If the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained.
Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold
Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.
It came to my mind that in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, in Indian spiritual literature, and in the Bhagavad Gita, and when I started reading about outstanding yogis and people of exceeding spiritual power such as Ramana Maharshi, or Yogananda, they all had the ability to do what we would call - I don't know what you would even call it - psychic phenomenon, magic, transform objects, be able to perceive the future, the past and the present simultaneously.
Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics - this is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence.
I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked.
It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.
I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes.
I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.
Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air.
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.
Capital punishment. . . treats members of the human race. . . as objects to be toyed with and discarded.
You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something!
. . . all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in accordance with God's Will.
Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects.
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.
I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued.