Susanne Langer Quotes

The power of magic has no known limits. A person knows, in a fair way, his own physical capacities, the weight of the blows he can deal, the furthest range of his arrows, the strength of his voice, the speed and endurance of his running; but the reaches of his mind are indefinite and, to his feeling, infinite.

Susanne Langer

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• And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Mind
  • Victory
  • Give

• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Free

• The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Doing

• The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Action
  • Happiness
  • Feelings

• I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was the first place that came to my mind. That's where my heart was at.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Fight

• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Magic

• A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Age

• One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Feelings

• You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into you, so you really have to learn to open your mind, open your heart and be super compassionate about other people's points of view, faith and opinions.

  

  Patricia Rae
  • People
  • Mind
  • Heart

• When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beginning
  • Magic
  • Inspired

• My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Prism

• For me, making my intent clear to the batsman before he stamps his authority is important. Playing with his mind is a way of attacking rather than setting attacking fields.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Me

• Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• The fairest garden in her looks,And in her mind the wisest books.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Mind
  • Garden

• The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next...

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Mind
  • Science

• I got magic and I got poetry in my fingertips.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Poetry
  • Magic

• 'Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect.'

  

  James Madison
  • Mind
  • Religious

• The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

  

  Anna Letitia Barbauld
  • Life
  • Great
  • Important

• The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • World
  • Believe
  • Mind

• There's a thing I really mind hearing, when someone says: "That's not my kind of film, I don't want to go and see that..." I don't believe that, I don't believe that it's possible to write off a whole genre of filmmaking - "oh I don't like subtitled films", or "I don't like black and white films", or I don't like films made before or after, a certain date" - I don't believe that.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Kind

• The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • Terror
  • Afghanistan

• There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Good
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• The power of magic has no known limits. A person knows, in a fair way, his own physical capacities, the weight of the blows he can deal, the furthest range of his arrows, the strength of his voice, the speed and endurance of his running; but the reaches of his mind are indefinite and, to his feeling, infinite.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Mind
  • Feelings
  • Magic