"I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations."

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Source : Source: observer.com

Domenico Gnoli

#Atmosphere Quotes #Painting Quotes #Metaphysical Quotes

“Power to the people' can only be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is dissolved into the people. Each individual can then take control of his daily life. If 'Power to the people' means nothing more than power to the 'leaders' of the people, then the people remain an undifferentiated, manipulatable mass, as powerless after the revolution as they were before. In the last analysis, the people can never have power until they disappear as a 'people.”
“By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.”

Source : Robert B. Cialdini (1988). “Influence: science and practice”, Pearson Scott Foresman
“The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?”
“America will never move forward if you decide to leave a nation of people behind.”
“I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.”

Source : "Sir Stuart Rose on the changing role of business leaders" by Stuart Rose, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.
“What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.”
“The words secret and sacred are siblings.”
“...the possibility of circular reasoning arises-that is, using the temperature record to derive a key input to climate models that are then tested against the temperature record.”

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