Surface Quotes - Page 27

Our food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your health—more important than the environment—more important than your right to know how your food is produced. But beneath the surface, a revolution is growing.

John Robbins

Important, Growing, Agribusiness

John Robbins, Ocean Robbins (2013). “Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food!”, p.13, Conari Press

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For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it. That's a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge. When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water. We call this the moment of death. That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.

Bill Viola

Ocean, Moving, Water

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Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: “There is the surface. Now think – or rather feel, intuit – what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way.’ Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy

Susan Sontag

Reality, Thinking, Fascination

Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.23, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.

Steffi Graf

Wimbledon, Grass, Tournaments

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Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

Peter Senge

Mistake, Expectations, Frustrated

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It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.

Jenny Shipley

Country, Ocean, Historical

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Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

Maurice Denis

Horse, Order, Battle

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A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up to the surface at a given moment. A period of gestation is certainly needed, what Wordsworth called ‘emotion recollected in tranquility.’ You cannot write about an experience when you are living it, suffering it. You are too busy surviving to look at it objectively. At least I can’t.

Rosamond Lehmann

Writing, Gestation Period, Suffering

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Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves. They will control the climate and the Solar System just as they control the Earth. They will travel beyond the limits of our planetary system; they will reach other Suns, and use their fresh energy instead of the energy of their dying luminary.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Ocean, Men, Years

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Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface.

Confucius

Perfect, Water, Balance

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Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.

Cesar Chavez

Inspirational, Focus, Experience

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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.

Paul Cezanne

Color, Ideas, Rainbow

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When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.

Oliver Goldsmith

Long, Curiosity, Demand

Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.5

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A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the depth, make you feel the underlying emotion, make you sense the larger world. That, too, is the power of science: to sense and convey the depth and dimensionality of nature, to glance at the surface and to divine the shape of the universe around us.

Carl Safina

Light, Curiosity, Depth

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Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.

John Zerzan

Everyday Routine, Void, Anarchy

"Elements of Refusal". Book by John Zerzan, 1988.

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The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

Gaston Bachelard

Poetic

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You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.

Rudolf Steiner

Teacher, Ideas, Important

"Curative Education" by Rudolf Steiner, lect. 2, June 26, 1924.

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Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you're called back to the surface every couple of minutes by an email, you can't ever get back down. I have a great friend who became a Twitterer and he says he hasn't written anything for a year.

Dave Eggers

Couple, Writing, Years

"Dave Eggers: From 'staggering genius' to America's conscience" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2010.

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One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.

Barbara Hepworth

Yield, Details, Tiny

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Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world.

Jack Ruby

People, Boards, World

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There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's spectacular.' Or that spectacular shot, a big crane move, or something. But it's not necessarily right for the film — you jump out, you think about the surface, and you don't stay in there with the characters and the story.

Roger Deakins

Moving, Character, Thinking

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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

Alan Kay

Wise, Typical, Cavemen

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Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North--meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others. Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

Steven Pressfield

Oil, Soul, Important

Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.14, Black Irish Books

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However, the wind only changes the picture temporarily, the substrate remains the same and sooner or later the same picture surfaces once again.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Wind, Sooner Or Later, Remains

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Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

Richard Corliss

Beauty, Artist, Essence

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