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self creative tone
Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable. Bela Bartok
self abandon one-thing
The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self. Bede Griffiths
self self-respect world
Learn to live in this world with self-respect B. R. Ambedkar
self society devil
Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. B. H. Liddell Hart
selfish damn-you ideas
I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought! B. F. Skinner
self behavior given
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.
self knowing done
I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, "Why are you being calculated?" Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect. Billy Corgan
self decision behavior
To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors. Bill Crawford
self-confidence keys knowing
The key to self-confidence is knowing that you would choose you... and why. In this way the chosen becomes the chooser, and love versus fear becomes the energy of choice.
longer matter relief weeks
Our relief is not going to be a matter of weeks and months, but probably much longer than that. Phil Zepeda
longer message misery payoff remain suffering terms
Our message is that suffering years of misery to remain super-skinny is not going to have a big payoff in terms of a longer life.
longer people seem shocked
People no longer seem shocked by expressions of overt bigotry, David Friedman
longer looking planets prior stars start terms
Stars we're looking at here are prior to the formation of planets, we think, but it's not going to be very much longer in astronomical terms before planets start forming.
longer mean monitor
Some of the things you monitor no longer mean the same thing.
long periods long-periods-of-time
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything. Beck
long chance i-loved-you
I loved you long before you loved me. It's the only thing I have you beat at, and I'll bring it up every chance I get. Becca Fitzpatrick
long political quality
'Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery. Can anyone expect that a step of this kind will improve the quality of our long-term investments?' Barry Ritholtz
long people trying
My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people. Barry Lopez
machines littles helpful
Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better. Benoit Mandelbrot
machines robot
If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action. Shawn Levy
machines lines information
Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. Charles Babbage
machines aids arise
As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?
machines language assembly
I started out with machine code and assembly language. Charles Petzold
machines eating programming
Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick
machines who-we-are being-human
For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become. Carol Ann Duffy
machines hours conscious
We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless. Alan Lightman
machines different unix
C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new Dennis Ritchie