Quotes of: Material-wealth Keyword

Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

Gavin DeGraw

I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.

Colin Quinn

Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

Annie Jump Cannon

Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

Alan Ladd

Sometimes you make a connection with a writer or a piece of material, and there's not much to ask.

Peter Riegert

A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities.

Sara Sheridan

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Walead Beshty

I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.

Wanda Sykes

Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.

Antony Beevor

I tend to be conversational and loose with dialogue in general, not out of disrespect for the source material but because that's the way I work.

Clark Duke

It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am.

Donnie Wahlberg

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

Mao Zedong

Even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task; it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction – purpose and dignity – that afflicts us all. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and ...

The Happiness Manifesto

We used to think God made us in His image, and that meant we were special, until science told us we just evolved that way because it suited a landscape of trees and savannas. That's what science does: it says, look again and you'll see . But economic...

Jack Glass

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised how much pleasure you get from material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to...

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

The Challenge is to pry Bertie loose from Dain and his circle of oafish dengenerates,” Jessica said severely. “It would be far more profitable to pry Dain loose for yourself,” said her grandmother. “He is very wealthy, his lineage is excellen...

Lord of Scoundrels

Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea — whether it’s about politics or sports — what do we do? We love it perhaps more than we should. We prize it more than it is wor...

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

In the social production which men carry on they enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will; these relations of production correspond to a definite stage of development of their material powers of production. T...

Preface and Introduction to a Contribution to the Critque of Political Economy

I've said you can actually this fusion in skilled mechanics and machinists of a certain sort, and you can see it in the work they do. To say that they are not artists is to misunderstand the nature of art. They have patience, care and attentiveness t...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

All civilizations we know about have left a record of their history in material things. We know them through tablets or ruins dug up by archaeologists. But we know of the Jews in ancient times mostly from the ideas they taught and the impact which th...

Max I. Dimont