#merely

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago? ↗

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#already #century #consists #creativity #did

So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#assent #authority #canons #clergy #constitution

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#enlarging #expression #impressionists #innovations #led

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. ↗

— William James

#decide #drunkenness #experience #feeling #feeling good

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

#audience #comes #excuse #force #merely

The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#affect #basically #claims #did #doctrine

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#family #father #financial #financial resources #his

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish. ↗

— Timothy Zahn

#foolish #ignorant #illusion #luck #merely

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#exactly #grasp #hands #merely #mind

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. ↗