Laura Benanti

If people don't like your act, it feels a little bit more like they don't like you as opposed to they didn't like that character... It's weird because on one hand, we make our living from being permeable and vulnerable, but we also have to have very thick skin.

American Actress

John Battelle

As the border between physical and digital gets more permeable, a new kind of literacy emerges. And that literacy is built on a foundation of code - whether it's the codes of letters and words, or the code of bits and algorithms.

American Businessman

Hampton Sides

I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.

American Historian

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

The biggest organ in your body is your skin, and it's a permeable membrane. Anything you put on it goes into you. If you can't pronounce most of the words on the back of the bottle, it's probably not good for you.

American Scientist

Sue Monk Kidd

Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and boundaries we create and how to make them more permeable.

American Writer

Renzo Piano

In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.

Italian Architect

John Berger

I think I'm very permeable. I can very easily, without even choosing to do it, enter the life of another. Or, to put it in a more modest and accurate way, for that life to enter mine.

English Artist

Teresa de Lauretis

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.

Italian Author

Philip Zimbardo

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

American Psychologist

Kevin Powers

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

Use 'permeable' when describing materials like fabrics, rocks, or membranes that liquids or gases can go through.

Material Context

'Permeable' often relates to environmental science, such as soil and water systems.

Environmental Focus

Remember that 'permeable' is a physical property; it describes an object's characteristics, not its function.

Physical Property

Use 'permeable' metaphorically to describe openness to influences or ideas, not just physical entry.

Metaphorical Use

'Permeable' can imply vulnerability or a lack of resistance in emotional or intellectual contexts.

Emotional Nuance

In social and organizational contexts, 'permeable' suggests adaptability and responsiveness to change.

Influence and Change

 which privileged people like to think is fixed and impermeable, with them on the good side, the others on the bad side -- I knew that line was movable, and it was permeable. Good people could be seduced across that line, and under good and some rare circumstances, bad kids could recover with help, with reform, with rehabilitation.

The psychology of evil PIPE...

 And these chemicals are easily absorbed through amphibians' permeable skin, causing immunosuppression, or a weakened immune system, and developmental deformities. Okay, so why are these little green guys worth keeping around? Frogs are important for a multitude of reasons. They're an integral part of the food web,

Why are frogs...

 Exactly why is unclear. Do people with dandruff have a certain genetic predisposition? Is their skin barrier more permeable? Scientists are currently investigating if people with dandruff do, in fact, lose more water through their scalps, and whether this is what’s leading their skin cells to proliferate.

What causes dandruff,...

 in which these horizontal building blocks are stacked up to create huge outdoor courtyards -- central spaces for the community, programmed with a variety of amenities and functions. And you see that these courtyards are not hermetically sealed spaces. They're open, permeable; they're interconnected.

Why great architecture...

 underneath the reservoir, illuminating with light in the ultraviolet region. Now, the key is that this window in the bottom of this reservoir, it's a composite, it's a very special window. It's not only transparent to light but it's permeable to oxygen. It's got characteristics like a contact lens.

What if 3D printing was...

 We need better places in this country. Public space. This is a good public space. It's a place worth caring about. It's well defined. It is emphatically an outdoor public room. It has something that is terribly important -- it has what's called an active and permeable membrane around the edge.

James Kunstler: How bad...

 It's permeable. There are gardens and open spaces for the community, almost every unit with its own private garden, and community space all around. And most important, permeable, open. It does not form a wall or an obstruction in the city,

Moshe Safdie: How to...

 sustainable fishing and permeable breakwaters when I saw this progression it struck me as a sculptural metal miracle many of these corals survived in El Nino year while the neighboring corals on the natural reefs died or bleached from

How can sculptures save...

 this house and retrofit it with him create and demonstrate that it's a viable building process in fact it's everything that you want in a building in a wall it's permeable so it mediates the humidity in the room but since the

Can You Build a House...

 and there are two primary models for how to do it. One is to build a geothermal power plant which uses these hot, deep pools to produce electricity. First, engineers drill a well several kilometers into permeable rock