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  • What is great about entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs create the tangible from the intangible. -- Robert Herjavec
  • Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. -- Kenneth Branagh
  • It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate. -- Donald Trump
  • If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. -- Charley Reese
  • Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life. -- Pope Francis
  • It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment. -- Honore de Balzac
  • If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you. -- Martha Beck
  • The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. -- Wilhelm Reich
  • The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire. -- Leigh Hunt
  • Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God. -- Jerry Bridges
  • Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. -- Hosea Ballou
  • Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. -- M. F. K. Fisher
  • The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. -- Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
  • Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible. -- Bruce Lee
  • I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it. -- Bob Ehrlich
  • A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone. -- Edward R. Murrow
  • Presents are the best way to show someone how much you care. It is like this tangible thing that you can point to and say, Hey man, I love you this many dollars-worth. -- Michael Scott
  • Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself. -- Billy Joel
  • The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment. -- T. Harv Eker
  • Peace is something tangible. It silences the outgoing energy of the mind and feeds the aspiring heart. Peace is not merely the absence of quarreling and fighting. True peace is not affected by the roaring of the world, outer or inner. This sea of peace is at our command if we practise the spiritual life. -- Sri Chinmoy
  • Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • I learned that surrounding myself with people who are able to help me is like being surrounded by tangible godliness. -- Jada Pinkett Smith
  • A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. -- Sol LeWitt
  • The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality. -- Dane DeHaan
  • I've always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I'm tangible and they can talk to me and they know me. -- Hulk Hogan
  • I want people to see a real person on the ice. I want to seem tangible, hard-working, passionate about my skating, not just going out and doing something I've rehearsed a million times. -- Ashley Wagner
  • I have an affection for tangible objects, like books and pages, but people sure do seem to love their Kindles! We're definitely in the middle of a revolution that will determine how people find, read, and experience stories. -- Katherine Center
  • The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today. -- Edgar Winter
  • The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it. -- Frank Gehry
  • I have an iPod, but I do still love CDs. There's something nice and tangible about a CD. I'm a mixture of old and new - I love my sewing machine, but I've also embraced new technology. The iPad is what did it for me - it's extraordinary. -- Twiggy
  • I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles. -- Jack White
  • A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens. -- Cameron Sinclair
  • Hosting the Olympic Games of course guarantees the world's attention, but there is more to it than simply bathing in the global spotlight. Most importantly, host cities can use the opportunity to create a positive and lasting legacy, resulting in both tangible and intangible returns to local communities. -- Eduardo Paes
  • Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else. -- Sarah McLachlan
  • Being asked to describe what 'post-racial' means is a bit like being asked to describe a leprechaun, cold fusion or unicorns: we know what is meant, but, if we are willing to be honest, we also know that none of the four describe something real, something tangible, something true. -- Tim Wise
  • Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law. -- Ban Ki-moon
  • Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground. -- Abdallah II of Jordan
  • I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights. -- Ban Ki-moon
  • Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means. -- P. T. Barnum
  • Memories are less tangible than dreams. -- Isadora Duncan
  • I don't think I'm tangible to myself. -- Bob Dylan
  • Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity. -- Bayard Taylor
  • Experience and wisdom are more tangible than materialism. -- Unarine Ramaru
  • Your inner-most dominant thoughts become your outer-most tangible reality. -- John Frederick Demartini
  • Both must make tangible, immediate steps toward this vision. -- George H. W. Bush
  • Love always requires tangible expression. It needs hands and feet. -- Richard Stearns
  • Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality. -- James A. Garfield
  • Dreams are vague and far away. Goals are tangible and achievable. -- Robin Roberts
  • June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible. -- Gladys Taber
  • I've had several really tangible dreams about UFOs, and they've been amazing! -- Martin Freeman
  • When it comes to your talent, translate the intangible into the tangible. -- Don Maruska
  • The tangible source of exploitation disappears behind the façade of objective rationality. -- Herbert Marcuse
  • I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities. -- Fernando Pessoa
  • It becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete. -- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
  • THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance. -- Wallace D. Wattles
  • The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present. -- John Ruskin
  • Happiness is not a tangible thing, it's a byproduct - a byproduct of achievement. -- Ray Kroc
  • We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles that surround us. -- Umberto Boccioni
  • When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes. -- Eliot Spitzer
  • I was born rich. Not in tangible things... but rich in the parents I had. -- Ross Perot
  • Our thought is the unseen magnet, ever attracting its correspondence in things seen and tangible. -- Prentice Mulford
  • Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul. -- Jada Pinkett Smith
  • My disinterest in your bullshit is so tangible you could make bricks out of it -- Scott Lynch
  • I believe in characters that can be tangible, and that you can actually relate to. -- Demian Bichir
  • I love jewellery, and the idea of having something you've created become tangible is really exciting. -- Nikki Reed
  • The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible. -- Bruce Lee
  • Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth. -- Abraham Cahan
  • It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible. -- Georges Braque
  • Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • A man is always devoted to something more tangible than a woman - the idea of her. -- Bauvard
  • Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • The magic that works, to me, is the magic that feels completely grounded and real and tangible. -- J. J. Abrams
  • Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same. -- PZ Myers
  • I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible. -- Edward Abbey
  • A leader's responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world. -- Henry Cloud
  • Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have. -- Richard Connell
  • Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour. -- Nina Blackwood
  • It will be better to spent our energy on reality; the tangible facts, not thoughts of the past. -- Durgesh Satpathy
  • When I write, I make my memories tangible, and in this way I can get rid of them. -- Jorge Semprun
  • The struggles and challenges that come before winning any tangible prize are the things that make it very valuable. -- Edmond Mbiaka
  • Every skill, every talent, every capacity, and every ability of the mind are really the Soul-action made visibly tangible. -- Joel S. Goldsmith
  • There is something more to "reality" than just the tangible. There is also mood, and you cannot skip that. -- Vilmos Zsigmond
  • Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century. -- David Rockefeller
  • Don't wait for perfection before you start. Start somewhere so you can have something tangible you can work to perfect. -- Simon Sinek
  • The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat. -- Howard Berman
  • I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that. -- Hawa Abdi
  • When I set goals, they're more tangible than becoming famous. You don't build a company or a foundation for fame. -- Boris Kodjoe
  • The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world. -- James A. Baldwin
  • We live in such a digital age. Paper is going out of our lives. A poem on paper is tangible. -- Peleg Top
  • I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible. -- Zoe Saldana
  • Our age is before all things a practical one. It demands of us all clear and tangible results of our work. -- Theodor Svedberg
  • Yeah it feels a bit more tangible, I suppose, even though you're in a green box for part of the time. -- Jeremy Renner
  • Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations. -- Adrienne Rich
  • However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment. -- Tim Holden
  • The costs of poor quality are tangible; they will cost you customers and money, and ultimately affect the success of your business. -- Subir Chowdhury
  • More than any other super-hero, 'Spider-Man' presents us with something very local in its ethics. It's not messianic. It's far more tangible. -- Rhys Ifans
  • ..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms. -- Nirmala Srivastava
  • A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes ... -- Roberta Flack
  • Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible. -- Hakim Bey
  • Many of the most powerful things in life are not tangible. All it takes is for you to close your eyes to see. -- Shannon L. Alder
  • Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy. -- Marilynne Robinson
  • The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour. -- Maya Angelou
  • The World Health Organization is now studying Russia's experience, i.e. how we managed to produce tangible results in such a short time -- Veronika Skvortsova
  • The dreams you craft at the level of your soul are very different from goals, which are tangible, measurable and set the future. -- Alberto Villoldo
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  • Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us. -- Haruki Murakami
  • A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage. -- Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves. -- Joyce Johnson
  • The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in Lawless. John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality. -- Dane DeHaan
  • More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power. -- Jimmy Hoffa
  • Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. Itâ??s not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action. -- Annie Lobert
  • I have been taking some classes in woodworking. It's really helpful just looking at a problem, and having a very tangible way in constructing it. -- Luke Kirby
  • Coloring is very relaxing for one thing. And I think adults like to unplug from technology for awhile and do something tangible with their hands. -- Alan Robert
  • Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research. -- I. Bernard Cohen
  • We're trying to be the top employer of recent grads in the country. Size gives us leverage to have a tangible impact on school systems. -- Wendy Kopp
  • There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay. -- Ben Mendelsohn
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