Elements Quotes - Page 39

• Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Evil, Should

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.29, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• The headline is the most important element in most advertisements. It is the telegram which decides the reader whether to read the copy.

  David Ogilvy

  Important, Headlines, Reader

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• The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other words, the problem is to transcend the givens of a narrative.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Essence, Giving, Tasks

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• All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, Men, Political

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1957). “Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr”, p.59, Westminster John Knox Press

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• It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc.  All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Old School, Men, Intuition

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• In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.

  Alvar Aalto

  Art, Men, Tasks

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• Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Four Elements, Climate

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.104, Princeton University Press

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• Meantime, when once we know from nothing still
  Nothing can be create, we shall divine
  More clearly what we seek: those elements
  From which alone all things created are,
  And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.

  Lucretius

  Tools, Divine, Accomplished

  Lucretius (2012). “On the Nature of Things”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects.

  Fritjof Capra

  Energy, Events, Patterns

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• My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I shall then believe that our government may be pure and perpetual.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Exercise, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.32

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• Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Essentials, Want, Matter

  Pope Benedict XVI, Peter Seewald (2002). “God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald”, p.14, Ignatius Press

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• A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together.

  Arnold Adoff

  Together, Form, Fine

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• In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Expression, Silence

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Linking financial element to energy consumption I think has a huge role if you think about a display instrument that could teach us about what we are using, how much it costs us, how much it is saving, and therefore change our decisions.

  Dan Ariely

  Thinking, Decision, Energy

  "A conversation with Dan Ariely, Author of Predictably Irrational". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• There's an element of realism to it. I immersed myself more in the subject as a young adult. Then I started to get involved with a lot of people that were involved in it, and they would just bring me along basically. And I learned and decided that my Christian charity, what I wanted to do to serve God's will, was to help people that were ensnared by the demonic.

  Ralph Sarchie

  Christian, People, Adults

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• I think there's an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D'Artagnan. In the very beginning, she's using him in a pretty cynical way. When she gets to know him, she sees qualities in him that she recognizes and it's almost like trying to remake the past, but of course, it doesn't work.

  Adrian Hodges

  Past, Thinking, Cynical

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• My roots are very closely tied to the DNA of the brand. Growing up in Serbia where women are unapologetically very feminine, I came to London and realised that I wanted to keep this feminine element but give it a twist and challenge ideas of classical beauty.

  Roksanda Ilincic

  Growing Up, Dna, Ideas

  "Roksanda Ilincic Sets Up Shop in London". Interview with Davina Catt, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 11, 2014.

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• I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen

  Drama, London, Tvs

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• All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. BOTH SIDES of the artist's personality must play their part.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Order, Play

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.197, Univ of California Press

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• The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same whether we're talking about story content for a movie such as 'Rain Man,' or telling a purposeful story to forge new business relationships or conclude a fruitful transaction, such as acquiring an NBA franchise.

  Peter Guber

  Rain, Struggle, Men

  "Why Peter Guber’s Book Tell to Win Is a Game Changer". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.

  Albert Ellis

  World, Neurosis, Failing

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• I would that the healing power of Christ might spread over the earth and be diffused through our society and into our homes, that it might cure men's hearts of the evil and adverse elements of greed and hate and conflict. I believe it could happen. I believe it must happen. If the lamb is to lie down with the lion, then peace must overcome conflict, healing must mend injury.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Hate, Lying, Believe

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• To say no at the right time, and then stand by it, is the first element of success. He is the wise man who, for all his life, can keep mind and soul and body clean.

  David Starr Jordan

  Wise, Men, Soul And Body

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• Almost all negative moods are missing one key element - calm. By learning calm, you learn to deal with difficult areas. Calm allows us to achieve what we want, without being overwhelmed by anxiety.

  Liz Miller

  Keys, Anxiety, Missing

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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• In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them to their elements. Understanding proceeds from the whole to its parts, not from the parts to the whole as knowledge does.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Thinking, Understanding, Doe

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