Way Quotes - Page 662

In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.

There are no rules for living, because you are unique. Find your truth in each moment and dare to live it. That is the way to freedom.

One way to be aware of it, to teach to yourself, is simply to read work aloud. I love reading the endings of books aloud when I start nearing the end.

Even today, I notice that some of my pieces are explicitly tonal; there are actually tonics and dominants. And then there are pieces that are not tonal. I tend to think that there's a dichotomy that has to do with the way pitches are structured.

The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.

I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.

The tetrahedron was [ Buckminster Fuller's] big thing. He'd talk about it in the same way Plato talked about angles.

[Buckminster Fuller] was quite a Newtonian in certain ways. But he was an excellent inventor and kept people on their toes.

Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.

I think [H.P. Lovecraft] recognized what he was dealing with, he was dealing with demons. And he was dealing with creatures that're suffering. There's no way out of this suffering.

It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational.

You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation.

If you're going to run for president as the anti-Clinton, you should know that Democrats and their media friends will do whatever it takes to make you look Clintonian... The questions won't go away because Democrats are desperate to define Republican deviancy down to Clinton levels. The ugliness is just getting started.

If we are to have a stabilized market demand, selling pressure should be maintained . . . perhaps increased . . .at the first sign of a decline in business. I know of no single way business managers can do more to stabilize market demand than through greater stabilization of sales and advertising expenditures.

Confronted with such a variety most philosophers try to establish one approach to the exclusion of all others. As far as they are concerned there can only be one true way- and they want to find it. Thus normative philosophers argue that knowledge is a result of the application of certain rules, they propose rules which in their opinion constitute knowledge and reject what clashes with them.

The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money

To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.

The best way to understand any system is to understand the problem it was invented to solve.

I would like to do something really big and then something really small, and see what it's like to work in that way, but in front of a live audience.

If they could say that to their patients, it could be a way to treatment, as in both working on it and preserving it. That could give a patient the faith to fully experience that beauty, without reliving the torment.

When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British felt it in their chests.

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

It has been a period where people have been far nicer to one another in every possible way. I'm not saying it's because we're dropping our empathy that we're nicer to each other, just that the drop doesn't seem to be causing any harm.

You'll still work with some directors where that doesn't happen, and sometimes it's out of necessity because you're in a really complicated, choreographed fight scene and the whole thing is being prevised in a computer, so it's been decided months before, but I think that's sneaking into the way action scenes are shot.