The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.
That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in summer, and so is every snowflake in winter. Both upwards and downwards, and all around us, science and speculation pass into mystery at last.
I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny.
no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.
Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves.
At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.
In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
Often the energy of a piece is more exciting to me than the subject.
I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life. . . The men who can't commit, who can't say 'I love you' even when they want to, who start to cough and sputter and change the subject. But here you are. A living, breathing specimen. Incredible.
I don't speak up about something unless I feel strongly about it and until I've researched a subject extensively and have an informed decision about it.
The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.
The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.
Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism.
Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it.