Fertile Ground Quotes

• Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Garden, Thinking, Evil

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour”, Simon and Schuster

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• In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.

  Deepak Chopra

  Change, Lying, Creativity

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• Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

  K. D. Lang

  Song, Heartache, Bliss

  "What I know about women". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Fall, Best Practices, Organization

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• Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

  Ben Stein

  Life, Motivational, Relationship

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• The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit.

  Leo Errera

  Truth, Needs, Fruit

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• I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through with the important people in our lives can become fertile ground for the growth of enduring trust - trust that is actually stronger because it's been tested and proved through challenge.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, People, Challenges

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• Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What redeems you is that in every man and woman there is a seed that can grow to encompass love, joy and compassion. But this seed is never allowed to prosper in fertile ground. It struggles for life among the rocks of your human soul.

  David Gemmell

  Struggle, Men, Compassion

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• Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky.

  Michael Bassey

  Sky, Air, Attention

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• When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.

  Allen West

  United States, Tyranny, Fertile

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• Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived. Clutter is wonderfully fertile ground - you can still discover new treasures under all those piles, clean things up, edit things out, fix things, get a grip. Tidiness suggests that something is as good as it's going to get. Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation, while writing needs to breathe and move.

  Anne Lamott

  Moving, Writing, Mean

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• Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.

  Dan Brown

  Dark, Men, Law

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• Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?

  Maria Rodale

  Believe, Home, Keep Believing

  Maria Rodale (2010). “Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe”, p.93, Rodale

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• The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Important, Fiction, Stories

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us sadness can become the fertile ground for gladness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Sadness, Joy, Sorrow

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could honestly say that I wouldn't want to kill someone who took someone away from me. So, it's a rich, fertile ground for great characters and great storytelling. That was the impetus.

  Richard LaGravenese

  Character, Want, Moral

  Source: collider.com

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• I think sadness and anger are really fertile ground for comedy. No one is really interested in a happy person doing comedy.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Sadness, Thinking, Comedy

  "Zach Galifianakis: ‘I have no idea’ if FX comedy ‘Baskets’ will work". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2016.

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• America has always been the most fertile ground for models - and they were always exported to other countries. When Eastern Europe opened up its doors to the rest of the world, a lot of the girls that were basically working there for $1 a month realized that if they were beautiful and that they could go to Paris and work for $1,000 a day versus the $10,000 that the other girls were demanding. So it created a huge imbalance in the financial structure of how clients could budget out campaigns. The market became flooded.

  Michael Flutie

  Beautiful, Girl, Country

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often. It is...fertile ground for learning, adaptation, and evolution...The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All other topologies limit what can happen.

  Kevin Kelly

  Order, Organization, Growth

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• Since Hollywood seems to be more interested in people wearing tights and using powers, there seems to be a fertile ground for movies about real human beings.

  Ramin Bahrani

  Real, People, Hollywood

  "99 Homes director Ramin Bahrani on his dream debate between Trump and the Pope". Interview with Charles Bramesco, www.avclub.com. October 1, 2015.

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• The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Ideas, Mind, Opinion

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• There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.

  Werner Herzog

  Insecurity, Noir, Financial

  "Courting Disaster: Werner Herzog". Interview with Darrell Hartman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2009.

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• What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Heart, Movement, Revolution

  "US eco-activist Tim DeChristopher speaks out from prison". www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2011.

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• You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid forms of music and hybrid forms of show, if you draw from many, many different wells. It's just unfortunate so many rock'n'roll stars only bother to learn how to play like Led Zeppelin and/or the Rolling Stones and that's what you get, disc after disc and show after show.

  David Lee Roth

  Stars, Rocks, Play

  "David Lee Roth: Outrageous or normal?". Patrick McDonald, The Advertiser, October 13, 1988.

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• All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

  Alan Lightman

  Roots, Fiction, Work Family

  "Reviewing Mr g: Physicist-turned-novelist Alan Lightman meets God at the intersection of science and religion". Interview with Greg Quill, www.thestar.com. February 12, 2012.

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