Expression Quotes - Page 18

• A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

  Karel Reisz

  Movie, Inspiring, Style

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• Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Blame, Superficial

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• Criticism, analysis, and insults are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Criticism, Needs

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• Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Needs, Messages

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• Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Needs, Compliment

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• All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Negative, Needs

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• Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Criticism, Needs

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2003). “Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships”, p.30, PuddleDancer Press

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• Conventional compliments often take the form of judgments however positive, and are sometimes offered to manipulate the behavior of others. NVC encourages the expression of appreciation solely for celebration.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Appreciation, Communication, Celebration

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• Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Statistics, Way

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• There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names. It is, however, pure and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward, confined to no forms of religion nor excluded from any, where the heart stands in perfect sincerity. In whomsoever this takes root and grows, of what nation soever, they become brethren in the best sense of the expression.

  John Woolman

  God, Christian, Heart

  John WOOLMAN (1840). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel labours, and christian experiences of ---”, p.238

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• The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

  Ernesto Sabato

  Mean, People, Doe

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• Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Unique, Media, Creating

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• But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.

  J. G. Farrell

  Plato, Rivers, White

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• Men who know their God are before anything else men who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for God's glory come to expression is in their prayers. If there is little energy for such prayer, and little consequent practice of it, this is a sure sign that as yet we scarcely know our God.

  J. I. Packer

  Prayer, Men, Practice

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• Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.

  Fannie Farmer

  Art, Mean, Self

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• Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again.

  Horst P. Horst

  Fashion, Elegance

  "Horst P Horst photography retrospective to open at V&A museum" by Hannah Marriott, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2014.

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• Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Practice, Growth, Excellence

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.32, Shambhala Publications

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• All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness.  Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mistake, Reality, Thinking

  "Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen". Book by Shunryū Suzuki. Chapter: "Letters From Emptiness", p. 33, 2002.

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• The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

  Jack Kornfield

  Courageous, Empty, True Nature

  Twitter post from Feb 02, 2015

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• In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom. In fact, as one serves the mind, one sees that following desires, attractions, and repulsions is not at all freedom, but is a kind of bondage. A mind filled with desires and grasping inevitably entails great suffering. Freedom is not to be gained through the ability to perform certain external actions. True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.

  Jack Kornfield

  Mean, Mind, Suffering

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• The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we can experience ourselves. In fact, it is the ego that feels that we have an ego. It is ego that tells us, My ego is bothering me. I feel very self-conscious about having to be me. I feel that I have a tremendous burden in me, and I wonder what the best way to get rid of it is. Yet all those expressions of restlessness that keep coming out of us are the expression of buddha nature: the expression of our unborn, unobstructed, and nondwelling nature.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Real, Ideas, Self

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• The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

  Robert Musil

  Beautiful, Art, Facts

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• The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Real, Artist, Thinking

  Rudolf Steiner, Michael Howard (1998). “Art as Spiritual Activity: Rudolf Steiner's Contribution to the Visual Arts”, p.130, SteinerBooks

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• It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

  Abe Fortas

  Teacher, Rights, Freedom Of Speech

  Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School Dist. (1969)

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• The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.

  Dave Eggers

  Couple, Keys, Light

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