Quotes of: Contemporary-life Keyword

We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.

John Eaton

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

Damien Hirst

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.

David Elliott

The more choices we have, the greater the need for focus.

50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.

Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening

Our images of God matter. Just as how we conceptualize God affects what we think the Christian life is about, so do our images of God.

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith

Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying.

50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

Thomas Mann

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

Russell M. Nelson

You see in this life. Many people know what to do. But, few people actually to do. Knowing is not enough. You must take action.

Strange Times, My Dear: The Pen Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature

I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.

Brian McKnight

Shifting the frame only slightly, the choice of a theory from among the range of always ideologically founded theories is itself necessarily ideologically motivated. Positioning is unavoidable; positioning is the result of choice from among a range o...

Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication: Exploring Contemporary Methods of Communication

I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.

Alex Kingston

So many people report to be contemporary dancers, and they're not. They are sort of jazz dancers that feel like they're throwing a bit of classical in there. I mean, a true contemporary dancer has got ballet as their base and classical ballet, and th...

Nigel Lythgoe

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.

Brian De Palma

Paul's portrayal of Jesus as Christ may sound familiar to contemporary Christians—it has since become the standard doctrine of the church—but it would have been downright bizarre to Jesus's Jewish followers. The transformation of the Nazarean int...

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.

Roberta Smith

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

Kit Williams

The (nation) state's concern had been the development of citizens - social subjects whose identity was shaped by the goals of the state - and the preparation of a labour force serving the needs of a national economy and administration. That state was...

Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication: Exploring Contemporary Methods of Communication

Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

Victor Pinchuk