#meaning

'Mysticism' here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#meaning #mysticism #change

I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting. ↗

— Halle Berry

#career #ever #get #i #meaningful

I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#exchanges #i #know #meaningful #most

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion. ↗

— Emily Carr

#absolutely #attached #depicting #detail #every

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#both #eye #fact #forms #fraction

This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#challenging #get #humans #into #know

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No." ↗

— Aaron Copland

#asking #many #meaning #music #problem

Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!' ↗

— Jo Ann Davis

#answer #ask #busy #cheerful #course

There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves. ↗

— John M. Ford

#every #forth #ideas #meanings #out

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#apply #build #evil #good #how