Currents Quotes - Page 18

• Everything has two aspects: the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only rare individuals may see in moments of clairvoyance and metaphysical abstraction.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Men, Two, Ordinary

  "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries" edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, (p. 440), 1972.

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• Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top - though they often do - but that the best will never even apply.

  Paul Jacob

  Political, Worst, Political Systems

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• Our current tax code is one that was designed by and for the benefit of politicians and lobbyists. It punishes achievement and rewards laziness. It punishes the voting blocks unimportant to politicians, and rewards voting blocks who keep them in office.

  Neal Boortz

  Block, Office, Achievement

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• I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.

  Meryl Streep

  Pain, Character, Made Up Stories

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• On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Fate, New Orleans, Cities

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2.2°C warmer than today), Antarctica had far less ice and sea levels were a stunning 25 meters higher than today. If we stay on our current emissions path, the planet will almost certainly be that warm by the century's end.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Years, Ice, Sea

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• Listen to it, and you are hearing the mighty currents of the air rushing down the latitudes of the earth, currents from the Mackenzie and the Athabasca and the Saskatchewan, and from the prairies and the white Tundra. It is a homeless wind, forever on the move.

  Hal Borland

  Moving, Air, Wind

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• I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterdays election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld.

  Jim Clyburn

  War, Believe, Iraq

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• It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.

  Emile Durkheim

  Sadness, Mean, Doe

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.333, Routledge

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• The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice, every user of land should be required to make an annual payment to the local government equal to the current rental value of the land that he or she prevents others from using.

  Robert Solow

  Rights, Government, Land

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• I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.

  Nikola Tesla

  Lamps, Electric Current, Brightness

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• Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.

  Nikola Tesla

  Air, Numbers, Space

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.57, eKitap Projesi

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• Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They sing for a mate, to claim their territory, or simply to give voice to the delight of being alive in the midst of a beautiful day. Perhaps more than the birds do, humans hold a grudge. They sing to complain of how grievously they have been wronged, and how to avoid it in the future. They sing to help themselves execute a job of work. They sing so the subsequent generations won’t forget what the current generation endured, or dreamed, or delighted in.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Beautiful, Jobs, Voice

  Linda Ronstadt (2013). “Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.

  Ian Botham

  People, Ashes, Trends

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• Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current

  William Peter Blatty

  Doe, Littles, Horror

  Interview with Lucy A. Snyder, www.lucysnyder.com. July 26, 1999.

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• The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.

  Stephen Covey

  Reflection, Determined, Social

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.78, Mango Media Inc.

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• You can never get more by saying "No." You can hold a current position by saying "No", but you can only move forward by saying "Yes."

  Marshall Sylver

  Inspirational, Moving, Saying Yes

  Marshall Sylver (1997). “Passion Profit Power”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.

  Andy Stanley

  Leader, Inspire, Coaching

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• We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning.

  Raul Grijalva

  Country, Significant Change, Two

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• The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Passion, Mean

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• The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel.

  Dennis Miller

  Reading, Tunnels, Wind

  Dennis Miller (2001). “I Rant, Therefore I Am”, p.173, Crown Forum

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• The way I see it, gold is headed over $1000 an ounce, probably much higher. At anywhere near current prices, it's the lowest risk, highest potential investment I can think of.

  Doug Casey

  Thinking, Risk, Gold

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• Your biggest problem, is that you think the current problem you're facing is your problem

  Tony Robbins

  Thinking, Inner Strength, Problem

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• If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the bodily conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it.

  Walter Russell

  Tired, Thinking, Sick

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• It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.

  John Dewey

  Weed, Intelligent, Giving

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.227, SIU Press

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