Clicks Quotes - Page 12

• The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still, and when we can run almost without effort.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Effort, Runners

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.80, Rodale

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• Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, "I could sing that song. I've got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs; it is actually important to do songs they're familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I've changed people's perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.

  Alan Cumming

  Song, Thinking, People

  "Cumming around again". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. February 18, 2016.

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• If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.

  Gideon Lewis-Kraus

  Cities, Light, Parent

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• Trying to get the sentences right and the structure of the narration right is about as big a job as I can handle. But I also know that if you handle that job properly, everything else just clicks into place.

  Bob Shacochis

  Jobs, Trying, Structure

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• Out of sheer stubbornness, I just would keep going - just hoping that at some point something would click. I certainly held onto the hope that it might. I had no guarantees, but I trusted that if I worked hard and put in the time, it would eventually reap a fruit. I just didn't know what that fruit was going to be or how big it was going to be.

  R.A. Dickey

  Fruit, Guarantees, Might

  "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.

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• Sometimes, as in an athletic event where everything clicks, inexplicable things do happen. Learning and practicing an art or a skill has always been part of the success of the goal.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Art, Skills, Goal

  Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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• There are a lot of robots who can open clicks. And they can click instead of human beings and this is damaging the confidence and the trust that the client has on programmatic.

  Maurice Levy

  Robots, Clients, Humans

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• First click attribution is akin to giving my first girlfriend 100% of the credit for me marrying my wife.

  Avinash Kaushik

  Girlfriend, Technology, Wife

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• Click. The door swung open. "Three," James said with a slightly self-satisfied smile. "Well done," Caroline said. He smiled back at her. "I've never met a woman or a lock that didn't love me.

  Julia Quinn

  Doors, Self, Done

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• Jonah spoke what everyone was thinking. "Wouldn't it be Twilight Zone if the door was open, too?" Hamilton tried the knob. It didn't budge. Ian stepped forward and examined the lock. "Natalie's diary has better security than this." He produced a credit card and slipped it between the latch and the jamb. There was a click, and the door swung wide.

  Gordon Korman

  Twilight, Thinking, Doors

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• I don't think I”m a very good actor. Everything is very tentative and at a certain point you click in and just feel the spirit move you. I can be possessed really well.

  River Phoenix

  Moving, Thinking, Actors

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• I feel like there isn't as much mystery to music anymore. That could be a good thing or a bad thing. There definitely is no seperation anymore. Your connection with your fans is like two clicks away on a phone with a Twitter or a blog. I think that's a good thing. It's a new music industry. You're really connected with your fans.

  Jason Wade

  Thinking, Two, Phones

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• I do experience something pretty commonly with every song; there's some moment where it clicks into its own life with its own emotional impact that I feel, and even though technically I'm the one writing the song, it's like watching a storm come in.

  Mirah

  Song, Writing, Emotional

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Milton on speed. I am going to need about a decade to think about that. That delay in syntax, the putting off of the click of the sentence into itself, is something that has always intrigued me. I love the emotional effect of it, and never want it to be merely a gesture. Sometimes I try it and it doesn't work, so I have to put the poem aside, and try again, more simply and more strange.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Emotional, Thinking, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.

  Astra Taylor

  People, Vision, Building

  Source: therumpus.net

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• and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same way a soldier holds his breath the first time his finger clicks the trigger. We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

  Andrea Gibson

  Keys, Soldier, Different

  Andrea Gibson (2018). “Take Me With You”, p.158, Penguin

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• The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life, but it also comes from the mind and the heart of the artist. The photograph is his vision of the world and expresses, however subtly, his values and convictions.

  Paul Strand

  Heart, Artist, Decision

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• I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photograph is to be taken.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Taken, Eye

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• To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I Agree'.

  Bill Maher

  Christian, Software, Bottom

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• Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Expression

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• Ya know it's funny, what's happening to us. Our lives have become digital. Our friends, now virtual. And, anything you could ever wanna know is just a click away. Experiencing the world through second hand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it. We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self-discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.

  Travis Rice

  Funny, Life, Motivational

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• There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Expression

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• Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

  Pete Townshend

  Wind, Events, Curls

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• First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product - the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

  Steve Jobs

  Iphone, Ipods, Firsts

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.60, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.

  Charley Reese

  Government, Knowing, Libertarian Party

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