Subjects Quotes - Page 5

• The relationship between the student and teacher is ultimately important. In higher spirituality we don't study a subject as much as a person.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Yoga, Important

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• ...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Cat, Thinking

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.

  David Salle

  Tree, Littles, Talent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think what's happened in art criticism, or art thinking, in last 30 or 40 years is a confusion between the "what" - the subject - and the "how." Most attention goes to the "what," but it's the "how" that's the important part - how something is brought into being.

  Joe Bradley

  Art, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.

  Alice Neel

  Thinking, Paint, Theory

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• I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that you could graph for why it's not chaos and anarchy - for why it has to be order, and why you need architects and an architectural brain to create the world of the dream for the subject to enter.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Dream, Writing, Order

  "Watch ‘Inception’ In Real Time & Ten Key Quotes From Chris Nolan’s Interview With Brother Jonathan" by Oliver Lyttelton, www.indiewire.com. December 8, 2010.

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• All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Character, Issues, Important

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 24, 2009.

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• Food from the platter / Water from the rain / The subject and the matter / I'm going home again / Can't sell a leaf to a tree / Nor the wind to the atmosphere / I know where I am meant to be / And I can't be satisfied here

  Lemn Sissay

  Rain, Home, Wind

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• Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Marketing, Fields, Study

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.154, Princeton University Press

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• For those that have said I seemed dickish to some of the nuttier guests on Joe Rogan Questions Everything - guilty as charged. As the season wore on I lost my patience with some of those folks unfortunately. I think I overdosed on ridiculous/likely fake stories. I certainly learned a lot about the kind of people that invest a large portion of their life on fringe subjects - they're all white. I think there's something interesting about the subjects, (UFOS, etc) but the study of them has often been overrun by silly thinking.

  Joe Rogan

  Silly, Thinking, White

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• Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Biographies, Subordinates

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Invention of Love”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have to execute people and put them in prison if they don't practice this glorious act.

  Gore Vidal

  Heterosexuality Is, Practice, People

  "American psyche". www.independent.co.uk. October 7, 2000.

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• Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Interesting, Purpose, Study

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Whitehead's The Function of Reason”, p.9, Agora Publications, Inc.

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• The American continents, by the free and independent condition that they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonisation byany European powers? In the wars of the Europeanpowers inmattersrelating to ourselves, we have never taken any part; nor does it comport with our policy to do so.

  John Quincy Adams

  War, Taken, Independent

  1823 The Monroe Doctrine, 2 Dec.

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• You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.

  John Keats

  Artist, Rift, Might

  Letter to Shelley, August 1820, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 323; echoing Edmund Spenser 'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 2, canto 7, st. 28, l. 5: 'And with rich metal loaded every rift'

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• Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.

  Raymond Chandler

  Mind, Vitality, Dull

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.16, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look up at the sky at night and think am I alone in the universe? Well most people get over it, but I never did and though I made a career more in physics and cosmology than astrobiology I've always had a soft spot for the subject of life because it does seem so mysterious.

  Paul Davies

  Teenager, Night, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.

  David Gelernter

  Taught, Online, Certain

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect - to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject - man's nervous and psychic being.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Mean, Men

  "Degas, Manet, Morisot". Book by Paul Valéry, 1989.

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• I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Color, Pieces, Study

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• It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political stations. But the Scriptures teach a different doctrine. They direct that rulers should be men who rule in the fear of God, able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness. But if we had no divine instruction on the subject, our own interest would demand of us a strict observance of the principle of these injunctions. . . .

  Noah Webster

  Hate, Men, Views

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• I always wanted to photograph the universal subjects.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Photograph, Wanted, Universal

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• Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope. ... People are suddenly gazing at something else and pausing for a moment. And for the duration of that gaze and pause, they are like reflectors of the totality of their own knowledge and/or ignorance. That’s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities.

  Seamus Heaney

  Ignorance, People, Different

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• Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.

  Francois Rabelais

  Queens, Cheer, Sovereign

  Francois Rabelais (2006). “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Edition”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Order, Special, Important

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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