished, and such means have been found out to extract money, even from the pockets of the poor, instead of contributing to their relief.

  Thomas Paine

  Party, Mean, Men

  Thomas Paine (1859). “The Theological Works ...: The Most Complete Ed. Ever Pub”, p.204

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• It is not a sign of communal well-being when men turn to their government to execute all their business for them, but rather a sign of decay, as in the United States today. The state, indeed, is but one of the devices that a really healthy community sets up to manage its affairs.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Community, Healthy

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• [G]overnment can, instead of extending freedom, restrict freedom. And note ... that the 'can' quickly becomes 'will' the moment the holders of government power are left to their own devices. This is because of the corrupting influence of power, the natural tendency of men who possess some power to take unto themselves more power. The tendency leads eventually to the acquisition of all power - whether in the hands of one or many makes little difference to the freedom of those left on the outside.

  Barry Goldwater

  Men, Hands, Differences

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• It does say something about a society when those who sue physicians and hospitals make as much or more money than those who heal disease. It says something about a society when it glorifies and rewards those who litigate while it demonizes and punishes those who produce the drugs and devices that keep it citizens alive and well.

  Dennis Prager

  Drug, Physicians, Doe

  "A Society that Venerates Lawyers More than Doctors". jewishworldreview.com. November 3, 2009.

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• There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

  William Graham Sumner

  Virtue, Economy, Industry

  William Graham Sumner (2007). “The Forgotten Man and Other Essays”, p.468, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

  Eric Braeden

  Children, Kids, Home

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . .

  Napoleon Hill

  Strong, Clever, Struggle

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• Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs.
  
  Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.

  Thomas Sowell

  Children, School, Mean

  "Dependency and Votes" by Thomas Sowell, www.nationalreview.com. May 24, 2011.

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• What I think is great about Pippin, specifically, and I wouldn't make this generalization about all musicals, is that it is about how we tell stories and the way stories are very subjective. How we tell some things and leave other things out in the way The Princess Bride is or The Wizard of Oz is, which both have a framing device.

  James Ponsoldt

  Princess, Thinking, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or who I was - which really had very little to do with what I was trying to convey.

  Ariel Pink

  Who I Am, Trying, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All human stories are interesting. You don't put a kid in a show because you need a device. They have a story, too.

  Matthew Weiner

  Kids, Interesting, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.

  Lech Walesa

  Organization, Police, Listening

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• I do not rush into constructive work. When I get an idea, I start right away to build it up in my mind. I change the structure, I make improvements, I experiment, I run the device in my mind. It is absolutely the same to me whether I operate my turbine in thought or test it actually in my shop. It makes no difference, the results are the same. In this way, you see, I can rapidly develop and perfect an invention, without touching anything.

  Nikola Tesla

  Running, Ideas, Differences

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• We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices, but we should rely entirely on God.

  Saint Basil

  Thinking, Achieve, Should

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.180, CUA Press

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• The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget.

  Merrill McPeak

  Military, War, Two

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• There are many things you can point to as proof that the human is not smart. But my personal favorite would have to be that we needed to invent the helmet. What was happening, apparently, was that we were involved in a lot of activities that were cracking our heads. We chose not to avoid doing those activities but, instead, to come up with some sort of device to help us enjoy our head-cracking lifestyles.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Smart, Helping, Lifestyle

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• What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you use twice.

  George Polya

  Math, Differences, Use

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• The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Country, Gun, Ak 47

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• I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird.

  Henry Rollins

  Distance, Australia, Land

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• Each day should be devoted to miracles. The purpose of time is to enable you to
  learn how to use time constructively.
  It is thus a teaching device and a means to an end.
  Time will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.

  Kenneth Wapnick

  Teaching, Mean, Miracle

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• Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device.

  Dave Barry

  Believe, Effort, Stones

  Dave Barry (1997). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, Ballantine Books

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• UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

  Dave Barry

  Squares, Feet, Vacuums

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.21, Ballantine Books

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• The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literature is totally lacking in any working method to enable it to isolate a single vastly enlarged detail in which one face comes forward to underline a state of mind or stress the importance of a single detail in comparison with the rest. As a narrative device, the ability to vary the distance between the camera and the object may be a small thing indeed, but it makes for a notable difference between cinema and oral or written narrative, in which the distance between language and image is always the same.

  Italo Calvino

  Distance, Stress, Differences

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