To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, welcome, to accept.
There are still substantial areas of disagreement,. . you simply have to look at the public statements to see there is a significant gap.
I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.
Key statements made by latter-day prophets are not trite clichés. They are vital counsel to us from the Lord through his prophets. We should ponder and act upon such statements.
How you look is your statement, because it's a claiming of yourself.
In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can usually be analysed, but not always, nor always without remainder.
I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.
I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.
There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.
The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts. . . things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.
There was a period that black film had no chance of making it in Hollywood. So, people just made the made the statements that they wanted to make. Whether it was a science fiction film or whatever, bc they were just making movie for themselves. Then there was a period where people were creating projects as their Hollywood audition 'pieces'. I feel that today we are moving back to the era where we all have our own voices.
People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and I'm not really.
The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy
When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty - some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.
I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.
I like to stand out and make a statement.
That complete statement which is literature.
That," he whispered, "is unthinkable. " In Mosca’s experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.
Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
Obviously, I've made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that's the way I always was.
