Top 1200 Material Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.
I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.
What's important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It's very reflective of my ideology.
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.
I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.
A bench in the street can be a good writer because all kind of material comes onto it like a heavy rain!
My father and mother. I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.
I don't care for remakes. There's soooo much undiscovered material out there; old and new. I want to be original.
You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought coming someday.
I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.
If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking to interpret the material they have.
The energy that many people call love, is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built.
We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
We cannot continue to get caught up in having material abundance and yet be fundamentally and spiritually broke.
Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.
If the devil starts bringing up your past it's because he's running out of new material!
A lot of us got into the industry because of 'Star Wars,' and we all have this love of the original source material.
In Manhattan, I often do two or three or more shows a night, so I'm always working on new material.
In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.
At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true... that the material I work most with is emotion.
That's what I do in my stand-up. I work hard and hone the material and after a while audiences expect what I do to be good.
[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.
Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.
It's my job to really commit myself to the material and the project and be proud of what I've done, and I am in most cases.
Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.
It's a great experience as an actor to just work loads all the time. Constantly getting through material.
I feel like, as an industry, we've gotten too dependent on source material originated in other mediums.
Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill
Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
What you base your happiness around?
Material, women, and large paper?
That means you inferior, not major.
You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.
My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.
Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.
I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.
No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.
To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.
You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.
I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.
It's nice to watch great acts perform their material. But I can't say that it tweaks any desire within.
When you take smaller gambles, no one particular deal can be big enough to have a material adverse effect on the company.
Unfortunately for me, I was one of these people who took a long time to learn that the material at his feet was fine.
I like the chance to work on material. Sometimes it helps to not be going into a room cold and to know people.
I don't really generate material specifically for the Kingsway Music Library. It's just a product of the way I work.
Open mics are a great way to rework your material to see what punchlines land best.
I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in the introductory courses.
I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.
I've done so many movies that are bad, with material that's so shallow, that you instantly scratch the surface, and there's nothing underneath.
All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just for informational material.
I never had a doubt in my mind. I always knew that, with the right material, I could pop a hit.
