#tract

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#actions #give #hand #individual #most

A protracted legislative fight will not move us closer to where the music industry wants to be - delivering music to fans through a variety of different, innovative Web sites. ↗

— Hilary Rosen

#delivering #different #fans #fight #industry

We do not attract what we want, but what we are. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#want

Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#because #chess #choice #competition #difficulties

It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric - without a practical or visual reality. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#abstract #before #body #choice #difficult

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

There are people in Baghdad pursuing the initiative that I started, and I want to give them every chance of success. I don't want to provide any distractions. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#baghdad #chance #distractions #every #give

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#desert #elements #hours #i #into

I was not an attractive child. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#child #i

The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#distractions #eating #fine #flavor #food