Profound Quotes - Page 24

• Be not afraid, though every stay
  Should fail, or be removed away,
  And thou be stript of all;
  But lose thyself in that vast sea,
  The ocean of the Deity,
  And all they cares shall fall.
  
  In death which is the most profound,
  The purest life is always found;
  Then, blindly, all forego!
  He ne're shall find, who will not lose;
  Who sinks from self, shall gain repose,
  Which none but he can know.

  Gerhard Tersteegen

  Ocean, Fall, Self

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• If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's an initial uprush of relief at first, then-for me, anyway- a profound dislocation. My old assumptions about how the world works are buried, yet my new ones aren't yet operational.There's been a death of sorts, but without a few days in hell, no resurrection is possible.

  Mary Karr

  Dark, Long, Firsts

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• We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Dream, Commitment, Reality

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in a common aim, attracting them as to a single centre. Mothers, fathers, politicians: all must combine in their respect and help for this delicate work of formation, which the little child carries on in the depth of a profound psychological mystery, under the tutelage of an inner guide. This is the bright new hope for mankind.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.

  Paulo Freire

  People, World, Absence

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!

  Rex Reed

  Writing, Emotional, Rocks

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• Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade.

  David Baddiel

  Witty, Clever, Charm

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• It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Education, Appreciation, Mean

  "Return to Mathematical Circles". Book by Howard Eves, 1988.

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• Whatever the drawbacks and failures I am convinced that in years to come humanity will look back to Soviet achievements as a source of profound inspiration

  Ronnie Kasrils

  Inspiration, Years, Achievement

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• Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.

  James Turrell

  Writing, Technology, Pyramids

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• Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect In this most profound way, we are held responsible for every action, thought, and feeling, which is to say, for our every intention.

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, Feelings, Way

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Mar 24, 2015

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• In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.

  Chris Stein

  Math, Feelings, Tests

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• If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my patients tell me is likely to be true - that many times when I believed that I was right and my patients were wrong, it turned out, though often only after a prolonged search, that my rightness was superficial whereas their rightness was profound.

  Heinz Kohut

  Truth, Believe, Psychology

  Heinz Kohut (2009). “How Does Analysis Cure?”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.

  David Markson

  Information, Facts, Interest

  David Markson (1995). “Wittgenstein's mistress”, Dalkey Archive Pr

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• Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of minor interest. Thus it is possible to imagine a depressed lover, while the idea of a depressed patriot seems frankly inconceivable.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Ideas, Ordinary, Withdrawal

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• To successfully respond to the myriad of changes that shake the world, transformation into a new style of management is required. The route to take is what I call profound knowledge, knowledge for leadership of transformation.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Style, World, Management

  "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education". Book by W. Edwards Deming, 1993.

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• Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

  George Santayana

  Mean, Culture, Noble

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.69, 谷月社

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• Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Art, Pain, Communication

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.

  G. H. Hardy

  Men, He Man, Mathematician

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

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• It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done. Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians have usually similar feelings: there is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

  G. H. Hardy

  Appreciation, Art, Writing

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

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• True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

  Bill W.

  Ambition, Grace, Desire

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• Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound fulfillment that suffuses every moment and endures despite inevitable setbacks.

  Matthieu Ricard

  World, Way, Moments

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• Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.

  Robert McKee

  Choices, Given, Audience

  Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph Hitler. Because storytelling is a form of persuasive jujitsu, and because world is full of black belt storytellers, the corporate leader has to train both his offensive and defensive moves

  Robert McKee

  Moving, Two, Leader

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• At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Grief, Past, Soul

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.111, BoD – Books on Demand

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