Kazuo Ishiguro

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?

Japanese Author

Eric Nylund

I don't look at it as writing a book in a videogame universe. I look at it as writing for 'Halo', which for me, transcends being just a great video game. It's evolving into a whole new mythology.

American Novelist

Bertrand Russell

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

British Philosopher

Neil deGrasse Tyson

No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.

American Scientist

David Lynch

You don't need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.

American Director

Nicolas Cage

The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.

Actor

Eric Bana

Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

Australian Actor

Faith Salie

Approval makes the world go round, even if many of us want to transcend our hunger for it.

American Journalist

Mohsin Hamid

Pakistani Writer

Antonio Guterres

Portuguese Politician

Often used metaphorically to indicate superiority or higher achievement.

Metaphoric Use

Usually positive, indicating a high standard or remarkable accomplishment.

Positive Connotation

Can apply to abstract concepts, not just physical boundaries or limits.

Abstract Concepts

Suggests something goes beyond being important to being influential or essential.

Beyond Importance

Indicates transcending cultural norms or practices, highlighting universality.

Cultural Usage

Conveys the idea of overcoming ideological barriers or constraints.

Ideological Overcoming

Used in a religious sense, often referring to spiritual enlightenment or states.

Spiritual Significance

Implies an elevation beyond ordinary existence or condition.

Elevation Aspect

Often relates to reaching into subtle or intangible realms of experience.

Subtle Realms

Suggests depth in thought that surpasses ordinary understanding.

Philosophical Depth

Indicates complex concepts not easily grasped by common experience.

Conceptual Complexity

 There's only three things cameras do. So you have a sensor. You have an aperture and a shutter. That's what a camera is. - That's right, yep. - Everything with those basics. - You know, we always say art imitates life. I feel like that is pretty spot on and transcends any walk of life or any medium or anything somebody's doing as their work.

Photography as...

 but can transcend disability through technological innovation. Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we will end disability. I'd like to finish up with one more story, a beautiful story.

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 Of course, these narrative principles transcend classic Greek tragedy. In Shakespeare's canon, we see Hamlet's indecisiveness lead to a series of bad decisions, or perhaps non-decisions, that culminate in the death of almost every character in the play,

Why tragedies are...

 all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world. See, it wasn't enough for me to write a book. It wasn't enough for me to join a slam competition, and while those things hold weight, it wasn't the driving force that pushes the pen to the pad.

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 Through deep thought, Woolf's characters are shown to temporarily transcend their material reality, and in its careful consideration of the complexity of the mind, her work charts the importance of making our inner lives known to each other.

Why should you read...

 ruling over impoverished masses. The new century brought more exciting and terrifying changes. Medical advances made it possible to transcend biological limits while mass media allowed instant communication between leaders and the public.

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 Entanglement is an old mystery from the early days of quantum physics and it's still not entirely understood. Entangling the spin of two electrons results in an influence that transcends distance. Measuring the spin of the first electron

Will we ever be able to...

 the trick and neither do reports or statements on their own art however can be transcending connecting us to stories and issues on a deeper emotional level art can create a visceral response art can make the distant feel personal I

Fighting injustice with...

 These are insects that, by working together, transcend individual size. The colony can search the entire jungle and flush out its wildlife.

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 these are insects that by working together transcend individual size the colony can search the entire jungle and flush out its wildlife

Transcend

Metaphoric Use

Positive Connotation

Abstract Concepts

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