Quotes of Intangible - somelinesforyou

“ We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe. ”

- Christopher Alexander

“ There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ The concentration and dedication — the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost. ”

- Tom Seaver

“ Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. ”

- Anonymous

“ Every activity of man should add to the intangible values of life as well as to the tangible. ”

- Unknown

“ Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives us a greater sense of infinity than if we were to spend all our days with our eyes hypnotically glued to the giant telescope at Mt. Palomar. What we see ultimately is that the placebo isn't really necessary and that the mind can carry out its difficult and wondrous missions unprompted by little pills… ”

- Norman Cousins

“ Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage. ”

- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

“ The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records. ”

- Richard Branson

“ The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became "real" according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: "I swallow it, therefore it is… ”

- Florence E. King

“ Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time — is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next. ”

- Cesare Pavese

“ If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism… ”

- Jean Cocteau

“ Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing… ”

- John Lardner

“ Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired. ”

- Jean Baudrillard
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