- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foreground Quotes
What gets pushed to the front, and what stays behind it.
These foreground quotes use the word two ways: literally, as wartime armament policy pushed to the foreground of national priorities, and psychologically, as the sky-and-cloud image for living alongside depression without being consumed by it.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Discredit
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- Nov 07, 2020
However much in the foreground depression feels, you are separate to it. This is going to sound cheesy, but I'd say you are the sky. A cloud comes and dominates the sky. But the sky is still the sky. Depression tells you everything is going to get worse, but that's a symptom. Don't give depression power - constantly discredit it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disguising your own origins is a deeply American impulse, but that doesn't make it any less compromising. The way I live my life is to try to foreground the tensions and paradoxes of being a white person who's interested in racial justice and reconciliation, rather than disguise or obliterate them.
- Certain Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting.
- Elegance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human thinking can skip over a great deal, leap over small misunderstandings, can contain ifs and buts in untroubled corners of the mind. But the machine has no corners. Despite all the attempts to see the computer as a brain, the machine has no foreground or background.
- Background
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.
- Cognitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on.
- Background
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020