Gaston Bachelard Quotes

Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold.

Gaston Bachelard

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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

Victoria Pratt
- Women
- Pretty
- Action
Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

Nat Wolff
- Music
- Kids
- Game
Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

Paramahansa Yogananda
- Life
- Mind
- Trying
The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.

Naveen Jain
- Time
- Attention
- College
You have to relish the challenge of television.

Laura Linney
- You
- Challenge
- Television
Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

Kate Forsyth
- People
- Children
- Think