#currents

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#contact #conversation #currents #elation #enriches

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#currents #highs #i #like #lows

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. ↗

— William James

#another #being #currents #dynamic #effective

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time. ↗

— Franz Boas

#currents #darwin #due #helped #hope

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. ↗

— Carl Jung

#among #chaotic #currents #life #long

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#author #come #contemporary #currents #experience

With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#board #canoe #currents #draws #enough

There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste! ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#air #around #case #created #currents

A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable. ↗

— John Bates Clark

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I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired. ↗

— Richard Wagner

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