The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of the theory is to demonstrate these laws; it reduces all physical researches on the propagation of heat, to problems of the integral calculus, whose elements are given by experiment. No subject has more extensive relations with the progress of industry and the natural sciences; for the action of heat is always present, it influences the processes of the arts, and occurs in all the phenomena of the universe.
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
Steep yourself in your subject, work like hell, and love, honor and obey your hunches.
There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art. . . The tower will be the tallest edifice ever raised by man. Will it therefore be imposing in its own way?
Shut up, me,” Leo said aloud. “What?” Piper asked. “Nothing,” he said. “Long night. I think I’m hallucinating. It’s cool. ” Sitting in front, Leo couldn’t see their faces, but he assumed from their silence that his friends were not pleased to have a sleepless, hallucinating dragon driver. “Just joking. ” Leo decided it might be good to change the subject.
I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial and misunderstood. . . . As a minister, I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.
What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject and object, form and substance. Those divisions are just dialectical inventions that came later. . . They are just ghosts, immortal gods of the modern mythos which appear to us to be real because we are within that mythos. But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic gods they replaced.
I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.
while the executive should give every possible value to the information of the specialist, no executive should abdicate thinking on any subject because of the expert. The expert's information or opinion should not be allowed automatically to become a decision. On the other hand, full recognition should be given to the part the expert plays in decision making.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.
I used to think, if I were the Lord, I would not suffer people to be tried as they are. But I have changed my mind on that subject. Now I think I would, if I were the Lord, because it purges out the meanness and corruption that stick around the saints, like flies around molasses.
I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.
We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.
In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of the scene. . . This personal absorption is what we mean by 'style. ' It is strange that we would choose so oddly surfacey a word - style - for this most soulful aspect of writing. We could, perhaps more exactly, call this relation between consciousness and its subject 'integrity. ' What else is the articulation of perception?
The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
If you want to understand a subject promise to speak on it.
Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.
I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.
After I discovered my degree in photojournalism would only get me a job in a camera store, I taught myself lighting. I read tons of magazines and books and studied the photos trying to figure out how they were done. I bought some flash equipment and played around until I figured out how to make a subject look as I envisioned it should look.
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.