Material Focus Quotes

My mind on my money, my money on my mind.

The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.

We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really good at talking about material things, really bad at talking about emotions, really good at stuff we can count, really bad at the deeper stuff that actually drives behavior.

I just really try to stay focused on what the material is wanting to do. My basic assumption is that no one will ever listen to it anyway. It's fidelity to the material. That's my contract: It's me and the material. And if it connects with other people, I'm thrilled.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one.

How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!

If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.

I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.