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Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Failure to distinguish clearly between the two is ruinous. Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through, so as to form correct ideas of leadership-such is the basic method of leadership.

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.

Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.

Tao is so important because it is connected to all the life forms - it's related to the whole universe. Nobody can say, "Tao has nothing to do with me. Why should I try to understand it?" because actually, Tao has everything to do with us.

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms.

Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.

That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.

[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.

That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.

That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

That which has no limitations, has no form.

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.

The ability to share whole scenes form our lives will be a valuable thing over time.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.

The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

The art form is to become one with the hurdle, to make it your friend, and I embraced that process.

The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.

The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.

The best form in which to worship God is every form.

The best form of saying is doing.

The best form of service is to uplift someone's state of mind.