Intangible Quotations

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

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.

Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized by the spirit as a soul-speech fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home whence we are now exiled, and therefore it touches a cord in our being, regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not.

The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.

As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development.

The FSB's invisible presence continued; the agency became an intangible part of my Moscow life - sometimes loudly, sometimes quietly, with someone in a back room clearly turning the volume of minor persecution up and down.

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.

But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.

To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to.

Music gives the inspiring, yet intangible beauty, a path of expression, a voice.

One of the frustrations or difficulties for us is a lot of what we do is intangible and goes back to our founding premise of blinded veterans assisting blinded veterans.

Rex has an intangible kind of thing. You can't really describe it. But it's there.

If we play great and bring an intangible package that you need, and we play well, then we'll be right in the game. Our respect level for (the Mavericks) is great, yet my respect level for my team is high. Knowing that if we do play really well that we'll be in the game, and if you're in the game you have a chance to win.

We're confident of the project proceeding and there are considerable intangible benefits to us as a fully fledged project participant.

He just has that intangible that you can't really put a word on. He's got 'it'.

I can't say enough about this team's heart and resiliency to keep overcoming adversity. They have that one intangible that wins basketball games.

From an intangible standpoint, it's about things like effort, mental toughness, the ability to stay focused and execute, and be a little relentless in the way you try to go about your work, ... We're gladiators out there. We're modern-day gladiators and that mental toughness has got to permeate your team.

What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one.... Its this in-between that Im calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible onewhich is really the realm of the artist.

He's a gifted athlete. But the intangible things come easy to him, like his poise and responding well to pressure situations.

He's a bulldog. He's one of the unsung heroes. Nobody talks about the intangible things that he brings on the floor. He's an unbelievable teammate and he's just hard-nosed.

He does all the intangible stuff. That's his biggest role in the grand scheme of things - drawing charges, getting rebounds, setting picks, diving for loose balls, putting a body on people.

We talked about the things that are necessary in order to dramatically improve this club. That was the gist of what I was trying to get across. There are intangible things that are necessary. There is a different mindset that we have to take on.

My varied listening palette is all-inclusive of all walks of life. No one individual is exempt from the human experience, so it is that intangible that is a universal truth. In that regard, I've had success in encapsulating something cosmic.

I was very, very impressed by the program at Duke, and very taken by more than just its medical approach. For me, there was the intangible that became so important, of the spiritual and emotional commitment that these programs and their doctors have.

Jerry sees things that I see. He calms the team down. With all the intangible things he brings, we're a much better team now that we've got him back.

I think people will more often than not base their decisions using a pro-forma figure, which excludes the value of the options. It is an expense, but I don't have a problem making an adjustment to eliminate it because it is a non-cash item, like other adjustments such as amortizing intangible items.

I think, from my perspective, you're asking an excellent question. It's almost efficiency at an intangible level.

We played some good teams with some good athletes, but I thought the intangible was our chemistry. There are no secrets with the X's and O's anymore, it's about guys believing in what they're doing and believing in each other. When you put your teammate before yourself and you don't want to let them down, you start playing above your head and maybe doing some things that normally you wouldn't be able to do. That's a lot of why we went 11-2.

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

The protection of intangible cultural heritage and maintaining the continuity of the national culture constitute an essential cultural base for enhancing cohesion in the nation.

When half of the team is the pitching staff, there are some intangible things that are important. We can sit here and talk about hitting all we want. But that won't help the other part that is vitally necessary to the success of the Major League team, and that's the interaction that takes place between two guys 60 feet, six inches away from one another. That's just as important as anybody's batting average.

We still feel there's something intangible that connects all the music. Lots of people, regardless of the song, can hear it and know that it's Gram Rabbit.

The real magic is in making the intangible idea, the creative impulse, manifest and live in our reality.

Maybe its time we get a toolbox that doesnt just count whats easily counted, the tangible in life, but actually counts what we most value, the things that are intangible.

Every day, decision makers in developing countries are faced with difficult choices regarding the exploitation of natural resources and the environmental impacts of development programmes and policies. But the tools currently being used are leaving out the natural resources stocks and intangible capital such as knowledge and skills.

We've had a lot of adversity, and I think losing Tiffany was pretty much the final straw tonight. The one intangible that we've been missing with this team is they haven't understood how to stay connected with adversity.

A year ago he was just trying to play and not make mistakes. This year you've seen not just his improvement on the football field but in the other intangible things also.

I usually operate on an intuitive level. I just saw something in this kid's eyes. It's an intangible thing. But there was a spark there, something I just responded to.

In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.

In Jesus' life from the Father, in the immediacy and closeness of his association with him in prayer and indeed face to face, he is God's witness, through whom the intangible has become tangible, the distant has drawn near.

I'm sure he brings some toughness and even some leadership to that group. When you have a guy like that, where you gain some of the intangible things that we gain from a Graham Brown, they're invaluable to your team.

Indian incense offers a physical, psychological and spiritual link between our tangible world and the intangible realms beyond our senses.

In Florida, there is no income tax but there is an intangible tax, so they will be able to deduct both.

In education we call it the hidden curriculum, which is the intangible - the friendships, relationships and good times - and we celebrate those first. It just so happens we?re playing for first place, but win or lose, when we wake up Friday, we?re going to go to practice and continue to work hard.

Intangible assets are not subject to taxation in Michigan.

I'm drawn to the unconventional because I've been drawn unconventionally. I believe that I'm supposed to topple over these false images of what's idealistically beautiful. Because, of course, these intangible qualities are very attractive to women. Sincerity. Sense of humor. Success.

The benefits are almost intangible but there's so much to it. It is almost an addiction in the sense that it fulfills so many aspects of being alive, being human. Kids benefit especially adolescents because they're so in touch with their emotions. But these kids are still malleable-they aren't so set that they can't break out of their shell.

I want to say by being consistent, but that really doesn't say anything, does it? I guess I don't really know. I don't know how you can guarantee something like that, an intangible like being consistent. But I know if we're not consistent, we're not going to win this series.

It's tough to put a kid in that role. He certainly has that going for him. He can be one of those guys that does all those intangible things.

The camera is a way of making an intangible experience more real. It's certainly real for us. We're on this trading desk all day, so we're inviting people to visit with us.

If you think of the market value of all of the corporations that trade on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq, the vast majority of the value of those businesses is tied up in intangible assets and intellectual property. It's because of that -- that these values are primarily intangible and intellectual -- that the need for this specialized area is coming about.

He's shown in a lot of areas how he's matured. You see him in the halls, you watch his focus in the classroom. He's coming off his best semester ever academically. He gets it now. It's one of those intangible rewards you get as a teacher or coach when you see a young man and the light bulb turns on.

He's really good at getting the ball to guys who are open and guys who have the hot hand. He's a very good defensive player. He does a lot of intangible things.

They bring a great energy and keep everyone young and fresh. It can get monotonous if you have the same regime. It brings an intangible that might have been missing.

They know the tangible. It's showing them the intangible that will make them leave here feeling different, at least for a few hours, if not for a few days. I get emotional. I'm very emotional when I look at the night sky.

ACE's own experience as underwriters of specialist network risk insurance shows that businesses believe their traditional property and liability programmes will cover losses. But generally they do not cover damage to intangible assets, which leaves companies vulnerable. Business must recognise that transferring the risks to vehicles such as specialist technology insurance products will reduce their exposure to significant financial losses.

They get along with each other and Brian does a good job keeping them together. There's been other teams with as much talent, maybe more, but they didn't have that intangible - something there's no stats for.

There were some games when we were on the road and I didn't think we had the right attitude. Did we have the right energy? Was the season wearing us down? I don't know. It's sort of an intangible thing.

It's an intangible thing, this thing we call talent, especially if we're in a position to teach and mentor others.

He brings experience, leadership and special intangible qualities that we're hopeful of guiding our offense in the end zone.

It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on specific occasions, or both all the time.

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

A song is the most intangible thing in the world.

Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.

The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

Class is an intangible quality which commands, rather than demands, the respect of others.

Desire is the intangible quality that has more impact on success than talent, education, or IQ. You can't see desire, but you can feel its presence, and see its results in the lives of successful people.