Intangible Quotes

• The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Intangible Quality, Dust

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.33, Heron Dance Press

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• The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

  W. Clement Stone

  Giving, Standing Alone, Abundance

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• In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

  Hypatia

  Fighting, Men, Views

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• Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

  Helen Keller

  Positive, Hope, Encouragement

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• Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Leadership, Weapons

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• The most important things in life are intangible.

  Thom Hartmann

  Faith, Religious, Things In Life

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• The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.

  Bruce Lee

  Real, Tangible, Sith

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.74, Tuttle Publishing

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• ...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Law, Connections

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• One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Trying, Speech, Feels

  Ernest Shackleton (2015). “South”, p.194, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

  Napoleon Hill

  Powerful, Writing, Goal

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.80, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Paint, Form

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Jonathan Stuhlman, Barbara Buhler Lynes (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction”, p.15, Hudson Hills

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• What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.

  Federico Fellini

  Country, Artist, Reality

  "Every Time We Say Goodbye". Sight & Sound (London), June 1991.

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• A great brand is a promise, a compact with a customer about quality, reliability, innovation, and even community. And while the concept of brand is intangible, brand equity is far from it.

  Stephen B. Shepard

  Community, Innovation, Promise

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• Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

  Jean Cocteau

  Addiction, House, Smoking

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• Charisma is the intangible that makes people want to follow you,
  to be around you, to be influenced by you.

  Roger Dawson

  People, Want, Charisma

  Roger Dawson (2008). “Secrets of Power: Persuasion for Salespeople: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.219, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.

  Jim Rogers

  Zero, Pieces, Paper

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• But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.

  Krist Novoselic

  Feelings, Kind

  Interview with Guitar.com, www.novoselic.com.

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• As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.

  Diane Frolov

  Life, Struggle, Thinking

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• I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

  Gary Wright

  Son, Artist, Labels

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• Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Stars, Real

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.129, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Secret, Belief

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• Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder. Another is Deity. The choice to be a fool is yours.

  Vera Nazarian

  Believe, Choices, Fool

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• The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

  Richard Branson

  Success, Business, Real

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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