Edges Quotes - Page 36

• While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Stars, Eye, Moon

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• It's hard to see a river all at once, especially in the mountains. Down on the plains, rivers run in their course as straightforward as time, channeled toward the sea. But up in the headwaters, a river isn't a point where you stand. In the beginnings of the river, you teeter on the edge of a hundred tiny watersheds where one drop of water is always tipping the balance from one stream to another. History changes with each tiny event, shaping an outcome that we can only fully grasp in hindsight. And that view changes as we move farther downstream.

  Lynn Culbreath Noel

  Running, Moving, Views

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• The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got that dark edge, and people will watch anything funny.

  James Denton

  Beautiful, Dark, Men

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Kings, Moving, Black

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• The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Leadership, Responsibility, Circles

  Frances Hesselbein (2002). “Hesselbein on Leadership”, p.8, John Wiley & Sons

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• Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

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  Ram Dass

  Acceptance, Mind, Suffering

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.84, Harmony

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• And so you [young Americans]need to be the Idea Generation. The generation who's always thinking on the cutting edge, who's wondering how to create and keep the next wave of American jobs and American innovations, who's figuring out how to out-compete the Idea Generations of Indias and Chinas of the world.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Jobs, Cutting

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• The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time

  Robert Zoellick

  World, Chaos, Harvest

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• Embracing a low carbon economy will be as momentous as the previous industrial revolutions. As the shift from coal to oil did. And the shift from gas light to electric light. It has the potential to give us the competitive edge in the new global economy. The scale of the challenge is extraordinary. We will need to reinvent in the way we live our lives, the way our world works

  Charles Hendry

  Our World, Light, Oil

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• The mistake...was attributed in part to the fact that employees called the 3-year note 'Losh' and the 5-year note 'Bosh'. The comic mixing of 'Loshes' and 'Boshes' sounded more like a Dr. Seuss children's book than a cutting-edge risk-management operation.

  Frank Partnoy

  Children, Mistake, Book

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• Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her like petals around the stem of a flower. This way the meadows, that way the woodland. Over here, the baryn's estate, out there, the hills that hug the known world close and imply a world at beyond. She could never come up with the edge of a world, because it always kept going on beyond. She moved the center of the world as she walked. The world was balanced on her head.

  Gregory Maguire

  Life, Flower, Hug

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• You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran off the mercury, your heart galloped flat-out and never needed to rest, everything was pitched on the edge of shattering glass. How wanting something was like dying of thirst. How your skin was too fine to keep out any of the million things flooding by; every color boiled bright enough to scald you, any second of any day could send you soaring or rip you to bloody shreds.

  Tana French

  Life, Rip, Fall

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• Kirpal's left hand swoops down and catches the dropped fork an inch from the floor and gently passes it into the fingers of his daughter, a wrinkle at the edge of his eyes behind his spectacles.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Daughter, Eye, Hands

  Michael Ondaatje (1996). “The English Patient: A Novel”, Random House Inglaterra

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• Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving

  Mary Oliver

  Play, Knowing, Touching

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.5, Beacon Press

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• There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which does something to them. It fixes them in a way.

  Diane Arbus

  Mean, Magic, Cameras

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• The winner's edge is all in the attitude,
  not aptitude.

  Denis Waitley

  Attitude, Aptitude, Winner

  Denis Waitley (1986). “The Winner's Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success”, Berkley

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• A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous wills while the soul is left in cold desolate misery. What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium. Physical labor may be painful, but it is not degrading as such. It is not art; it is not science; it is something else, possessing an exactly equal value with art and science, for it provides an equal opportunity to reach the impersonal stage of attention.

  Simone Weil

  Art, Men, Opportunity

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.17, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

  Denis Hayes

  Civilization, Environmental, Cliffs

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• In order to be the best, you have to know your breaking point-go to the edge of it, but never go beyond.

  Rebecca Twigg

  Order, Point Break, Limits

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• Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Anger, Important, Losing

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• Death is by no means separate from life. . . . We all interact with death every day, tasting it as we might a wine, feeling its keen edge even in trifling losses and disappointments, holding it by the hand, as a dancer might a partner, in every separation.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Death, Disappointment, Mean

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• My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach was white as salt, and cut off from the world by a ring of steep hills that faced the sea. We were on the edge of a large bay and the water was that clear, turquoise color that you get with a white sand bottom. I had never seen such a place. I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Beach, Cutting, Color

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.134, A&C Black

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• The process of growth is, it seems, the art of falling down. Growth is measured by the gentleness and awareness with which we once again pick ourselves up, the lightness with which we dust ourselves off, the openness with which we continue and take the next unknown step, beyond our edge, beyond our holding, into the remarkable mystery of being.

  Stephen Levine

  Art, Fall, Dust

  Stephen Levine (1984). “Meetings at the edge: dialogues with the grieving and the dying, the healing and the healed”, Anchor Books

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• The way to happiness is a high-speed road to those who know where the edges are.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Way, Speed, Knows

  L. Ron Hubbard “The Way To Happiness”, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.

  David Whyte

  Numbness, Absent

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