Symbols Quotes

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Tom Peters

BestMasterWithoutSymbolsLevel

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

Anselm Kiefer

BeginningMeIdeasYouNewSymbols

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

Charles Jencks

MeHouseSymbolsComplexSignVery

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

SymbolsInhabit

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.

Marvin Minsky

ProblemsNumbersSymbolsAlgebra

The ward designs were co-created by myself and Lauren K. Cannon. She read how they were described in 'The Warded Man,' and we had long discussions about what sources to draw from for the symbols, drawing inspiration from Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and Sanskrit.

Peter V. Brett

MyselfManDrawingLongSheSymbols

Everybody had posters in their room; everybody had the four symbols of Zeppelin on the wall and all that.

Alec Baldwin

WallSymbolsRoomFourEverybody

From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.

Pat Buchanan

ReligionChristianAmericaSymbols

'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is rich in raisins.

Michel Faber

RichChristmasSymbolsPuddingThing

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

Peter Zumthor

IdeasBuildingsMeanSymbolsMainly

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Margot Asquith

LifeSymbolsSignpostsImaginative

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

J. Paul Getty

SymbolsStatusOutstandingWere

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Joyce Carol Oates

PassionAuthoritySymbolsInventions

Numbers have life; they're not just symbols on paper.

Shakuntala Devi

LifeNumbersSymbolsPaperJust

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

Jacques Lacan

CommunicationManHimSymbolsMay

The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.

F. Sionil Jose

FamilyPastImportantNeverSymbols

The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

BookSymbolsRevelationWritten

The Catholic religion doesn't have conspicuous symbols.

Marine Le Pen

ReligionSymbolsCatholicConspicuous

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

George Henry Lewes

ArtLanguageThroughSymbolsAffect

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

Daniel Clowes

OpportunityEnjoySymbolsSwearUse

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

John B. S. Haldane

WordsThoughtBetterEmotionSymbols

Symbols are important. It depends on how they're used.

Chirlane McCray

ImportantSymbolsUsedHowDepends

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.

Mark Rothko

IdeasFallBackSymbolsUsedMust

I suppose that, for most of us, the fascination of conjoined twins is that such people can serve as symbols.

Darin Strauss

PeopleTwinsSymbolsServeUsMost

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