Tangible famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.
-- Ananda Coomaraswamy -
Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It’s not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.
-- Annie Lobert -
Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
-- Bayard Taylor -
Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
-- Billy Joel -
I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.
-- Bob Ehrlich -
Businesses are interacting with consumers to socialize rather than learn about customer expectations to in turn, deliver tangible value, improve product experiences, and invest in long-term relationships,
-- Brian Solis -
The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.
-- Bruce Lee -
Maybe its time we get a toolbox that doesnt just count whats easily counted, the tangible in life, but actually counts what we most value, the things that are intangible.
-- Chip Conley -
If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results.
-- Cindy Gallop -
You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was like. Words so real they were almost tangible. There are conversations you remember, for certain. But more than that, there is the sensation of conversation. You will remember that, even when the precise words begin to blur.
-- David Levithan -
It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.
-- Dirk Benedict -
Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.
-- Donna Summer -
First in point of time and interest comes the mortgage debt, i.e. the claim for the return of money lent on the security of some tangible object. Such claims are among the earliest fruits of a commercial civilization, and are nearly always affected the same way, viz. by the deposit or pledge of the security with the creditor, to be redeemed or returned on the payment of the debt.
-- Edward Jenks -
A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.
-- Edward R. Murrow -
When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes.
-- Eliot Spitzer -
To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!
-- Emily Mortimer -
It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.
-- Georges Braque -
June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible.
-- Gladys Taber -
Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real.
-- Goparaju Ramachandra Rao -
Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
-- Haldan Keffer Hartline -
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
-- Hosea Ballou -
I've always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I'm tangible and they can talk to me and they know me.
-- Hulk Hogan -
The magic that works, to me, is the magic that feels completely grounded and real and tangible.
-- J. J. Abrams -
I learned that surrounding myself with people who are able to help me is like being surrounded by tangible godliness.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith -
Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith -
Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
-- James A. Garfield -
Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God.
-- Jerry Bridges -
More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power.
-- Jimmy Hoffa -
Wordless is not the same of expressionless. All phenomenon of the universe, audible and inaudible, tangible and intangible, sentient and insentient, are the clear and ceaseless expression of the buddha nature.
-- John Daido Loori -
Your inner-most dominant thoughts become your outer-most tangible reality.
-- John Frederick Demartini -
When I write, I make my memories tangible, and in this way I can get rid of them.
-- Jorge Semprun -
Memorizing information is valuable but only if you're able to make some sense of the information and put it into a useful context. Isn't it much better if we can attach something tangible to that information?
-- Kenneth C. Davis -
Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
I have been taking some classes in woodworking. It's really helpful just looking at a problem, and having a very tangible way in constructing it.
-- Luke Kirby -
by getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. .. we would be in possession of the only tangible relationship tot the deity in things.
-- Marsden Hartley -
Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things...
-- Maya Angelou -
It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.
-- Michael Bergin -
We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.
-- Orhan Pamuk -
I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.
-- Paul Allen -
Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.
-- Paul Bowles -
To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.
-- Paulo Freire -
One cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life. Those who listen to us and observe us must be able to see in our actions what they hear from our lips, and so give glory to God!
-- Pope Francis -
Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life.
-- Pope Francis -
Our thought is the unseen magnet, ever attracting its correspondence in things seen and tangible.
-- Prentice Mulford -
Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.
-- PZ Myers -
Faith wouldn't be faith without having to trust what is unseen. That's difficult sometimes, and it's almost easier to put our trust in what is tangible. But God wants us to put one foot in front of the other and just step out on faith,
-- Rebecca St. James -
What is great about entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs create the tangible from the intangible.
-- Robert Herjavec -
My disinterest in your bullshit is so tangible you could make bricks out of it
-- Scott Lynch -
What is magical and mystifying to me about style is not that by seeing we can believe. It is that eventually, we can believe, because we can see we can embrace change the more we can make it tangible.
-- Stacy London -
The costs of poor quality are tangible; they will cost you customers and money, and ultimately affect the success of your business.
-- Subir Chowdhury -
As he stared back, he altered...as if a shield slid away fro his eyes, revealing a scorching force of will that sucked the air from my lungs. The intense magnetism he exuded grew in strength, becoming a near tangible impression of vibrant and unrelenting power.
-- Sylvia Day -
However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment.
-- Tim Holden -
Being asked to describe what 'post-racial' means is a bit like being asked to describe a leprechaun, cold fusion or unicorns: we know what is meant, but, if we are willing to be honest, we also know that none of the four describe something real, something tangible, something true.
-- Tim Wise -
The compass represents spirituality, no end and no beginning....the ruler represents 'tangible evidence' ... a measurable event... both coming together shall represent a Human Being...the intersection of life and consciousness...
-- Tom DeLonge -
I don't see that there is a credible threat for American action - the rhetoric of the U.S. President is too vague, very amorphous. I don't see that Obama's words will be translated into more tangible intentions and therefore this is probably why the Iranians don't take it seriously. They speak out against it and they dismiss it.
-- Tzachi Hanegbi -
We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles that surround us.
-- Umberto Boccioni -
I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost.
-- Vladimir Nabokov -
I think in most companies you're surrounded by the past. You may have a Web site or archives or a lobby that sort of shows off your work of the past. The future is not as tangible.
-- Harry West -
I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.
-- Hawa Abdi -
Anytime you start getting a real tangible relationship with something that's been blown up to a legendary status, you just realize that every part of it is just people getting ahead.
-- Seth Avett -
An idea becomes great when it becomes tangible.
-- Bill Capodagli -
It becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete.
-- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon -
I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the reading experience. So I strive to end my own poems that way as well.
-- Allison Joseph -
It's in our nature. If you are a plumber, there is an objective way to establish whether you put together a great piping system or not. Art is a bit more slippery than that. So, when you fill a gallery with dirt and someone comes along waving wads of bills, it's difficult not to take them because they become a tangible acknowledgement that what you've been doing actually makes sense.
-- Maurizio Cattelan -
There was a tangible sense of potential as we packed them up. 'We're giving people 3-D printers that they can afford. What are they gonna make?
-- Bre Pettis -
Dreams are vague and far away. Goals are tangible and achievable.
-- Robin Roberts -
People often confuse "goal" and "purpose." A goal is something tangible; a purpose is a direction. A goal can be achieved; a purpose is fulfilled in each moment. We can set ad achieve many goals; a purpose remains constant for life.
-- Roger Delano Hinkins -
I know I have patterns and I've always tried hard to avoid them. There are definitely certain things in my music, if I'm looking back, "Well, that was a period where I was experimenting with a certain kind of chord structure or a certain kind of sound." I've tried really hard, but I'd be hard pressed to tell you what that sound, what that tangible sound of "me" is.
-- Herbert -
There is something more to "reality" than just the tangible. There is also mood, and you cannot skip that.
-- Vilmos Zsigmond
