Depth Quotes - Page 12

• When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the US economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women.

  Lael Brainard

  Leader, Economy, Program

  "Political leaders often overlook the key to economic growth: women" by Lael Brainard, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2013.

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• My attention determines the depth and quality of my experience.

  Karen Kingston

  Quality, Attention, Determine

  Karen Kingston (1997). “Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui”, Broadway

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• I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of field and making it narrow, I could create a sense of movement and reality that was in fact not there.

  David Levinthal

  Reality, Movement, Fields

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• Ever since I began working with toys, I have been intrigued with the idea that these seemingly benign objects could take on such incredible power and personality simply by the way they were photographed. I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of field and making it narrow, I could create a sense of movement and reality that was in fact not there

  David Levinthal

  Reality, Ideas, Personality

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• I learnt a blend of different martial arts - not in great depth, obviously - but various moves such as kicks, blocks and punches. It was all quite fun.

  Christian Cooke

  Art, Fun, Block

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• Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide.

  Arkady Volozh

  Technology, Russia, Culture

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• Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.

  Douglas A. Blackmon

  Black, Connections, Slavery

  Douglas A. Blackmon (2012). “Slavery by Another Name: The re-enslavement of black americans from the civil war to World War Two”, p.381, Icon Books

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• Interpretations of Muslim assimilation have gravitated between two arguments: that Muslims will remain as permanent outsiders or that Muslims will blend in with little difficulty at all. Mucahit Bilici demonstrates how wanting these arguments are. Finding Mecca in America takes us into the uncharted territory of what it is actually like to be Muslim immigrants in the United States. I am especially impressed by the study's theoretical depth and empirical insights.

  Robert Wuthnow

  Two, America, United States

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• Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species.

  Oliver Sacks

  Moving, Dancing, Musical

  Oliver Sacks (2013). “Migraine”, p.445, Vintage

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• I don't keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the past where they belong!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Past, Bird, Diaries

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• The internet has spawned people for whom knowingness is more important than knowledge. It equips you with the illusion of offering knowledge instantly - and quite easily - so you can read a few articles on a few subjects and feel well informed but not actually know any of those subjects in any depth.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Offering, People, Important

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• I'll write down and catalogue all the different devices that are Americana to me, and I try to have a historic depth and breadth and also the things that we do in our time, the type of vamps and chants, things that are available to us.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Writing, Trying, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

  Anne Michaels

  Ascent, Path, Persons

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.259, Emblem Editions

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• Donald Trump has taken the Peter Principle to unprecedented heights. Or is it depths?

  Michael R. Burch

  Taken, Principles, Height

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• Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths;
  Love laps his wings on either side the heart
  Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts,
  So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Heart, Deep Love

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• The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Wise, Reality, Men

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1965). “Ethics”

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• Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Being Strong, Character, Moral

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• My advice is to stop trying to "network" in the traditional business sense, and instead just try to build up the number and depth of your friendships, where the friendship itself is its own reward. The more diverse your set of friendships are, the more likely you'll derive both personal and business benefits from your friendship later down the road. You won't know exactly what those benefits will be, but if your friendships are genuine, those benefits will magically appear 2-3 years later down the road.

  Tony Hsieh

  Years, Numbers, Advice

  "Zappos CEO: Don’t Network, Build Relationships" by Tony Hsieh, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2011.

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• Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.

  Os Guinness

  Men, Height, Forget

  Os Guinness (1976). “In Two Minds: The Dilemma of Doubt & how to Resolve it”, IVP Books

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• It is from out of the depths of our humility that the height of our destiny looks grandest. Let me truly feel that in myself I am nothing, and at once, through every inlet of my soul. God comes in, and is everyone in me.

  William Mountford

  Humility, Destiny, Soul

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• Materialism is not fundamentally an economic problem, but a cultural one... a spiritual issue. It runs to the depths of our souls, and, for this reason, needs to be understood less in terms of budgets or fiscal cycles and more in terms of where we locate the sacred, of where we search for meaning and transcendence, and of how we think about justice, equality, and the future of our world.

  Robert Wuthnow

  Running, Spiritual, Thinking

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• The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being.

  Edward Hirsch

  Spiritual, Names, Space

  Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Art is a window to The Infinite, and opening to the goddess, a portal through which you and I, with the help of the artist, may discover depths and heights of our soul undreamed of by the vulgar world. Art is the eye of the spirit, through which the sublime can reach down to us, and we up to it, and be transformed, transfigured in the process.

  Ken Wilber

  Art, Eye, Soul

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• The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

  Carl Jung

  Ascent, Descent, Seems

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.19, Princeton University Press

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• The spiritual journey is one that we must take "alone together," in the same way that a good marriage involves a dance between solitude and communion. The life of the spirit entails a continuous alternation between retreating into oneself and going out into the world: it's an inward-outward journey. There is a solitary part to it, but that solitude helps us to develop richer and more in-depth relationships with our friends, our children, our community, and the political world.

  Sam Keen

  Spiritual, Children, Journey

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