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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop. Aaron Huey

Somewhere Abstract Between Wanted Pop Painter Expressionism

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value. Ada Lovelace

Truth Mathematics Science Value Own More Abstract Operations Itself Derived

Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests. Ada Lovelace

Science Everyday Strictly Analytical Those Rather Bear Abstract Feel Perhaps Involving Powers Questions Very Than May Human Ordinary Interests Engine Views Who Incline Utilitarian Speculative Peculiar

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint. Adolph Gottlieb

Nature Think Point Never Abstract Use Paint Starting Starting Point

I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world. Andrea Barrett

The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind. Anna Todd

Mind Beginning Abstract Idea Option Being In The Beginning Even Published Thing

We are not a single-issue party that puts abstract policy ahead of the working lives of people. We are not bitter, frightened xenophobes. Anthony Albanese

People Party Bitter Puts Abstract Policy Frightened Working Lives

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism. Barbara Hepworth

Space Pleasure Purpose Abstract Most Piercing Make Felt Doing Intense Stone Quite Sensation Different Order Form Realism

A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target. Brad Feld

I like the fact that music is more abstract. Bryan Ferry

Music More Fact Abstract Like

Someone will write a resolution that says, 'I want to exercise more,' or 'I want to lose 15 pounds' - which is great, that's a great goal to have - but every study tells us that if you pose things in abstract, goal-related terms, it's much less likely that you will accomplish it than if you structure it as an actual activity. Charles Duhigg

Great You Will Lose Every Says Tells Someone Structure More Write Pounds Abstract Study Likely Terms Exercise Accomplish Goal Than Want Which Us Much Less Activity Actual Things Pose Resolution

I have enormous affection for Bill Simmons and not just in an abstract way but a very specific way. Chris Connelly

Affection Enormous Way Abstract Very Just Bill Specific

Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it. Christina Romer

Deficit Deficit Reduction Details Enthusiastic About More Risky Abstract Voters Talk Reduction Accomplishing Than Notion Painful Honest

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short. Clive James

Good Confusion Way Abstract She Same Short Being Midget Playing

When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me. Damien Hirst

Great Me School Else Everyone Neglect Everyone Else Kind Would Colour Abstract Stuff Like Make Because Said Always Came Going Formal Curtains Used Tutor Naturally Using Paintings

I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion. Damon Galgut

Service Memory Generation People Young Military Changed Distant Abstract Idea Another How How Much Up Just Apartheid Young People Much Notion Fascinated Growing Military Service Whom Growing Up Now

Across a range of inferences involving not just language but mathematics, logic problems, and spatial reasoning, sleep has been shown to enhance the formation and understanding of abstract relations, so much so that people often wake having solved a problem that was unsolvable the night before. Daniel Levitin

Mathematics People Problem Problems Language Understanding Before Relations Range Has-Been Logic Solved Having Abstract Unsolvable Involving Been Wake Inference Often Just Formation Much Across Spatial Reasoning Shown Enhance Night Sleep

Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else who contributed something that was original. Certainly in the way that I described visualizing numbers in abstract, meaningful shapes. Daniel Tammet

Become Else Way Van Van Gogh Would Visualizing Someone Something Shapes Abstract Does Go Same Gogh Anyone Anyone Else Mozart Meaningful Certainly Who Original Therefore Copies Numbers

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness. David Bohm

Reality Older Kind Some Unbroken Prevails Sees Features Recovers Abstract Drops Thus New Most New Kind Commitments Essential Which Forms Theories Derived Theory Wholeness Deeper Basic Needed

I don't think that photorealism is required to offer emotions. You can have very abstract characters and renderings offering the same type of emotions - look at Pixar movies: they're not photorealistic; they're stylised, and it doesn't prevent emotion from happening. David Cage

You Emotions Think Type Characters Prevent Emotion Abstract Look Very Offer Offering Same Happening Pixar Movies Required

We live on a planet of limited resources - an abstract notion for some of the world's population, but for many of the poorest and most vulnerable, those limits are all too real. David Harewood

World Live Too Resources Those Some Abstract Most Vulnerable Limited Limited Resources Real Limits Planet Poorest Notion Many Population

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