Everyday Use Quotes

• Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do.. making life flow more easily.. but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction.. they are completely different.

  Antony Gormley

  Beautiful, Art, Everyday

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• I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.

  Monica Youn

  Thinking, Everyday, Use

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Men as well as women, must strive for a balance of experience. Masculinity, defined as requiring the ability to act physically or mentally but excluding anything too emotional or nurturing, currently denies men this balance. Their ability to care is seen as inappropriate for everyday use, and a lack of desire for power or promotion are seen as signs of inadequacy.

  Eva Cox

  Leadership, Men, Emotional

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• The Convention is not only a visionary document. We are reminded daily that it is an agreement that works - and its utility can be seen in the everyday use to which I have seen it increasingly being put by country after country, in policy, in practice and in law.

  Carol Bellamy

  Country, Children, Agreement

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• My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece of lumber is a work of art, after all, and I'd like to honor that gift and pass it on for someone else to appreciate.

  Steve Miller

  Art, Simple, Appreciate

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• What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Everyday, Use, Metaphysical

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.129, John Wiley & Sons

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• When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Home, Essence, Games

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1973). “Philosophical investigations”

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