Visible Quotes - Page 35

• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  Victor Hugo

  Education, Business, Men

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.134

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• One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

  Victor Hugo

  Work, Eye, Thinking

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.

  William Morris Hunt

  Eggs, White, Drawing

  William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns

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• The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

  Washington Irving

  Distance, Book, Reading

  Washington Irving (1865). “Works: Complete in 27 Volumes. Tales of a traveller”, p.188

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• I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.

  Jermaine Jackson

  Islamic, Believe, Reality

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• Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Philosophy, Imagination

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, Tools, Social Transformation

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• Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

  Joyce Maynard

  Perfection, World, Illusion

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• I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street.

  James McAvoy

  Party, Thinking, Years

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• This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.

  Wentworth Miller

  Roles, Done, Proud

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• Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Eye, Soul

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• When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bill Clinton was under pressure to appoint women to visible positions. I was 31, I'd never worked in Washington. Was I ready for this large and visible job? Still he wanted the credit. So he gave me the job but diminished the job.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Jobs, White, House

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• The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Writing, Blank Mind, Feelings

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.379, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

  Novalis

  Spiritual, Literature, Invisible

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• I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

  Laurence Olivier

  Believe, Cities, Theatre

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

  Camille Paglia

  Fashion, Art, Self

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• Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Religious, Space, Diversity

  "Calming our fears" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2007.

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• If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Speaks Out, People, Choices

  "Cartoon conflicts" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2006.

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  Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from May 12, 2017

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• The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Foundation, Morality

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• A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Invisible, Priests, Realms

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• Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

  Edward Teller

  Catastrophe

  Edward Teller (1980). “The Pursuit of Simplicity”, Pepperdine Press

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• There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Way, Linux

  "Reclusive Linux founder opens up". Interview with Kristie Lu Stout, edition.cnn.com. May 19, 2006.

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• We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Believe, Play, India And Pakistan

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• Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

  Eddie Vedder

  Jobs, Real, Passion

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