Indirect – Quotes

I am not quite

I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets. Erica Jong

Criticism is an indirect

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. Emmet Fox

So long as the

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect. Ellen Glasgow

I hope to make

I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desert—under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that is essentially indirect and sideways.Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home–not by story or blood but … Read more

Physiologists should think before

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength–life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results. Friedrich Nietzsche

Sound is your friend

Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience – in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way. Francis Ford Coppola

It has yet to

It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code. Francis Crick

One thing must be

One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included in a canonical list; on the contrary, the Church included them in her canon because she already regarded them as divinely inspired, recognizing their innate worth and generally apostolic authority, direct or indirect. … Read more

I have a position

I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power. Drew Carey

The paraphrase of Gödel’s

The paraphrase of Gödel’s Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction. Douglas Hofstadter