Multiplicity Quotes - Page 6

• Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

  Leroy Hood

  Discipline, Excellence, Doe

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• A part of what makes myths live is their multiplicity, the way different voices retell them in every generation. Homer survives because his poetry was outstanding, yes, but also because he's been passed down by so many by luminaries like Vergil and Ovid, Shakespeare, James Joyce and Margaret Atwood, but also by countless others. I wanted to do my part for these tremendous stories.

  Madeline Miller

  Voice, Different, Generations

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• One of the gravest perils which besets the ministry is a restless scattering of energies over an amazing multiplicity of interests which leaves no margin of time and of strength for receptive and absorbing communion with God.

  Bonar Law

  Prayer, Energy, Ministry

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• Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Moving, Self, House

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He

  Meister Eckhart

  Break Through, Numbers, Spirit

  Meister Eckhart (1987). “Meister Eckhart, Sermons & Treatises”, Element Books Limited

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• The interviewer always learns something new from the interviewee. It opens up your mind to new ideas and the vast multiplicity of human experience.

  Steve Cosson

  Ideas, Mind, Something New

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Less is more. Happiness is found close to the necessities of life, not in needless complexity and meaningless multiplicity of choice.

  Peter Dale Scott

  Choices, Less Is More, Found

  Peter Dale Scott (2007). “The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America”, p.13, Univ of California Press

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• By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between the original and the copy. [Photography calls] into question the whole concept of the uniqueness of the art object, the originality of the author, the coherence of the oeuvre within which it was made, and the individuality of so-called self-expression.

  Rosalind E. Krauss

  Photography, Art, Self

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• We can create the sensation of community through the accrual of actions, and that's often the clichéd way that storytelling is talked about, as someone taking a solo, and that's great for lots of reasons. But I don't really like to feel like I'm forced to listen to it in a certain way, or that there is one master reading of performance. I think what we want from performance is multiplicity, which is lots of ways in and through it, because it's for lots of people, and it was created by lots of people, often.

  Vijay Iyer

  Reading, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Many people become self-conscious when they communicate. Whether it's writing or speaking, they are consumed by anxiety. Self-consciousness is an impediment to what is required to serve an audience effectively. One's goal must be to achieve audience consciousness. To put oneself in their place, to recognize that the value of any communication arises from how it is received by them, not by what it means to the author. Rather than learning a multiplicity of rules for speaking, for example, I would suggest that a focus on serving one's audience will simplify and clarify everything.

  James M Strock

  Communication, Writing, Mean

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• We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.

  Alvin Toffler

  Dream, Vision, Needs

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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• I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.

  John Avlon

  Independent, Thinking, Choices

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• We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.

  Hermann Hesse

  Loneliness, Self, Soul

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• Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. Each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. Eyes that see thousands of colors, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap; a brain that ponders a speck of dust as easily as the entire cosmos; a heart that beats in rhythm with the heartbeat of all beings. When we are tired and feel discouraged by life's daily struggles, we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there.

  Nhat Hanh

  Laughter, Struggle, Flower

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.

  Jacques Derrida

  Men, Play, Names

  Jacques Derrida (1982). “Marges de la Philosophie”, p.248, University of Chicago Press

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• Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await the time of promise, his life-story disintegrates into a myriad of unconnected instants.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Promise, Desire

  "Lumen Fidei". Book by Pope Francis, 2013.

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• Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Essence, Joy

  Rabindranath Tagore, Sahitya Akademi (1996). “The English writings of Rabindranath Tagore”

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• ...God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses and emotions, with little or nothing of God in us, but are fully like God , with room for God and God alone. This is the 'maturity' (cf. Col. 1:28) towards which we speed.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Maturity, Cfs

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• Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen is simply the sensation and the clear understanding ... that there is behind the multiplicity of events and creatures in this universe simply one energy -- and it appears as you, and everything is it. The practice of Zen is to understand that one energy so as to "feel it in your bones.

  Alan Watts

  Cute, Simple, Practice

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