Atmosphere Quotes - Page 16

• Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

  Rembrandt

  Painting

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• The atmosphere generated by the fans in Celtic's stadium for our visit was the most impressive I've ever witnessed. The grounds of Liverpool and Manchester United are good and the hostile feeling of playing against Real Madrid in the Bernabeu is also excellent, but the atmosphere against Celtic was the best.

  Xavi

  Real, Feelings, Fans

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• Whatever prestige the bourgeoisie may today be willing to grant to fragmentary or deliberately retrograde artistic tentatives, creation can now be nothing less than a synthesis aiming at the construction of entire atmospheres and styles of life. . . . A unitary urbanism — the synthesis we call for, incorporating arts and technologies — must be created in accordance with new values of life, values which we now need to distinguish and disseminate. . . .

  Gil J Wolman

  Art, Technology, Style

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• For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a thin seam of dark blue light-our atmosphere. Obviously this was not the ocean of air I had been told it was so many times in my life. I was terrified by its fragile appearance.

  Ulf Merbold

  Ocean, Dark, Space

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• In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life - the plants and animals that inhabit the earth - has evolved merely to regulate the chemistry of the biosphere. Humans are insignificant participants, far less important to the life cycle than termites. Even the imbalance that we have created by adding massive quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere may be brought back to acceptable levels by other organisms functioning in their capacity to correct excesses.

  David Easton

  Animal, Thinking, Air

  David Easton (2007). “The Rammed Earth House”, p.54, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competitiveness. There is respect for the environment and for the individuals within it, which comes through experience of freedom within the community.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Community, Working Together

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• In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies across the dead page, suffocated signs full of muffled sound and faded glory, signifying absolutely nothing. And it is the nothing, the Mystery, the Emptiness alone that needs to be realized: not known but felt, not thought but breathed, not an object but an atmosphere, not a lesson but a life.

  Ken Wilber

  Lying, Book, Reality

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.141, Shambhala Publications

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• I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me—projecting to the public. That was my job. I think I always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give ‘em what they never knew they wanted.

  Diana Vreeland

  Jobs, Thinking, Views

  Diana Vreeland (1984). “D.V.”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

  Charlotte Mason

  Discipline

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “School Education”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• You are so part of the world
  that your slightest action contributes to its reality.
  Your breath changes the atmosphere.
  Your encounters with others
  alter the fabrics of their lives,
  and the lives of those
  who come in contact with them.

  Jane Roberts

  Reality, Encounters, Fabric

  Jane Roberts (1981). “The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• A hotter, moister atmosphere is an atmosphere primed to trigger disasters.

  Michael Oppenheimer

  Disaster, Triggers, Hotter

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• Have the models been successful in predicting anything? They, of course, predict substantial global warming. This is not surprising given the expressed belief of some of the model builders in the global warming Hypothesis and the many parameters in the model that need to be introduced. However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

  David Douglas

  Successful, Opposites, Data

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• Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being pessimistic and negative about our experiences will not enhance the quality of our lives. A determination to be of good cheer can help us and those around us to enjoy life more fully.

  Barbara W. Winder

  Happiness, Determination, Cheer

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• To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Paint, Figures, Humans

  "Futurism" edited by Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, (p. 172), 2008.

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• Each one of us starts Karate with some particular reason: to be a good fighter, to keep in good shape, to protect oneself. I wanted to become very strong myself when I first began. But Karate training soon teaches that real strength is facing oneself strictly, with severe eyes. This is the first condition of martial arts training. Therefore, all karateka must be strong inwardly, but quite gentle to others. As we train together, each contributing to a good atmosphere, let's try to bring out that serious strong mentality from deep inside.

  Tsutomu Ohshima

  Art, Strong, Real

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• There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.

  Ivor Novello

  Holiday, Relaxation, Mind

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• Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Music, Spirit, Worship

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• Prayer need not be an activity we engage in for only an hour each morning. Rather, let us live in the atmosphere of prayer, our hearts continually being lifted up in prayer to Him.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Morning, Prayer, Heart

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• When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.

  Jean Plaidy

  London, Palaces, Court

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• Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Half, Temperature, Tone

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1871). “Music and morals”, p.291

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• Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Lying, Foundation, Adequate

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.8, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

  Frank Serpico

  Police, Doe, Honest

  "The Return of Frank Serpico". Frank Serpico's speech before the New York Knapp Commission on police corruption and other misconduct, www.villagevoice.com. October 1971.

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• You got the impression that each and every little individual was feeling pretty important doing the pretty important job of building up a State . The atmosphere reminded me of a word it was ’democracy.’

  Anna Louise Strong

  Jobs, Building Up, Feelings

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• Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity; and when the man goes about it resolutely, it seems to me now as though his footsteps were echoing beyond the stars, though only heard faintly in the atmosphere of this world.

  William Mountford

  Stars, Men, Age

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.174

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• It is important to recognize the power of our emotions-and to take responsibility for them by creating a light and positive atmosphere around ourselves. This attitude of joy that we create helps alleviate states of hopelessness, loneliness, and despair. Our relationships with others thus naturally improve, and little by little the whole of society becomes more positive and balanced.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Life, Attitude, Loneliness

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