Rudolf Arnheim Quotes

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.

Rudolf Arnheim

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• The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Together

• When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Know
  • Say
  • Just

• The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Beautiful
  • Construction
  • Spy

• Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Up
  • Moving
  • Star

• If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • You
  • Feeling
  • Pilot

• I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Teacher

• As an Indian, I would like to back my government.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Government
  • Like
  • Back

• We refuse to be treated as the doormat for the government to wipe its jackboots on.

  

  Desmond Tutu

• The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Rest
  • Present
  • Population

• I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Morning
  • Girlfriend
  • Delicious

• I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Trying
  • Game

• I put my arm around her and said, "Jas, I have found that when you are troubled, it is often better to think of others rather than yourself. I think you would feel much better if you got me some milky coffee and jammy dodgers and I told you all about me.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Feels
  • Coffee
  • Found

• Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue.

  

  Dagmar Godowsky
  • Words

• They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Real
  • Golf
  • Excellence

• Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow. No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • World
  • Heart
  • Brain

• In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists— 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella'—can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Age
  • Beautiful
  • Reality

• If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • May
  • Soul

• The Recovery Act, which helped saved the economy and prevented us going into the Great Depression, was the largest investment in green technology, the largest investment in education. We rebuilt roads and bridges.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Education
  • Technology

• An attitude of compassion does not mean looking down on someone, pitying them in their misery. Compassion is based on respect. We discuss life as equals, learn from each other and strive together to improve our lives.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Together
  • Respect

• More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...'

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • The Lord

• We realized that our purpose was not merely to build a studio that made hit films but to foster a creative culture that would continually ask questions.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Culture
  • Purpose
  • Build

• Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Together
  • Suffering

• In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Order
  • Senses
  • Instance