#stand

The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#aspect #basic #importance #like #looks

I don't feel like I have anything to lose, so I don't really understand what I'm putting at risk. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#feel #i #like #lose #putting

I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding." ↗

— John Searle

#block #common #discussions #fancy #finds

Actually, if I could find a woman who was that wonderful; that understanding, well, I'd give her everything in the world that was in my power to give. And, I'd love her more than I ever thought it possible to love any woman. ↗

— James MacArthur

#any #could #ever #everything #find

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#excellent #first #good #intelligence #itself

The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#article #behaviour #bring #children #emotional

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#complete #complete understanding #completely #elude #everything

One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red. ↗

— Method Man

#father #freaky #girl #her #know

Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy. ↗

— Guglielmo Marconi

#committee #considered #everywhere #high #highest

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#first #ladies #problems #role #set