Herbert Spencer Quotes

The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully responded to the state of feeling, would unconsciously use that variety in the mode of presenting his thoughts, which Art demands.

Herbert Spencer

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• The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Home
  • Day

• To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Funny

• I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Children
  • Think

• I like to be supportive and a role model.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Like
  • Model
  • Role

• I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Money
  • Business
  • Food

• The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Heart
  • Education
  • Dreams

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Change
  • Step
  • Acceptance

• Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Something
  • Will
  • Fail

• Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Man
  • Strong

• It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
  • Time
  • Strong

• My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Style
  • Touch
  • Androgyny

• And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Experience
  • Opinion
  • Information

• New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Myself
  • New York

• Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Black
  • Chinese

• We're like a really nice drink. We help people get through the day-we make life a little sunnier. I don't think we have any profound effect. If anybody has had a profound effect, it's The Beatles, and their effect is still minimal. There are things in the world way more important than music. Family is 50 times more important than music.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• In religion as in parenthood, uncritical loyalty to our ancestors may implicate us in an injustice against our descendants: imprisoning them in the errors of our ancestors.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Religion
  • Ancestors
  • Descendants

• The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Promise
  • India
  • Execution

• If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.

  

  Chris Hardwick
  • Up
  • Discipline

• Many thanks for your letter and the Gauguin woodcuts.. .One can see, incidentally, that Gauguin had Persian miniatures, Indian batik and Chinese art in his very blood. The shapes of the birds and the horse show that clearly. But although it looks very well, Gauguin can't stimulate us present-day artists much. We need a direct route from life to plastic form. And we get it by perpetually drawing everything we see.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Art
  • Drawing
  • Blood

• I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Littles
  • Depressive
  • Schizoid

• The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully responded to the state of feeling, would unconsciously use that variety in the mode of presenting his thoughts, which Art demands.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Art
  • Feelings
  • Evolve