Quotes having the keyword Grasp
Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.
by Josiah Royce (Philosopher, American , born in 1855) keywords: any, divine, grasp, image, knowledge, listen, musical, order, phrase, present, rhythm, speak, temporal, thereupon , whole For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
by Carl Sagan (Scientist, American , born in 1934) keywords: better, delusion, far, grasp, however, persist, really, reassuring, satisfying, than , universe It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
by Carl Sagan (Scientist, American , born in 1934) keywords: better, delusion, far, grasp, however, persist, really, reassuring, satisfying, than , universe Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
by Jessica Savitch (Journalist, American , born in 1947) keywords: always, been, form, good, grasp, managers, news, over, slow, some, substance , television The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
by Jessica Savitch (Journalist, American , born in 1947) keywords: being, difficult, grasp, her, idea, real, schizophrenic, stardom, television , woman In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
by Mary Schmich (Journalist , American) keywords: back, before, fabulous, grasp, how, lay, look, looked, much, now, photos, possibility, really, recall, twenty, way, years , yourself A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
by Hugh Sidey (Journalist, American , born in 1927) topics: Humor keywords: armor, deep, down, good, grasp, heart, humor, joy, laughter, life, lips, needed, person, pretty, sense, sign , some It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
by Kate Smith (Musician, American , born in 1907) keywords: audience, every, grasp, important, meaning, only, should, song, syllable, then, understand , word Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.
by Tony Snow (Journalist, American , born in 1955) keywords: clearly, day, each, error, grasp, help, involves, more, refine, science, scientists, sure, theories, trial, universe, us, wonders , world I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.
by Michael Tilson Thomas (Musician, American , born in 1944) keywords: associated, dances, defining, experience, grasp, human, kids, moment, music, needs, particular, presented, simple, some, songs, think , way Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.
by Paul A. Volcker (Economist, American , born in 1927) keywords: because, business, cycles, emphasis, grasp, heavy, industry, inventories, inventory, less, may, tend, think , typically I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
by Barbara Walters (Journalist, American , born in 1931) keywords: background, better, desk, dinner, get, going, good, grasp, information, nbc, party, piles, than, washington , world Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?
by John Archibald Wheeler (Physicist, American , born in 1911) keywords: beautiful, been, behind, century, could, decade, each, grasp, how, idea, millennium, other, otherwise, say, simple, stupid, surely , will Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
by Alfred North Whitehead (Mathematician, English , born in 1861) keywords: circumstances, even, finite, grasp, infinite, infinitude, life, minds, much, our, out, possibilities, purpose, surrounded, these , yet The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
by Colin Wilson (Writer, English , born in 1931) keywords: change, exactly, grasp, hands, merely, mind, power, same , world Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
by Mary Wollstonecraft (Writer, British , born in 1759) keywords: abolished, deadly, freeing, grasp, human, itself, long, mind, ministers, monarchs, progress, slavery, stops, which, whose, will, world , yet China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.
by Ziyi Zhang (Actor, Chinese , born in 1979) keywords: becoming, been, better, chances, china, cinema, english, exposure, first, grasp, internationally, known, language, learn, more, perhaps, rising, some, then, thing, think , time
