“Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.”
Source: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 19
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“.. he [= Michelangelo] was a good man, but he did not know how to paint.”
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The Architecture of Theories (1891)
Context: The one primary and fundamental law of mental action consists in a tendency to generalisation. Feeling tends to spread; connections between feelings awaken feelings; neighboring feelings become assimilated; ideas are apt to reproduce themselves. These are so many formulations of the one law of the growth of mind. When a disturbance of feeling takes place, we have a consciousness of gain, the gain of experience; and a new disturbance will be apt to assimilate itself to the one that preceded it. Feelings, by being excited, become more easily excited, especially in the ways in which they have previously been excited. The consciousness of such a habit constitutes a general conception.
The cloudiness of psychological notions may be corrected by connecting them with physiological conceptions. Feeling may be supposed to exist, wherever a nerve-cell is in an excited condition. The disturbance of feeling, or sense of reaction, accompanies the transmission of disturbance between nerve-cells or from a nerve-cell to a muscle-cell or the external stimulation of a nerve-cell. General conceptions arise upon the formation of habits in the nerve-matter, which are molecular changes consequent upon its activity and probably connected with its nutrition.
Björk (1965) Icelandic singer-songwriter
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On Sam's Town <br class="br">Montgomery, James (May 2, 2006). "Killers' Next LP Will Show Strong Influence Of ... Bruce Springsteen!?" http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1529924/20060501/killers_the.jhtml MTV.com Retrieved 2007-12-11
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Martin Seymour-Smith, Guide to Modern World Literature (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1975) vol. 1, p. 353.
Criticism
“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.”
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“There are two kinds of power. "Power over" is very problematical. "Power within" is very exciting.”
Ursula Goodenough (1943) American biologist
Uncommon Knowledge (2005)
Context: There are two kinds of power. "Power over" is very problematical. "Power within" is very exciting. You can tell the difference by whether you are messing with other people or not.
