Contact Quotes - Page 39

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

Orison Swett Marden

Life, Character, Careers

Orison Swett Marden (1997). “Exceptional Employee”, p.128

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Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.

Phil McGraw

Sports, Boards, Life Is

Phil McGraw (2013). “The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

Wilson Mizner

Lawyer, Fortune, Convinced

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I was dirt-poor. I could barely hold down a job. Eventually, though, I started getting small parts on shows like 'Smallville,' 'Supernatural'... and lots of really bad sci-fi movies. I was running around the woods in wolf contacts, covered in fake blood made out of pancake syrup, roaring.

Cory Monteith

Running, Jobs, Blood

"O-M-Glee: Lea Michele and Cory Monteith". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. November 14, 2010.

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Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way.

Nathan Myhrvold

Real, People, Random Things

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In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.

Liam Neeson

Real, Real Life, Mankind

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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Atheist, Fear, Reality

"The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 16, 1888.

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I deal with this spiritual issue every day - either shooting or processing or sorting or discussing or having conversations - I'm in constant contact with it.

Leonard Nimoy

Spiritual, Inspiration, Issues

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

Edward Norton

Strange, Ends, Because Of You

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I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally.

Chris Noth

Roots, Working Together, Bigs

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I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.

Gary Numan

Eye, Hopeless, Problem

"Gary Numan: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

Michael Nutter

Sports, Philadelphia, Contact Sports

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I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.

Robert Plant

Kids, Lucky, Needs

"The Survivors: Robert Plant". "GQ" Interview, www.gq.com. November 6, 2011.

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It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

Jackson Pollock

Giving, Painting, Harmony

Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

Manuel Puig

Teaching, People, Madness

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I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

Giovanni Ribisi

Thinking, Phones, Cells

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When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?

Jeremy Rifkin

Animal, Land, Vaccines

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In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Soulmate, Giving, Stubborn

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In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

Donald Rumsfeld

Leadership, Thinking, President

Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.

Richie Sambora

Sports, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Reason, Polemics, Shock

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Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

Richard G. Scott

Family, Goal, Boxes

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I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.

Amanda Seyfried

Jobs, Years, Six

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In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.

Hu Shih

Two, Understanding, Culture

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For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.

Hu Shih

People, Chinese, Tools

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