Used Quotes - Page 24

The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak.

When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.

Reality manifests itself as constant and objective - independent of us, but as changeable in space and time. Consequently, its reflection in us contains both properties. Mixed up in our mind, these properties are confused and we do not have a proper image of reality.

The more angles I see, the more confused I get.

Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that.

Changes happen when we go against everything we're used to doing.

We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.

The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

We get used to things, and we like reading the way we're used to reading.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

[T]he more the public is confused, the easier it falls prey to doctrines of pseudo-science which may at some future date recieve the backing of politically powerful groups [...]a renaissance of German quasi-science paralleled the rise of Hitler.

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

I don't know if we'll ever get used to the attention from the fans.

I've never been more confused in my life, but at the same time I've never been more satisfied with what we've done.

We used to say "Ah Hell, we're young" But now we see that life is sad And so is love.

The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.

They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.

What's holding me up is I'm confused about the nature of the music. Because the modern music doesn't reach me. I mean to say the sound of the modern electric production. A lot of sequencers... synths. That's what people are buying. Because that doesn't reach me, it throws me back to like 1948, but I don't want to be there. Back there, I'm talking about blues records... The roots of rock'n'roll is rhythm and blues and that's like really where I'm at, where I was always at.

Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

I can't really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible.

....remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be.

A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.

Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.