Crucible Quotes - Page 2

• Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Opportunity, Yale, Democratic Ideals

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• Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Clouds, Molecules

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• New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.

  Ford Madox Ford

  New York, Easy, Enough

  Ford Madox Ford (1927). “New York Essays”

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• I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min

  Samuel Johnson

  Body, Limits, Aptitude

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• HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

  Arthur Miller

  Intellectual, Pursuit, Hale

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.37, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

  Tariq Ramadan

  Self, Mastery, Self Mastery

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• Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Change, Spiritual

  Twitter post from Jun 14, 2016

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• Men since the beginning of time have sought peace...military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn have failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war not blots out this alternative.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, War, Men

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• Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

  Joseph Joubert

  Appreciate, Criticism, Gold

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• Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Life Is, Thrown

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• The crucible is a dividing line, a turning point, and those who have gone through it feel they are very different from the way they were before. Believing that they have been transformed or have transformed themselves, those who survive the crucible (and many don't) are more confident, more willing to take future risks. That new self-confidence is grounded in the belief that he or she has done something hard and done it well.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Believe, Self Confidence, Risk

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Molecules, Atoms

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

  William Osler

  Science, Destiny, Balance

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.254, ACP Press

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• It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.

  Simone Weil

  Earth, Way, Speak

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• But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loyalty, Men, America

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.

  Wendell Phillips

  Sex, Real, School

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.244

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• Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Men, Sorrow, Gold

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• Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Self, Phoenix

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.74, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Ask yourself: What forms the decisions you make? What is it that gnaws at you? What are your crucible moments?

  Les Wexner

  Decisions You Make, Moments, Form

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• Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.

  Philip Schultz

  Dream, Art, Mind

  Source: poems.com

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• When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.

  Gregory Maguire

  Air, Victim, Crisis

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• My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of that crucible of language - that working in poetry and prose is energizing - to me as a writer and to the work itself.

  Alex Lemon

  Language, Conversation, Energizing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures." A crucible was the vessel in which medieval alchemists attempted to turn base metals into gold. That the alchemists inevitably failed in their audacious attempts doesn't denigrate the power of the crucible as a metaphor for the circumstances that cause an individual to be utterly transformed.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Powerful, Political, Alchemist

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen.

  Bob Lefsetz

  Greatness, Special, Quality

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• Never forget your real identity. You are a luminous conscious stardust being forged in the crucible of cosmic fire.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Real, Fire

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2012

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