Relativity Quotes Page 2

The IKEA spirit is strong and living reality.

Simplicity in our behavior gives us strength. Simplicity and humbleness characterize us in our relations with each others, our suppliers and our customers.

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

Sometimes we maintain silence to protect a beautiful relation, but we forget, too much silence creates distance in every beautiful relation.

The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightening and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees, ~~ all these have voices, and they constitute a community of existence that is profoundly related.

It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.

You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.

It is not happy people who are thankful. It is thankful people who are happy.

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else;

for, whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middlegame and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.

As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

A true friend is the only person who never gets tired of listening to your own pointless dramas over and over again.

Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.

I believe that the unity of mind and body is an objective reality.

They are not just parts somehow related to each other, but an inseparable whole while functioning. A brain without a body could not think.

You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God.

Drama is life with the dull bits left out.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see it as an expression of identity combined with desire, moods and a cultural setting.

When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself.

Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.

The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.

Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.

Remember: In the end, you're not living to impress your friends or your relatives or your coworkers. All of life is for Jesus.

I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.

We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles.

Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.

There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught;

no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

The reason why wicked men and devils hate God is, because they see Him in relation to themselves. Their hearts rise up in rebellion, because they see Him opposed to their selfishness.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners who are leading the fight for justice and better race relations in these crucial days

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.

In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't change when you bend it or stretch it as long as you don't break anything.

I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.

When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And "propaganda" got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the word "councelor of public relations".

It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically.

We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to the maxima and minima, thus showing that there is a simple relation between the brightness of the variables and their periods.

If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words.