Vitality Quotes - Page 15

• Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Essentials, Diaries

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• The snapshooter’s pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection, which is exactly their appeal and their style. The picture isn’t straight. It isn’t done well. It isn’t composed. It isn’t thought out. And out of this imbalance, and out of this not knowing, and out of this real innocence toward the medium comes an enormous vitality and expression of life.

  Lisette Model

  Real, Expression, Knowing

  Elisabeth Sussman, Lisette Model (2001). “Lisette Model”, Phaidon Press

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• Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.

  L. Neil Smith

  Humanity, Enemy, Important

  "Am I the NRA?". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. January 14, 2007.

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• The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?

  James Hillman

  Death, Ideas, Effort

  James Hillman (2012). “The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• When you lose the gayborhoods, you lose the political power that comes when you're concentrated in precincts, and you also lose the cultural vitality.

  Cleve Jones

  Political, Political Power, Loses

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Over time the energy generated in romance and lovemaking provides the vitality that inspires each partner for enthusiastic creative expression in life.

  John Friend

  Expression, Creative, Romance

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• Happiness comes from the dissolution of the mind, not from external objects. Through meditation we can achieve everything including bliss, health, strength, intelligence and vitality. But it should be practiced properly in solitude and with care.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Meditation, Solitude, Mind

  Amritanandamayi (Mata) (1994). “For My Children: Selected Teachings of Divine Mother Ammachi”

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• It is suggested that all written works, including this one, have dangerous implications to the vitality of an oral tradition and to the health of a civilization, particularly if they thwart the interest of a people in culture, and following Aristotle, the cathartic effects of culture. "It is written but I say unto you" is a powerful directive to Western civilization.

  Harold Innis

  Powerful, Civilization, People

  "Empire and Communications". Book by Harold Innis, pp. 19-20, 2007.

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• Governments and politicians use the family as an indicator of the health and strength of social life. Politicians fear that any weakening of family life will in some way sap the vitality of national life.... The family is also important to businessmen. It is one of the major purchasing groups of our consumer society.

  Adrian Wilson

  Government, Important, Groups

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• The partisans of eugenic planning hear that other music, the music that says that there shall be nothing random in the world, nothing independent, nothing moved by its own vitality, nothing out of keeping with some idea: even our children must not be our progeny, but our creation.

  Charles Frankel

  Children, Independent, Ideas

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• The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.

  Ronald Syme

  Aristocracy, Empires, British History

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• Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing
  enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know
  you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding any one.

  Gertrude Stein

  Mean, Knowing, Understanding

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.5415, Delphi Classics

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• A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.

  John French Sloan

  Drawing, Faults, Virtue

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• I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.

  Liam Neeson

  War, Renewal, Cranes

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• Our vitality, and the vitality of each nation, rests on the sincerity and depth of the faith in the ideas which it announces, or pronounces.

  Erich Fromm

  Ideas, Depth, Sincerity

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism that creates the foundation for sapping democracy of any political substance and moral vitality. The predominance of the disimagination machine in American society, along with its machinery of social death and historical amnesia, seeps into in all aspects of life, suggesting that young people and others marginalized by class, race and ethnicity have been abandoned.

  Henry Giroux

  Race, Ethnicity, Class

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Things happen very quickly and they have to happen quickly in order to have vitality, which I think is essentially part of a good pot. But in addition it means that you can explore an idea and change it and then change it and then change it; I don't mean by changing the one pot, but you make one pot then you make another that's related to that; you make another - you can make 50 pots in a day and none of them are going to be carbon copies of any other, but they'll all be related because there's something going through your mind about the form on that particular day.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Mean, Thinking, Order

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.

  Alice Miller

  Depression, Pain, Opposites

  Alice Miller (1981). “The drama of the gifted child”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

  Matthew Specktor

  Thinking, Gains

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There seems also to be a tremendous risk to indigenous cultures if we insist that all scholarship be conducted in English. We are, for example, dealing with ancient and very highly-developed cultures in Korea, Japan, China and the Middle East. What is the impact on cultural and scholarly vitality forcing everyone to do their work in English? I do not have an answer, but this issue has been very much on my mind.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Impact, Japan, Korea

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

  Henry Rollins

  Rocks, People, Punk

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• Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity.

  Viola Spolin

  Creativity, Play, Mind

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• America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.

  Alistair Cooke

  Country, Race, America

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• Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Women, Blind, Creation

  'Man and Superman' (1903) act 1

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• The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Pain, Pressure

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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