Form Quotes - Page 36

You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.

I think that part of the problem that arose with that legislation, is that there probably wasn't sufficient information - probably there was misinformation. I am not sure that they have looked at the legislation.

I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform.

Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.

Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.

Consumers will purchase high quality products even if they are expensive, or in other words, even if there are slightly reasonable discount offers, consumers will not purchase products unless they truly understand and are satisfied with the quality. Also, product appeal must be properly communicated to consumers, but advertisements that are pushed on consumers are gradually losing their effect, and we have to take the approach that encourages consumers to retrieve information at their own will.

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

"Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum... In a world of hyperabundant content, point of view will become the scarcest of resources...

I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn't like them but they'll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format.

That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.

When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

Ontological questions are generally beside the point, hardly more than a form of harassment.

The Jewish conception of the Jews as the Chosen People who must eventually rule the world forms indeed the basis of Rabbinical Judaism... The Jewish religion now takes its stand on the Talmud rather than on the Bible.

Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.

I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.

Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.

Fame is a form of misunderstanding.

To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

Boundless love always manages somehow to sparkle through your limited form.

I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.