I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind.
The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature, is nevertheless quite intriguing. . . . Many of the high-quality sighting reports involve certain objective aspects, which, to an open-minded bystander, are quite impressive.
It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.
If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.
Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another.
Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.
It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U. S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because it involves too much self-accusation and principally because they have no standards outside of themselves by which to measure their times.
This was absolutely an attack on [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair, principally, and the perspective which is really predominant in Europe right now that he's not questioning enough of Mr. Bush's policies. " (about his latest song Shoot the Dog)
It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in its little complacency. . . . The difference between inner experience and philosophy resides principally in this: that in experience,. . . what counts is no longer the statement of wind, but the wind.
Training is principally an act of faith.
In my opinion, the continued popularity of these gross distortions of Iran in the U. S. seems to reveal more about certain aspects of America than about Iran. It seems that the popularity of these memoirs is largely due to the fact that, while claiming to do the opposite, they regularly reinforce the dominant representations of Iran in America by constructing an exotic, backward, and barbaric Iran principally based on U. S. archives.
Happiness is found principally in meditation.
The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life. . . three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys.
The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale.
Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book.
Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.
It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.