Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. ‘Action sport’ would be the least offensive categorization.
Some people believe tarot cards are a form of black magic or senseless new age mysticism but for me they are a practical way of talking directly to the universe.
Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
Geography was the lesson I always looked forward to most. It was a form of escapism. It could be bleak midwinter outside but inside you’re learning about African farming methods or the Great Lakes. No other lesson had that excitement.
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it’s our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
You can like or dislike me. You are entitled to form an opinion about me, and I don’t fear being judged.
While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business.
I have got a scheme to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steam engine in the inside so contrived as to move an immense pair of wings, fixed on the outside of the horse, in such a manner as to carry it up into the air while a person sits on its back.
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
When you fail by your own standards, it’s a form of success.
Shashi saab had always wished that the traditions continue, even after he bids adieu to the mortal world. He didn’t want any of us to mourn his death; his desire was to celebrate life in every form.
The perseverance and the strength and the determination and the sacrifice that so many millions of people have had to endure to form this country is far greater than anything that we can really imagine.
Super early-stage companies have a village that form around them for support.
Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it… The effect that it has had on people’s minds.
There’s a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that.
The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.
If I can’t find real situations that interest me in real life, then I’ll go and write them in play form.
There’s a higher form of happiness in commitment. I’m counting on it.
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.
More important than your obligation to follow your conscience, or at least prior to it, is your obligation to form your conscience correctly.
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
For me, exercise is a form of meditation and I find it very calming.
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.
Violin was my first form of expression – and is still in a lot of ways.
Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
Beast Mode doesn’t make excuses. It doesn’t complain. Whatever you’re doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.
Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.
Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Man’s naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
Shoot for a total of no more than 80 grams of carbs in your daily diet. This means favoring vegetables that grow above ground like kale, broccoli, spinach, and cauliflower as opposed to those that store carbohydrate in the form of starch like potatoes and beets.
I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.
We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then – and this is the best part – we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we’re free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
The thing that influenced me most in relation to ‘Nanny McPhee’ were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it’s a stranger from out of town.
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Relationships are eternal. The ‘separation’ is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.
It’s hard to form actual legitimate relationships.
I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.
To me, snowboarding is really an art form, and I think every athlete, every snowboarder has her own style, and that makes them stand out.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
I want to make it clear: it’s not that I hate mainstream cinema. It’s perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
We have ground for believing that a noble form of socialism existed among the prehistoric and primitive people on this planet, the people that broke into restless groups after the ancient Deluge and went wandering over the globe. For we find a socialist tendency in all the barbaric tribes of earth.
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
I used to be a calligrapher for weddings and events – that was my side job while I was auditioning. I think handwritten notes are a lost art form. When I booked my first pilot, my dad wrote me a letter that I still have. The idea of someone taking the time to put pen to paper is really special.
