Image Quotes - page 8

The very act of thinking about power in our lives and experiences creates a process of revelation and self-analysis that may even make us look at ourselves in a new light... thinking about power and its complex manifestations may not simply lead to a better understanding of the abstract complexities of society, but may have an effect on one‟s own image and identity. Perhaps a warning label should be placed on the cover... (Kenneth Boulding)
[Even the mechanism can be endowed with an image. Thus] the thermostat has an image of the outside world in the shape of information regarding its temperature. It has also a value system in the sense of the ideal temperature at which it is set. Its behavior is directed towards the receipt of information which will bring its image and its value systems together. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
If a totally new image is to come into being however, there must be sensitivity to internal messages, the image itself must be sensitive to change, must be unstable, and it must include a value image which places high value on trials, experiments, and the trying of new things. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky. Even if it only lasts for a minute or a day. The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
So the poor instead of bread made do with a picture of the bleeding scourged and nailed-up Christ and prayed to that image of their helplessness. View quote
Peter Weiss
Of all nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
The American citizen thus lives in a world where fantasy is more real than reality, where the image has more dignity than its original. We hardly dare face our bewilderment, because our ambiguous experience is so pleasantly iridescent, and the solace of belief in contrived reality is so thoroughly real. We have become eager accessories to the great hoaxes of the age. These are the hoaxes we play on ourselves. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul. View quote
Marsden Hartley
It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not. View quote
Gwen Ifill
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
For though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image. And whether we are to line up with him or against him, it is well that we should know all we can concerning his nature and potentialities. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Time is the image of eternity. View quote
Diogenes Laërtius
There is a kind, I might almost say, of artistic satisfaction, when we are able to survey the enormous wealth of Nature as a regularly ordered whole a kosmos, an image of the logical thought of our own mind. View quote
Hermann von Helmholtz
There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. View quote
Ansel Adams
No matter what these people say about me, my music does not glorify any image, my music is spiritual if you listen to it. It's all about emotion, it's all about life. View quote
Tupac Shakur
Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past. View quote
Walter Benjamin
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. View quote
Walter Benjamin
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Skepticism is like a microscope whose magnification is constantly increased: the sharp image that one begins with finally dissolves, because it is not possible to see ultimate things: their existence is only to be inferred. View quote
Stanisław Lem
We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible. (Lewis H. Lapham)
In order to create an image almost similar to that of a pencil case standing up and walking, I try to eliminate all excess by cutting. I have the feeling that this process (of "cutting off") is linked in some way to "elegance". Elegance and so-called "eliminating excess", or the beauty that remains after excess has beeen eliminated... View quote
Yohji Yamamoto
How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamped with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary. View quote
Thomas Hood
Those things are inextricable bound up in my mind, with words I make an image and vice versa. View quote
Jan Theuninck
It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity - of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one. View quote
Elbert Hubbard