Form Quotes - Page 13

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.

God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.

But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

Reform is Chinas second revolution.

The will is transformed by experience, not information.

Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

I am God, and all other gods are my imagery. I gave birth to myself. I am millions of forms excreating; eternal; and nothing exists except through me; yet I am not them they serve me.

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still.

Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.

The key to our transformation is simply this: the better we know ourselves the better equipped we will be to make our choices wisely.

Not only is your story your truth, your story is going to be the platform and the foundation for everything that's getting ready to happen in your life.

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

When one has no form, one can be all forms.

An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.

What we get, and all we ever get, from the outside is information; how we choose to act on this information is up to us.

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

Conformity is the only real fashion crime

A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.