Top 1200 Material Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

We are so focused on the material aspects of life that we lose sight of everything else.

In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life

When there are no conflicts In you, between material wealth and spiritual life, you have found yourself.

Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.

Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.

The evidence from both approaches, statistical and experimental, does not appear sufficiently significant to me to warrant forsaking the pleasure of smoking. As a matter of fact, if the investigations had been pointed toward some material that I thoroughly dislike, such as parsnips, I still would not feel that evidence of the type presented constituted a reasonable excuse for eliminating the things from my diet. I will still continue to smoke, and if the tobacco companies cease manufacturing their product, I will revert to sweet fern and grape leaves.

Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They have increased the standards of living and comfort. They have eliminated infinite drudgery. They have increased leisure. But that gives more time for devilment. The work of science has eliminated much disease and suffering. It has increased the length of life. That, together with increase in productivity, has resulted in vastly increased populations. Also it increased the number of people engaged in devilment.

The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.

It's very rare that you get material that rolls off your tongue.

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am.

I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let me advise you right up front that I am not a big believer in writer's block. I think writer's block is God's way of telling you one of two things - that you failed to think your material through sufficiently before you started writing, or that you need a day or two off with your family and friends.

Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.

In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of sketching on bits of paper, playing the piano, playing synthesisers, using the computer, staring out of the window, finding things I'd forgotten about, happy accidents, failed plans, best intentions, equipment failures. It is a multidimensional process incorporating a lot of planning and intention and a lot of randomness. Ultimately I just follow the material where it wants to go a lot of the time.

I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.

I knew what I wanted to do, so I was constantly working on material once I got to KU.

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

The combination of both legs leads to social harmony and material abundance.

The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.

Compared to what some of the young comics use for material today, I'm a priest.

Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.

Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.

I want to stay proactive and keep having funny material online.

Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.

I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that.

Sometimes you make a connection with a writer or a piece of material, and there's not much to ask.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.

I would definitely welcome lighter material, but I like to be where the truth lies.

The only wealth I have to give, is not material - and if you need much more than that, I'm not available.

It's so important to work with material you can really mold and milk and create and evolve.

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

While there are so many great things in my life, you get older, and you have responsibilities. And things happen, like my dad dying - things that are tough to shake off. And there are things I'm still trying to figure out.

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Being the son of a handloom weaver, I have knowledge of cotton and some other material.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.

A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.

Knowing the identity of the leaker helps you analyze the likelihood that the material is real.

One of the great upsides about comedy is that you're dealing with really lovely, fun material.

I want the material I make to be mine; that's always the goal of the record and of the show.

Ive been making my living with this material for over 15 years.

I think there are some people in life who are not marriage material and Chris is one of them.

Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.

Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

I am lucky enough not to have to take jobs unless I love the material.

It's hard for me to fall in love with a piece of material enough to want to direct it.

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.

My knowledge is, if you will follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament, every man and woman will be put in possession of the Holy Ghost. . . . They will know things that are, that will be, and that have been. They will understand things in heaven, things on the earth, and things under the earth, things of time, and things of eternity, according to their several callings and capacities.