Elements Quotes - Page 5

• I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

  Maggie Smith

  Maggie, Aspect, Physicality

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• Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

  Talcott Parsons

  Special, Facts, Logical

  Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”

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• Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

  J. Paul Getty

  Change, Business, Risk

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• Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.

  Herb Ritts

  Light, Two, Shadow

  Herb Ritts, Paul Martineau, James Crump (2012). “Herb Ritts: L.A. Style”, p.3, Getty Publications

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• His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Eulogy

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 5, sc. 5, l. 68

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• Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Israel, Mosaics, Accepting

  "Democracy in the Middle East, PluralIism in Europe: Turkish View". The Turkish Weekly, October 12, 2004.

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• My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Travel, Reading, Writing

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry; but they do not rank as genuine scientific men. The genuine scientific chemist cares just as much to learn about erbium-the extreme rarity of which renders it commercially unimportant-as he does about iron. He is more eager to learn about erbium if the knowledge of it would do more to complete his conception of the Periodic Law, which expresses the mutual relations of the elements.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Science, Men, Law

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• The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

  Lucian Freud

  Erotic, Matter, Sides

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

  Franz Kafka

  Positive, Depression, World Suffering

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

  Franz Kafka

  Hype, Sensual, Deceiving

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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• Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

  Immanuel Kant

  Yield, Intuition, Way

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.61, Read Books Ltd

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• When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song

  Michael Bolton

  Song, Different, Nuance

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• Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

  Ernst Mach

  Sound, Body, Matter

  Ernst Mach (1996). “The analysis of sensations”

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• I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.

  John Fogerty

  Years, People, Brown

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• But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Thinking, Hands, Four Elements

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• The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex

  Bobby Darin

  Sex, Important, Sells

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• The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Philosophy, Taken, Battle

  Gabriel Marcel (1952). “Men against humanity”

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• I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.

  Michael Biehn

  Movie, Block, Writing

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• Woman is also the element of conflict.

  Marcello Mastroianni

  Conflict

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

  Alejandro Amenabar

  Pieces, Too Much, Sometimes

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• Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Weight, Characteristics, Certain

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• The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

  Jan Garbarek

  Jazz Improvisation, Jazz, Improvisation

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• I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually

  Tom Selleck

  Mean Girls, Character, Land

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• What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.

  Bill Laswell

  Sound, Texture

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