Tangible Quotes - Page 9

• The magic that works, to me, is the magic that feels completely grounded and real and tangible.

  J. J. Abrams

  Real, Magic, Feels

  4 Copy quote

• The power of monsters is, it is a way of giving almost tangible substance to fears, beliefs, things that aren't real. You can coalesce it and draw it, or describe it, and it's a monster.

  Stephen R. Bissette

  Real, Giving, Monsters

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the objects (viz., words) and on the main terms connecting them. Words, or their inscriptions, unlike points, miles, classes and the rest, are tangible objects of the size so popular in the marketplace, where men of unlike conceptual schemes communicate at their best. The strategy is one of ascending to a common part of two fundamentally disparate conceptual schemes, the better to discuss the disparate foundations. No wonder it helps in philosophy.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Party

  4 Copy quote

• My education was a huge influence. I trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute at Tisch, which is a huge foundation for young actors. They teach you their methods, and give you the sense that acting is much more tangible than most people think. I think there's a mysticism of what acting is, in the fact that it's this ungraspable, spur-of-the-moment thing that nobody can understand.

  Roberto Aguire

  Thinking, Giving, People

  "Interview: Roberto Aguire Talks Boulevard (Exclusive)". Interview with Karen Benardello, www.shockya.com. August 4, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

  Haldan Keffer Hartline

  Research, Benefits, Medical

  57 Copy quote

• Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid of reason and light and spirit that the mind could not grasp it on any sort of conscious level and if you came close the mind would reel backward, unable to take it in. It was a vision so clear and real and vital to me that in its purity it was almost abstract. This was what I could understand, this was how I lived my life, what I constructed my movement around, how I dealt with the tangible.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Real, Light, Earth Life

  10 Copy quote

• Businesses are interacting with consumers to socialize rather than learn about customer expectations to in turn, deliver tangible value, improve product experiences, and invest in long-term relationships.

  Brian Solis

  Long, Expectations, Term

  4 Copy quote

• Money is becoming increasingly plastic and digital. If there is a major disaster, let's say an asteroid strike, we'll go back to trading meats and furs. We won't need an abstraction, a dollar bill, but real tangible goods to survive.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Real, Asteroids, Digital

  Source: bobmorris.biz

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Sirens, Body, Sensuality

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Memorizing information is valuable but only if you're able to make some sense of the information and put it into a useful context. Isn't it much better if we can attach something tangible to that information?

  Kenneth C. Davis

  Information, Able, Memorizing

  15 Copy quote

• Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of tangible and material things.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Real, Ideas, Phantoms

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist”, p.69, VM eBooks

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.

  Maya Angelou

  Encouragement, Heart, Needs

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.40, Random House

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.

  Georges Braque

  Paint, Made, Should

  8 Copy quote

• What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve in painting by using color of maximum purity. In this way I satisfied my urge to destroy old conventions, to disobey in order to re-create a tangible, living, and liberated world.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Real, Order, Color

  8 Copy quote

• People often confuse "goal" and "purpose." A goal is something tangible; a purpose is a direction. A goal can be achieved; a purpose is fulfilled in each moment. We can set ad achieve many goals; a purpose remains constant for life.

  Roger Delano Hinkins

  Goal, People, Purpose

  6 Copy quote

• When a leader makes the choice to put the safety and lives of the people inside the organization first, to sacrifice their comforts and sacrifice the tangible results, so that the people remain and feel safe and feel like they belong, remarkable things happen.

  Simon Sinek

  Motivational, Sacrifice, Organization

  "11 TED Talks that will make you smarter about business" by Shana Lebowitz, www.businessinsider.com. December 17, 2016.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.

  Maya Angelou

  Believe, Machinery, Convinced

  7 Copy quote

• For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.

  Adam Braun

  Voice, Movement, Weight

  "The Importance of #IamMalala on November 10th" by Adam Braun, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weighed on their souls. We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles around us.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Religious, Art, Attitude

  23 Copy quote

• There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body. Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity.

  Timothy Leary

  Names, Skins, Technique

  "Leary calls LSD 'sacrament'". The Tech, p. 6, November 08, 1966.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Secrets of Closing the Sale, is essential reading. Ziglar tells us that selling and closing are not mysteries to be solved; instead they are as tangible as when his wife up-sold him on a new house.

  Zig Ziglar

  Reading, Wife, House

  4 Copy quote

• A man thinks he is dying for his country," said Anatole France, "but he is dying for a few industrialists." But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.

  Simone Weil

  Country, Thinking, Men

  Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If a man laments: 'My business has failed; my wife has left me; I will renounce all and enter a monastery,' to what worldly sacrifice is he referring? He did not renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!"Saints like Gandhi, on the other hand, have made not only tangible material sacrifices, but also the more difficult renunciation of selfish motive and private goal, merging their inmost being in the stream of humanity as a whole.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Fun, Selfish, Sacrifice

  Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.425, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Solitude, Enemy, Dangerous

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.21

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Lapses, Gains, Moral

  16 Copy quote