Groundform Quotes & Sayings

the problem is then to develop a theory of invariance with respect to arbitrary linear transformations, in which, however, in contra-distinction to the case of affine geometry, we have a definite invariant quadratic form, viz. the metrical groundform once and for all as an absolute datum. — Hermann Weyl

I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what they do in a really incredible way. — Chad Harbach

I'm a firm believer that before you can go anywhere, you have to conquer the level that you are at, just like young kids do it today with video games, they have to finish one level to go to the next one. Conquer one level at the time, and only then you'll get where you want to go to. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

I admire people who overcome obstacles or who have to commit - I've always really admired commitment, whether it be a commitment to living or a commitment to love. People who commit to a moment. People who are not somewhere else, but in the room with you. — Anne-Marie Duff

Write naked. That means to write what you would never say.
Write in blood. As if ink is so precious you can't waste it.
Write in exile, as if you are never going to get home again, and you have to call back every detail. — Denis Johnson

Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord. — Watchman Nee

She doesn't do the things heroines are supposed to. Which is rather Jane Austen's point - Fanny is her subversive heroine. She is gentle and self-doubting and utterly feminine; and given the right circumstances, she would defy an army. — Susanna Clarke

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed. — Bill Watterson

The work of Jana Harris is unique in American writing. She has always had a voice of true grit - sometimes harsh, sometimes funny, always close to the bone, tart, and indomitable. — Alicia Ostriker

Technology has always been destroying jobs, and it has always been creating jobs. — Erik Brynjolfsson

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there. — Garth Stein

The Republic of Plato is also the first treatise upon education, of which the writings of Milton and Locke, Rousseau, Jean Paul, and Goethe are the legitimate descendants. — Plato

A bird can be a bat. A bat can be a piece of floating plastic bag. Way of the world. To see things as other things. — Jeff VanderMeer