Fulcrum Quotes

• There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

  John Fowles

  Life, Philosophy, Acceptance

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working. You see, for a writer, lots of stuff that doesn't look like working is actually working. Looking out of the window, for example. Balancing a pencil on the edge of the desk in order to find its exact fulcrum. Playing 'Doom.

  Graham Joyce

  Order, Example, Looks

  "Prize-winning author Graham Joyce to write script for Doom 4" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2009.

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• The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Moving, Public Opinion, World

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.167, Princeton University Press

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• Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Atheist, Answers, What Is Life

  "Christian Worldview". Interview with Julia Duin, www.washingtontimes.com. July 03, 2003.

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• Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Moving, Giving, World

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• Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.

  Jay Heinrichs

  People, Persuasion, Audience

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• Accepting responsibility is the fulcrum point for succeeding at anything.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Responsibility, Succeed, Accepting

  Jeffrey Gitomer (2014). “The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource”, p.53, John Wiley & Sons

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• Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!

  Ayn Rand

  Moving, Giving, Earth

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.189, Penguin

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• To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Eye, Reality, Views

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, Vintage

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• Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, Moving, World

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• YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Cities, Honor

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.242, University of Georgia Press

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• The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Lying, Opportunity, Night

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• Singularity theory is something that I do believe will come to pass, sooner or later, although whether or not in our lifetime I don't know, and I'm not sitting around waiting for my father to be resurrected. Readers probably have the impression from the book that I'm a lot more a of a techno kook than I actually am. It became a convenient fulcrum in the story, sort of a kaleidoscope through which to address religious and spiritual questions.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Spiritual, Religious, Father

  Source: therumpus.net

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