Rudolf Arnheim Quotes
When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often true of snapshots in which no pattern of salient shapes organizes the mass of vague and complex nuances.Rudolf Arnheim
Quotes to Explore
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
Hanya Yanagihara -
They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.
Ina Garten -
I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
Sam Walton -
I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.
Abigail Washburn -
In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
Nawal El Saadawi
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'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.
G. Willow Wilson -
The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.
Albert Einstein -
I am in prayer for his kids and the family.
Diana Ross -
That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.
Rachel Bloom -
An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.
Dale Carnegie -
Life is so precious. Please, please, let's love one another, live each day, reach out to each other, be kind to each other. Peace be with you. God is great.
Julia Roberts
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Father, take my life, yea, my blood if Thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it, for it is not mine to save. Have it Lord, have it all. Pour out my life as an oblation for the world. Blood is only of value as it flows before Thine altar
Jim Elliot -
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.
Abraham Lincoln -
Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street
John McCrae -
The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
Aristotle -
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
Thomas Hobbes -
There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.
Louis Sachar
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It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
Aristotle -
I won't live to see the death-with-dignity movement reach critical mass, but I call on you to carry it forward.
Brittany Maynard -
Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.
Arda Collins -
We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.
Daniel Carter Beard -
When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often true of snapshots in which no pattern of salient shapes organizes the mass of vague and complex nuances.
Rudolf Arnheim