On one hand you want to see your subject well. On the other hand, you want to be caught off guard to retain the spontaneity. If you know your subject too well you stop seeing it.
The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.
Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.
Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block.
The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.
I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.
One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again.
It is quite possible, and not uncommon, to read most laboriously, even so as to get by heart the words of a book, without really studying it at all,--that is, without employing the thoughts on the subject.
When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on, you are separate from it. That has become the object and you have become the subject.
I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.
Do not be vexed with those who show pride, or malice, effeminacy, and impatience in their intercourse with you, or others, but , remembering that you yourself are subject to the same and greater sins and passions, pray for them and be meek with them.
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.
When we mistake words for reality, we are subject to the tyranny of words.
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
