Quotes about material

Be careful what you say and do around a writer your words and actions may become material.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and, where possible, to make the illustrations tell the main story to anatomists. The text of such a memoir may soon lose its interest, and belong to the past, but good figures are of permanent value. [Justifying elaborate illustrations in his monographs.]

The value of a person’s life may not be determined on the basis of his material standing.

It's fun to think about what kind of car you want to have. You compare specifications and customize everything your way. More importantly than the type of vehicle you want to get, is where you want to go with it. Where will this car take you if you were to have it today. Perhaps it's already yours. Now where will you drive tomorrow, next month, next year, for the rest of your life? Make your journey memorable by looking ahead into the distance. The distance is where we find our ultimate destinat

It takes time, or does time take it?

There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither counting nor measuring can however be the most fundamental processes in our study of the material universe—before you can do either to any purpose you must first select what you propose to count or measure, which presupposes a classification.

One of the secrets a nation can unlock to have material wealth is, having a leader who will take an uncompromising stand to establish truth and honesty as a rule of building the nation

You think the things you can touch and feel are the things that are real, but they are not. Over time, they all get old and decline. The people, the houses, the rocks and the mountains: one day they will all crumble. This is because they are not as real as the things that last forever. It is another one of the lessons we come to teach.

Beautiful mosaics are made of broken or torn material. The most spectacular personal brands are compilations of the same.

Sometimes spiritual blessings are much more important than most material goals we pursue in life.

Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of the compound there intervenes, as an ingredient, as it is commonly called, as a material principle and as a constituent of the whole compound the material and principle of fire, not fire itself. This I was the first to call phlogiston.

'White Material' is about courage and craziness.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

It's often the material things that provide the essence of memory.

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.

Artha - attainment of wealth, material prosperity,Its realization on righteous and moral basis be;- 5 -

When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time. Moreover, these material wealth don’t just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of the nation

Material wealth don’t just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of a nation

Material wealth alone is not enough to build a great nation.

The best investments are in things you cannot buy.

Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don't give a damn what the film is about. I am more interested in how to handle the material so as to create an emotion in the audience. I find too many people are interested in the content. If you were painting a still life of some apples on a plate, it's like you'd be worrying whether the apples were sweet or sour. Who cares?

To be focused on acquiring material things is to forfeit blessings associated with eternal reward

One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real.

External beauty is certainly cool to admire, but when worshipped - it eclipses internal shine.

Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

The rich and the poor truly are from different realms: one has adapted to become an expert in material forfeit; the other has forfeited all they are to material, and thus is enslaved, by it.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

He explained that often times it's the love of something- like money, material, possessions, or power-and the fear of losing them, that command people to act. That love and fear are really the only two things that can forever alter a person, whether for the better or worse.

Time is the material from which life is made

A child learns to be guilty when he is punished and scolded for damaging material objects

Love people. Use things. The opposite never works.

Money is a by-product of time. Money is the time that is well converted. Therefore, time is the raw material from which money is made.

Time is the raw material from which money is made.

Time is the raw material from which products are made, when products are sold, money is made.

Learning is crucial if you want to remain special and material

What you study is more important than how you study. Students are subordinate to materials, much like novice cooks are subordinate to recipes. If you select the wrong material, the wrong textbook, the wrong group of words, it doesn't matter how much (or how well) you study. It doesn't matter how good your teacher is. One must find the highest-frequency material. Material beats method.

A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities.

Everything has a past, a voice, existed at some point, even things as small and seemingly meaningless as a house in a huge suburb. It’s a house like every other house… but at some point a family lived there, made it theirs, made it important. When people forget that history, that somebody at some point thought the house mattered, it just becomes an empty pile of nailed wood and brick and concrete that gets torn down for some strip mall or chain store to take its place… and that’s what happens mo

When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger to life and the world became desirous to living, we became smaller to each other.

Material and technical changes are mostly quite visible. But less visible are the changes in the mind of the people, their way of thinking, their conception of the world and the quality of their fears. ("Horizon and Vision" )

When we break 5M’s of Manufacturing Efficiency - Men, Machine, Materials, Methods & Money to personal level, the first two M’s will spell Minutes & Mind, and rest remain constant!

Unfortunately, we do not often see the advantages in the power of values and virtues. We are easily taken away by physical wealth, material possessions and the power of money.

Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master.

The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.

Life and history have repeatedly taught us that values and virtues are far much stronger than the physical wealth we often see. For material wealth emanates from values and virtues.

The worst of me is the raw material from which God molds the best of me.

Leaders don't define wealth by material things they see. They define wealth by the visions they imagine and actions they take.

Sell your materials but save your morals.

We can fill our lives with ‘stuff,’ but as we do we’re concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that ‘stuff.

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

It is wiser to love who you are than what you want.

True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.

Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness t