Totality Quotes - Page 5

• Incarceration didnt change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.

  Roger Avary

  Way, Incarceration

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• Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor. The only stable and productive social system is one that embraces human liberty in its totality, and defends the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Opposites, Peaceful

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• Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living his metaphysical totality.

  Clyde S. Kilby

  Real, Men, Knowing

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• We don't need to invest all of our faith in every concept, in every symbol, in every opinion that forms the totality of our knowledge. Faith means to believe in something 100% without a doubt, and to doubt our own knowledge can seem like the most frightening thing that can happen to us.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Believe, Mean, Doubt

  "Wisdom Keeping Traditions of don Miguel Ruiz and don Jose". Interview with Kala Ambrose, www.exploreyourspirit.com.

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• We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique, possibilities that the eye cannot catch in their totality. We tried to establish a characteristic vision of photography.

  Piet Zwart

  Photography, Mean, Eye

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• What I'm after is the liquidity of things, how one things leads you on to the rest... The works are about concentration, intention, and paths of thought: the flow of totality in our perception, the fragmentation of the river of phenomenon.

  Gabriel Orozco

  Rivers, Perception, Flow

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• The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.

  Stella Adler

  Heart, Mean, Creating

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• We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we already live communism and anarchism in a million forms everyday.

  David Graeber

  Everyday, Communism, Form

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When yoga is understood in its totality, it is neither a form of exercise, nor is it an esoteric philosophy or religion; it is a practical and comprehensive science for realizing life's ultimate aims.

  Rod Stryker

  Philosophy, Yoga, Exercise

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• I fear that Donald Trump will continue to be followed around by the media in its totality as he continues to rail against Hillary Clinton.

  Ani DiFranco

  Media, Clinton, Trump

  Source: www.elle.com

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• God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Our Actions, Action, Milieu

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.21, Lulu Press, Inc

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• One of the problems with traditional anti-capitalist thought is that it defines capitalism as a totality, which encourages us to imagine another totality, socialism, which we can try to replace it with. This totalizing perspective has colonized the imagination of anti-capitalism and left us waiting for a revolution we can never have.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Imagination, Perspective, Waiting

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm increasingly on the side of thinkers like David Graeber who are talking back to this notion of totality and emphasizing how there are all kinds of moments in our daily lives that break - or at least could break - from the logic of profit and the modes of domination it entails. Zones of freedom, even if it's never pure.

  Ben Lerner

  Talking, Sides, Logic

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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• When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the artist's composition. The composition is the totality of the work.

  Mike Svob

  Artist, Watches, Looks

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• If you think of the product as a service, then the separate parts make no sense - the point of a product is to offer great experiences to its owner, which means that it offers a service. And that experience, that service, comprises the totality of its parts: The whole is indeed made up of all of the parts. The real value of a product consists of far more than the product's components.

  Donald A. Norman

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• Karma is not fate, for man acts with free will, creating his own destiny. The Vedas tell us, if we sow goodness, we will reap goodness; if we sow evil, we will reap evil. Karma refers to the totality of our actions and their concomitant reactions in this and previous lives, all of which determines our future.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Karma, Fate, Destiny

  Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (2003). “Dancing with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism”, p.38, Himalayan Academy Publications

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• User experience is really the whole totality. Opening the package good example. It's the total experience that matters. And that starts from when you first hear about a product experience is more based upon memory than reality. If your memory of the product is wonderful, you will excuse all sorts of incidental things.

  Donald A. Norman

  Memories, Reality, Example

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• The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

  H. G. Wells

  Mother, Father, Men

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• When I say 'I am', I do not mean a separate entity with a body as its nucleus, I mean the totality of being, the ocean of consciousness, the entire universe of all that is known. I have nothing to desire for I am complete forever

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ocean, Mean, Forever

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• I saw that all aspects of my life had been pulling me out of balance because I hadn't perceived them as part of a "whole," or the totality that was "me."

  Brenda Strong

  Balance, Saws, Aspect

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• They say the full potential of the human being is called enlightenment, which is infinite consciousness, infinite happiness, zero negativity, zero dying, complete freedom, total fulfillment, and being at one with everything. You can say it's God realization, or you can say you sit at the feet of the Lord as master of all you survey. You could say it's totality, total knowledge, and that you are that totality. This is every human being's birthright: to one day enjoy supreme enlightenment, unity. It's like the big graduation.

  David Lynch

  Zero, Feet, Negativity

  "An Ocean of Solutions: The David Lynch Interview". Interview with Chris Grosso, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration.

  Octavio Paz

  Real, Criticism, Analysis

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.31, Arcade Publishing

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• It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic, and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Business, Order, Today

  "Fictional character: Arthur Jensen". "Network", 1976.

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• I'm really bad with trolls because I have a lot of really intense friends who are not necessarily doing things so legally. If I get trolled, [my friends will send me] an email with the person's Social Security number, phone number, pictures of his family, his business, his spouse. I see this person in his totality, and I feel so bad. I shouldn't have that power.

  Margaret Cho

  Phones, Numbers, Email

  "Don't Call Them Comediennes". Elle interview, www.elle.com. June 21, 2016.

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• What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S. [National Socialism], but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement [namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity] is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.

  Martin Heidegger

  Philosophy, Greatness, Sea

  "Introduction to Metaphysics". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1953.

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