#familia

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. ↗

— Anais Nin

#cease #familiar #function #magic #meaning

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#familiar #first #form #had #publisher

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#familiar #hold #language #picture #regardless

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cannot #deeply #enough #enough people #familiar

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition. ↗

— Cyril Falls

#contrary #ensure #leadership #necessary #particularly

It was determined, as shown in the report of the Commission, which I can read to you, but I know you are familiar with the report. It states there was disagreement on this issue, particularly as the subject was debated, that there were different opinions about it. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#commission #debated #determined #different #different opinions

I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#enjoy #familiar #feelings #getting #going

In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get. ↗

— Umberto Guidoni

#before #complex #driving #familiar #get

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. ↗

— Hippocrates

#clearness #detracts #language #much #nothing

If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#anything #been #conscience #country #direction