#object

If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you. ↗

— Martha Beck

#caring #focused #happy #live #memories

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#etiquette #like #lying #objects #observes

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#concentrate #even #going #had #keep

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#especially #faculty #intelligence #make #making

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be. ↗

— Franz Boas

#intended #kind #may #mind #object

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon? ↗

— Algernon H. Blackwood

#alas #beautiful #chiefly #deed #emotions

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#always #any #been #feel #finished

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#management #ninety #objective #objectives #percent

All objects lose by too familiar a view. ↗

— John Dryden

#lose #objects #too #view