Instrument Quotes - page 3

There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument. (Rita Coolidge)
The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations. View quote
William Greider
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition. View quote
John Adams
I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. View quote
John Adams
The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmaninoff is the most complete of living masters of the instrument; his technique is comprehensive, and he is, of course, musical to his bone's marrow. Most important of all, he is a composer, and for this reason he is able to approach a work as none of his pianist contemporaries can approach one – that is, from the inside, as an organic and felt creative process. View quote
Sergei Rachmaninoff
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. View quote
George Boole
Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable systems built upon arithmetical statements, that I am rather inclined to regard that science as the instrument of national calamity. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests. (Walter Rodney)
The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a surveillance authority punishing free, uncoddled, undisciplined thought and tolerating nothing of mental activity other than what has been methodologically sanctioned. Science and scholarship, the medium of autonomy, has degenerated into an instrument of heteronomy. View quote
Theodor Adorno
Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility. View quote
Susan Sontag
We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying. View quote
Susan Sontag
The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that minister to it is one of the highest distinctions... In this light one sees the critic as the real helper of the artist, a torchbearing outrider, the interpreter, the brother... Just in proportion as he is sentient and restless, just in proportion as he reacts and reciprocates and penetrates, is the critic a valuable instrument. View quote
Henry James
Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought? View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of your own policy. Whether you like it or not, that's the highest effectiveness man has achieved. View quote
Norman Mailer
Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change. View quote
Jennifer Beals
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will. (Margaret Atwood)
We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world. View quote
Henry Miller
There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer. View quote
William S. Burroughs
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Thought is not essential to existence nor its cause, but it is an instrument for becoming; I become what I see in myself. All that thought suggests to me, I can do; all that thought reveals in me, I can become. This should be man's unshakable faith in himself, because God dwells in him. View quote
Sri Aurobindo