Enormous Quotes - Page 37

• Images have enormous power, and images freed from deep within ourselves can change us profoundly.

  Alice McCall

  Deep Within

  Alice McCall (2009). “Wellness Wisdom”, p.21, Alice McCall

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• Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.

  John Berger

  Space, Giving, Normal

  John Berger (2009). “The Shape of a Pocket”, p.176, Vintage

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• You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you are dedicated to selfless service--it is not a virtue in my morality. In my morality, the defense of one's country means that a man is personally unwilling to live as the conquered slave of any enemy, foreign or domestic. This is an enormous virtue.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Mean, Men

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.18, Penguin

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• Vocal music is an attempt to take the whole human being and project it into space. It is the ultimate gesture of getting out of yourself. You take a part of you that is most private, most personal, most inward and you hurl it out into space - you project it as far as you can. That gesture of opining this whole region of the body results in an enormous spiritual release, and is felt by other people with tremendous impact.

  Peter Sellers

  Spiritual, Impact, Space

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• I'm reading the Gospels at the moment and I can find no evidence of the kind of Christ people seem to have invented and created. There is no evidence of Christ, meek and mild. I can find Christ the compassionate, the gentle, but I also find a very temperamental, aggressive, passionate and often angry man a lot of the time. We will go for a man with that sort of breadth who is an enormous figure. I do believe Christ lived as a person. I don't think there is any disputing that.

  Franco Zeffirelli

  Reading, Believe, Men

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• Luck plays an enormous role in trading success. Some people were lucky enough to be born smart, while others were even smarter and got born lucky.

  Ed Seykota

  Smart, Play, People

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• People turned around and came back to watch. An enormous crowd formed. Ampol Oil took films. When we left Australia, we also left our boards for the Aussies. Those films were shown all over the country to different clubs. The films and our boards became the basis for the modern surfboard movement in Australia.

  Greg Noll

  Country, Oil, Australia

  Greg Noll, Andrea Gabbard (1989). “Da Bull: Life Over the Edge”, p.71, North Atlantic Books

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• He (Jackie Robinson) knew he had to do well. He knew that the future of blacks in baseball depended on it. The pressure was enormous, overwhelming, and unbearable at times. I don't know how he held up. I know I never could have.

  Duke Snider

  Baseball, Pressure, Unbearable

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• Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a web of lies and creeping terror, and a love song to the beauty and power of being different. At the novel's heart is the kind of grace Carey is known for: an illumination of the strength that lies hidden inside all of us.

  Eric Van Lustbader

  Song, Lying, Heart

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• The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

  Agnes Martin

  Self, Pitfalls, Devotion

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• Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that we are living on a planet that is going at enormous speed through the universe.

  Andreas Gursky

  Photography, Our World, Understanding

  "The Most Expensive Photograph In The World". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2011.

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• I had an enormous complex about my looks. I thought I was ugly and I was afraid nobody would marry me.

  Fred Zinnemann

  Looks, Ugly, Marry Me

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• Graphic Design is the communication framework through which these messages about what the world is now, and what we should aspire to. It's the way they reach us. The designer has an enormous responsibility. Those are the people, you know, putting their wires into our heads.

  Rick Poynor

  Communication, Responsibility, People

  "Helvetica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond drive through fare and nutritionally marginal, kid-targeted convenience foods. Our children are capable of consuming something that grew in a garden or on a tree and never saw a deep fryer. They are capable of making it through diner at a sit-down restaurant with tablecloths and no climbing equipment. Children deserve quality nourishment.

  Victoria Moran

  Children, Kids, Garden

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• Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

  Victoria Moran

  Animal, Soul, Ladders

  Victoria Moran, Adair Moran (2012). “Main Street Vegan: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully and Live Compassionately in the Real World”, p.14, Penguin

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• Managers’ typical response to my argument about free time is, ‘That’s all well and good, but there are  things I have to do.’ Yet we waste so much time in unproductive activity—it takes an enormous effort on  the part of the leader to keep free time for the truly important things.

  Dov Frohman

  Effort, Leader, Important

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• But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for whom it was intended, that no combination of written words is more eloquent than those exchanged in letters between lovers or friends, or along the pale blue lines of private diaries, where people take communion with themselves.

  Betsy Lerner

  Believe, Writing, Blue

  Betsy Lerner (2010). “The Forest for the Trees (Revised and Updated): An Editor's Advice to Writers”, p.19, Penguin

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• I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce myself. There's so much to examine, so much to contemplate. I have enormous enthusiasm when I start a new project but then there's the meetings and the counter-meetings, the rehearsals, the struggles. You have to keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get your dreams realised.

  Peter Greenaway

  Dream, Struggle, Secret

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• If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business...We have to be free so that we can just step across the line and that's it. That is what real freedom is.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Unfinished Business, Lines

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• To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act...It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Views, World, Who We Are

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• The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

  Dale Carnegie

  Self, People, Competition

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the great Mexican cuisine is dying because there are fast foods now competing, because there are supermarkets, and supermarkets can't afford to keep in stock a lot of these very perishable products that are used for fine Mexican cooking. Women are working and real Mexican cooking requires enormous amounts of time.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Real, Food, Thinking

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• We are only the temporary custodians of the particles which we are made of. They will go on to lead a future existence in the enormous universe that made them

  Stephen Hawking

  Custodians, Goes On, Made

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• Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.

  Maurice Sendak

  Love Is, Thinking, Swallowing

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• There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Wall, Mountain, Depth

  W. Somerset Maugham (2015). “On a Chinese Screen”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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