Max Heindel

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.

Danish Celebrity

Punit Renjen

Leaders who understand the importance of the intangible elements contributing to workplace culture become sensitive to what makes their organization truly special. That is how they define core values and beliefs that are unique, simple, leader-led, repetitive, and embedded - transforming themselves from good to exceptional.

Indian Businessman

Steven Knight

Making a film is hard because you're not dealing with the intangible. When you're writing, it's perfect because it's only in your head and then you have to take it into the physical world and that's where things drop off and things fall apart and you have to fix them.

English Director

CeeLo Green

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.

American Musician

Noreena Hertz

Goodwill and reputation are intangibles, but they are the keys to business success. Since they are also inexorably linked to social values, it follows that a change in social norms will have a significant impact on profits.

English Author

Sarah Lancashire

When you pretend for a living and you have to pretend in your private life as well, it's very sad. Because it's intangible, depression is an issue that people don't like to talk about. It's like a huge, guilty secret.

British Actress

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

Italian Statesman

Shweta Basu Prasad

Love is poetry. To fall in love with a person is like understanding a deep, moving poem. Noticing every little detail. To see what the poet shows, to smell what he describes and the urge to taste the intangible.

Indian Actress

Nate Silver

People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

American Writer

Jimmie Davis

A song is the most intangible thing in the world.

American Politician

Think beyond objects; intangible refers to things you feel or experience but can't touch.

Nonphysical Existence

Use 'intangible' for abstract emotions or concepts such as fear, success, or freedom.

Emotional Concepts

Use it when something is real but can't be easily expressed in words.

Hard to Describe

Intangible can add an air of mystery to descriptions of people or atmosphere.

Sense of Mystery

In business, 'intangible' can be goodwill, reputation, or intellectual property.

Not Just Money

Understand that intangible assets can be hard to value, unlike physical assets.

Valuation Challenge

 But, actually, it's suddenly come to me after years working in the business, that what we create in advertising, which is intangible value -- you might call it perceived value, you might call it badge value, subjective value, intangible value of some kind -- gets rather a bad rap. If you think about it, if you want to live in a world in the future

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 They didn't even see the intangible stuff higher up the pyramid. So I started asking myself the How can we get leaders to start valuing the intangible? If we're taught as leaders to just manage what we can measure, and all we can measure is the tangible in life, we're missing a whole lot of things at the top of the pyramid.

Chip Conley: Measuring...

 the pyramid they didn't actually even see the intangible stuff higher up the pyramid so I started asking myself the question how can we get leaders to start valuing the intangible if we're taught as leaders to just manage what we can measure and all we can measure is the tangible in life we're missing a whole

Measuring what makes...

 a real time display of mileage showing precisely how one's driving habits affect the vehicle's efficiency. The last few years have all seen the rise of innovations in how we measure and display aspects of the world that can be too big, or too intangible, or too slippery to grasp easily.

Jamais Cascio: Tools for...

 management of the tangible and intangible assets of the state through regulation, creation of the market, international agreements, including public borrowing, and then, most importantly, rule of law. I won't elaborate. I hope the questions will give me an opportunity.

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 I study the structures and systems of businesses and organizations. So, a couple of years ago, I started wondering whether we could decode and manage this seemingly intangible concept of trust. I'm pleased to report we are doing it, which I believe is really important,

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 experience is something that first exists in the intangible and then happens and so now I want to talk about exodus exit out of the design school for Nigeria where we create new realities for the country through our imagination and use design process and compassion as

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 and utterly directly there's no disconnect with that and that was why we ended up with this approach of using astronauts to connect us to it to try and examine the world with this overview perspective but an overview perspective is a very difficult and an intangible

Compelling Models for...

 like tangible matter, nor does it exactly transmit across space, like intangible information. It seems to do a little of both. Quantum physics gives us a strange new vision for all the matter in our universe as collections of fragile information.

Will we ever be able to...

 and actions and decisions like it, what might my life look like in, say, six months, 12 months, three years? Any further out, it starts to seem intangible. And really get detailed -- again, emotionally, financially, physically, whatever.

Intangible

Something that cannot be touched or physically felt, often because it's not a physical object.

Often appears as...

Difficult or impossible to define or understand.

Often appears as...

In business, it refers to value or assets not in physical form.

Often appears as...

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