Filling Quotes - Page 18

• I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

  Sarah Dessen

  Filling Up, Space, Empty

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.110, Penguin

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• Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container. I like work that gets out in the world and lets the world shape the poem.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Fighting, World

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, War, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Deep Life, Analysis

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• You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the same time, and filling the intermediate space.

  Giorgio Morandi

  Greatness, Space, Reaching

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• When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. . . .When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have e made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Hurt, Morning, Book

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• Everything you say or allow into your eyes or ears becomes data that is stored in your heart. That data is later replayed during your prayer. If you want to know what is filling your heart, look at what you think about in your prayer. If you want to guard your heart, guard your eyes, ears, and tongue.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Prayer, Eye, Heart

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• Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form

  Laurence J. Peter

  Income, Irs, Taxation

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• The Heart is like a fuel tank, that you always have to keep filling up with Imaan

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Heart, Filling Up, Tanks

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• Get the heat and emotion out worry, and put cold, ruthless scrutiny onto the problem, and worry loses its power. When we are worried and filled with apprehension, we become panicky and are likely to see only gloom and failure. There isn't any situation so bad that it won't become a lot better when you think rationally - and spiritually - about it. God gives you the ability to think rationally about things by filling you with peace and faith.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Faith, Peace, Thinking

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• Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.

  A. B. Simpson

  Spring, Passing On, Life Is

  A. B. Simpson (2006). “A Larger Christian Life: Expanding Your Spiritual Horizons”, p.36, Moody Publishers

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• The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on the lights, filling the kettle, taking the children to school, driving to the shops, we are condemning other people to death. We never chose to do this. We do not see ourselves as killers. We perform these acts without passion or intent.

  George Monbiot

  Children, Passion, School

  George Monbiot (2007). “Heat: how to stop the planet from burning”, South End Pr

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• You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.

  Sarah Kay

  Phones, Space, Phone Calls

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• Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It is possibility rendered material, hope in an industrial-strength mixer.

  Mark Kingwell

  Space, Filling In, Matter

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• [On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.

  Mary Ruefle

  Time, Might, Distraction

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.137, Wave Books

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• I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.

  Winifred Holtby

  Animal, Roots, Body

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Darkness, Mind

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• We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Gratitude, Feet, Air

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.72, Shambhala Publications

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• Customers don't always know what they want. The decline in coffee-drinking was due to the fact that most of the coffee people bought was stale and they weren't enjoying it. Once they tasted ours and experienced what we call "the third place" ... a gathering place between home and work where they were treated with respect.. they found we were filling a need they didn't know they had.

  Howard Schultz

  Educational, Drinking, Coffee

  "Grounds For Success". Interview with Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. May 1, 1998.

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• The zenith of virtuosity, a violinist like Jascha Heifetz, the supernatural in a pianist like Vladimir Horowitz, these are performers who were so idiosyncratic and personal that to imitate them would be like filling somebody else's bottle with your wine.

  David Finckel

  Wine, Would Be, Bottles

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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• The United States has weakened itself with Iraq; Iranians feel victorious - they feel capable of filling the void. I think from the very outset the nuclear issue has been secondary to the more strategic outlook, in which the United States has, since 1991, pursued a policy that it cannot permit any country in the region to become too powerful and challenge American hegemony.

  Trita Parsi

  Country, Powerful, Thinking

  "Trita Parsi: The NIE’s Got Nothing on Him". Interview with Justin Elliott, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2007.

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• Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.

  Alison Croggon

  Glasses, Smell, Old Friends

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• Writing in a journal is just a stall, a waiting game, a way to tell yourself that you're working when you're not, that you're doing something of value when you're just using up paper, that you're a writer when in fact you're just going through the motions of one. Look at me! I have blank paper in front of me-and now I'm filling it, with words!

  Robert Masello

  Writing, Games, Waiting

  Robert Masello (2005). “Robert's Rules of Writing”, p.12, Writer's Digest Books

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• Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space.

  Maimonides

  Breathing Space, Mouths, Eating

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• As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

  Andy Stanley

  Responsibility, Leader, Cups

  Andy Stanley (2016). “Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend”, p.9, Zondervan

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