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• The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very precise way.

  Gaspard Ulliel

  People, Challenges, Way

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• As for a fashion designer, you have those very precise deadlines to keep so you have to renew yourself constantly every three or six months. When you think about it, it's so intense.

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Fashion, Thinking, Months

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• Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with our technology the precise brain changes that occur with practice... The unique collaboration on meditation is just beginning.

  Richard Davidson

  Buddhist, Unique, Technology

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• You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Space, Looks, Movement

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• Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.

  Bobby Knight

  Success, Self Esteem, Winning

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• When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Together, Too Much, Sides

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• On cannot be precise, and still be true.

  Marc Chagall

  Truth, Being True, Stills

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• It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Expression, Causes, Emotion

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• In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Book, Mountain

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

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• It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to whether we are dealing with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition or a scientific theory. "Religious truth" conveys nothing clear to me at all.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Science, Different

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or of ignorance. Knowledge is not so precise a concept as is commonly thought. Instead of saying 'I know this', we ought to say 'I more or less know something more or less like this'. ... Knowledge in practical affairs has not the certainty or the precision of arithmetic.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s.

  Naomi Klein

  Science, Community, Political

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a large difference between spacing out in the lower occult astral planes, weird, junky, fuzzy energy, and meditation. Meditation is sharp, clear, precise, perfect, luminous, shiny, happy, etheric, cosmic, and dissolute.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Differences, Perfect

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• I don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me. Instead of giving marks to the actors I like to give marks to the camera.

  Jose Padilha

  Block, Giving, Cameras

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• The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial and impersonal as the law of gravity is. It is precise and it is exact

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Gravity, Laws Of Nature

  Rhonda Byrne (2008). “The Secret”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• In either case, ugly or beautiful, people derive a significant part of their identity, be it negative or positive, from their body. To be more precise, they derive their identity from the I-thought that they erroneously attach to the mental image or concept of their body.
  Equating the physical sense-perceived body that is destined to grow old, wither and die with 'I' always leads to suffering sooner or later.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Beautiful, People, Suffering

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.50, Penguin

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• American Morons is the work of an original. Like Hitchcock or Ramsey Campbell, the style is precise, alert, and well-mannered, inviting us to enter Hirshberg's private world so that he may lock the door behind us. If there is anyone in contemporary fiction worth watching, it is Glen Hirshberg.

  Dennis Etchison

  Doors, Contemporary Fiction, Style

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• Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

  Harold Innis

  Cutting, Technology, Needs

  Harold A. Innis, Daniel Drache (1995). “Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change: Selected Essays”, p.323, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• A SWEET disorder in the dress
  Kindles in clothes a wantonness :
  A lawn about the shoulders thrown
  Into a fine distraction :
  An erring lace which here and there
  Enthrals the crimson stomacher :
  A cuff neglectful, and thereby
  Ribbons to flow confusedly :
  A winning wave (deserving note)
  In the tempestuous petticoat :
  A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
  I see a wild civility :
  Do more bewitch me than when art
  Is too precise in every part.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Art, Winning

  Robert Herrick, “Delight In Disorder”

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• There are 15 constants- the gravitational constant, various constants about the strong and weak nuclear force, etc.- that have precise values. If any one of those constants was off by even one part in a million, or in some cases, by one part in a million million, the universe could not have actually come to the point where we see it. Matter would not have been able to coalesce, there would have been no galaxy, stars, planets or people

  Francis Collins

  Strong, Stars, People

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• Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Fiction, Film, Enough

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• Countries trade with each other - or to be more precise people buy and sell from each other across frontiers - because that is the way to advance their interests. We do not need to beg people to trade with us - as long as we have something that people want, of a quality they expect and at a price they are prepared to pay.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Long, People

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• We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other complex substances with high molecular weight will come to rely upon a new structural chemistry, involving precise geometrical relationships among the atoms in the molecules and the rigorous application of the new structural principles, and that great progress will be made, through this technique, in the attack, by chemical methods, on the problems of biology and medicine.

  Linus Pauling

  Believe, Medicine, Rely Upon

  Linus Pauling, Barclay Kamb, Linda Pauling Kamb (2001). “Linus Pauling: Selected Scientific Papers”, p.17, World Scientific

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• The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera - and himself.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Dream, Photography, Real

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.170, Vintage

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• To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression. And this organization, this precision, will always escape you, if you do not appreciate what a picture is, if you do not understand that the composition, the logic, the equilibrium of the surfaces and values are the only ways of giving meaning to all that is continuously appearing and vanishing before our very eyes.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Expression

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