External Appearance Quotes

• One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts. When, in disgust or discouragement, we allow ourselves to reach depressive levels of despair because of our demeaning self-appraisal, it is a sad day for us and a sad day in the eyes of God. For us to conclude that we have no gifts when we judge ourselves by stature, intelligence, grade-point average, wealth, power, position, or external appearance is not only unfair but unreasonable.

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  Marvin J. Ashton

  Eye   Self   Average  

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• We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.

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  Fred Hoyle

  Differences   Long   Today  

  "Lifecloud: The Origin of Life in the Universe". Book by Chandra Wickramasinghe and Fred Hoyle (p. 15), 1978.

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• Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, but also, and chiefly, in the tempo of life and in the techniques related to the daily, mechanical functions of life; namely standing, walking, driving, to lying and sitting - in short, every action which determines the content of architecture.

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  Theo van Doesburg

  Lying   Expression   Technique  

  "Painting and plastic art". De Stijl, series XIII, 73-4, pp. 17 - 18, 1926.

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• Emancipation can only come from within; it cannot be dictated by someone else. A law banning the wearing of headscarves changes nothing, except perhaps external appearance. Naturally, Islamic feminism must also include the right to education, to work and the freedom to select one's own husband.

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  Tariq Ramadan

  Husband   Islamic   Law  

  "'They Live in a Bleak, Devastated Universe'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 14, 2005.

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• The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.

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  Fritz Todt

  Construction Projects   Appearance   Socialist  

  "Deutsche Technik", May 1938.

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• Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.

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  Samuel Johnson

  Men   Quality   Coins  

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.143

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• Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.

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  Peter Behrens

  Thinking   Looks   Appearance  

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• The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time. Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades. Streets and highways carry the name of the Führer. Settlements today are not isolated communities, but rather parts of greater city-construction plans. Every work site must be properly located within its neighborhood and surrounding setting (i.e., the natural world).

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  Fritz Todt

  Construction Projects   Cities   Names  

  "Deutsche Technik", p. 209, May 1938.

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• Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

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  Samuel Butler

  Integrity   Grateful   Character  

  Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Butler, William Morris (2014). “The Utopia MEGAPACK ®: 20 Classic Utopian and Dystopian Works”, p.31, Wildside Press LLC

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• I always look at that stuff as something that's not a separate entity from the music but a visual representation of the music. I feel like your external appearance should be in harmony with your internal appearance. That's mainly our approach to the visuals.

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  Taraka Larson

  Looks   Stuff   Like You  

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

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  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Witty   Character   Imagination  

  "The Early Political Writings of the German Romantics" edited by Frederick C. Beiser, (p. 131), 1996.

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