Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini. — Paul Muldoon
Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created. — Ida Rolf
Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created. — Ida P. Rolf
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. — Samuel Beckett
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. — Leo Burnett
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. — Richard Rogers
Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space. — Joan Mitchell
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. — Jean Cocteau
Every photograph is a battle of form versus content. — Garry Winogrand
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. — Le Corbusier
Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached. — Jasper Johns
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. — Bruce Lee
Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit. — James Clear
I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way. — Randy Castillo
Incentives can start a habit. Identity sustains a habit. — James Clear
The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience. — Jacques Lacan
I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format. — Dick Bruna
Investment is somewhat like cricket, where you change your game plan as per the format. — Vijay Kedia
Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation. — Maria Montessori
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. — W. Eugene Smith
It’s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation. — Georges St-Pierre
One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion. — Kin Hubbard
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Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture. — Charles Colson
A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of much of the excess food that is currently contributing to leachate and methane formation in landfills. — Carol Browner
I anticipated all the changes in jazz because they were all problematical things, that I was dealing with myself. In New York in the late '50s, there were a lot of experiments being made on how to avoid playing popular standards and how to get improvising out of those constricting formats. — Paul Bley
I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in. — Ian MacKaye
You have to create different things, either through lighting or changing the format of the songs and how you're going to sing them, and even sometimes props. — Mary J. Blige
I'll also listen to music on a Discman and realize how nice it can sound when it's not compressed to MP3 format. — Alexis Taylor
Every time I meet people working in radio, I'm a little embarrassed. It's all pre-programmed, rigidly formatted stuff. Time and time again, when I talk to jocks, they say how jealous they are of the freedom we have on WKRP. I sometimes have to explain to them that it's not a real radio station. — Howard Hesseman
I like television medium because it feels like we're doing a play, and I learned how to act in theater school, so that comes very naturally to me, this format. I like that people can laugh out loud when we're working. I like that we can make mistakes, unlike being onstage, where you can't. — Judy Greer
I can apply myself to the format of 'SNL,' I can apply myself to the format of 'Conan,' but at the same time, I'm still being J. B. Smoove. I'm not changing up my style, I'm not changing up how I think, what's funny to me, my delivery, the way I carry myself. — J. B. Smoove
It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know how to integrate spiritual formation within its academic disciplines. — Henri Nouwen
Formative Years Quotes
Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me. — Chris Noth
I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have the confidence that I have if I wasn't born here, because growing up here I knew I could become anybody I wanted to become. There was no ceiling on top of me. — Michael Lee-Chin
I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to understand things. — Jawaharlal Nehru
I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years. — Linus Pauling
I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything. — Gary Neville
I think it was interesting that when you're in those formative years you respond to things that interest you and don't always know where they lead. But they accumulate and add up to something that enriches your later life or leads you to some new experience. — Paul Smith
I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school. — Nick Clegg
The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it. — Lance Burton
Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will. — Steven Soderbergh
Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format. — Ian MacKaye
In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being — Nikola Tesla
The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart. — Dallas Willard
I only debate with serious political youth formations. Not a group of the racist Helen Zille's garden boys. — Julius Malema
The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process. — Walter Cronkite
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. — Hosea Ballou
Lets replace all references in manuscripts with DOIs & eliminate the tyranny of reference formatting. — Lee Cronin
No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws. — Thaddeus Stevens
Left-nostril breathing shifts blood flow to the opposite side of the prefrontal cortex, the right area that plays a role in creative thought, emotions, formation of mental abstractions, and negative emotions. — James Nestor
We're professionals and we made a pact to each other when we created the show that if we ever felt it was getting stale or repetitious or not pushing the format in new and interesting ways, we would stop doing it. — James Murray
The effects of the legacy media and Big Tech promote clear psychological manipulation, which has deeply distorted public-health policy. The Davos oligarchs have demonstrated their gross incompetence to all the world over the last two years. I sincerely believe that we can break through the effects of the madness of crowds, the mass formation. — Robert W. Malone
The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music. — Bobby Vinton
The only legitimate use for a glove is to cover an injury... A desire to prevent callus formation (possibly so as to not snag one's pantyhose) does not constitute a legitimate use. And if you do insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse. — Mark Rippetoe
The thing that we like about our show is that it's our take on a kind of format. It's a hidden camera comedy show where we don't even call it a 'prank show' because we're made to fool each other and our friends. — Joe Gatto
A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their feelings, and think it only right. The will is then left at the mercy of circumstances that evoke feelings. Christian spiritual formation today must squarely confront this fact and overcome it. — Dallas Willard
Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself. — Dallas Willard
In 1949, Washington led the formation of NATO and with it effectively assumed command of the Western world’s surviving military might. The civilian head may well be a Belgian one year, a Brit the next, but the military commander is always an American, and by far the greatest firepower within NATO is American. No matter what the treaty says, NATO’s Supreme Commander ultimately answers to Washington. The UK and France would learn this at their expense during the Suez Crisis of 1956 — when they were compelled by American pressure to cease their occupation of the canal zone, losing most of their influence in the Middle East as a result — that a NATO country does not hold a strategic naval policy without first asking Washington. — Tim Marshall
Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed. — Hedi Slimane
There is no reason why agreement on particular points should not be both possible and advantageous to the so-called neutrals and to one or more of the blocs, either existing or in the process of formation, within the League of Nations. — Hjalmar Branting
The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education. — Maria Montessori
The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of
technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it. — Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony. — Ruth Bernhard
Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit. — William Pollard
Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical. — Dylan Moran
The computers in Atlantis were infinitely evolved as opposed to what we see today. The science, the technology, everything was really done with light. All processing was done with light, with crystal formations and structures. Electricity is much too slow. — Frederick Lenz
A lot of the ketogenic diets out there are artificial ones and they impose an artificial condition, which is high animal fat and high animal protein butter and bacon. You can very quickly go from something very good to something very bad, which doesn’t appear as very bad when you first do it. It could be that when you do it you lose weight and you think,”I feel good. I’m losing weight.” And then eventually you could start having kidney damage, negative effects on IGF-1, atherosclerosis, plaque formation, etc. A lot of these ketogenic diets come from nowhere, but they keto promoters are able to convince hundreds of thousands of people to do it. — Valter Longo
Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick. — Steve Bull
Man is really not freeing many aspects. He is dependent on his social circumstances, but he is free in his thinking, and here is the point of origin of sculpture. For me the formation of the thought is already sculpture. The thought is sculpture. — Joseph Beuys
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. — John Dewey
As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is. — LeVar Burton
I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it. You never see yourself as others do but I've always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me. — George Jones
My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many things have happened. — Augusto Pinochet
I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners. — Hayao Miyazaki
The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form. — Maimonides
A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force. — Francis Parker Yockey
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