Harness Quotes

• Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

  Irving Berlin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be so brazen as to assume that it's the only problem but there's got to be a reason that a martial artist can harness enough peace to smash his head through a cinder block without leaving a scratch.

  Brandi Carlile

  Block, Stress, Artist

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be‘". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• If you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

  Cher

  Inspiring, Women, Empowerment

  FLATT Interview, flattmag.com.

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• Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

  George Eliot

  Silly, Men, Unhappy

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• You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

  Robert Frost

  Freedom, Inspiration, 4th Of July

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• I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

  Pratibha Patil

  Happiness, Art, Believe

  Pratibha Patil's Speech on the Eve of Demitting Office of the President, pib.nic.in. July 24, 2012.

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• The future of the world will belong to whoever can harness energy and food.

  Mian Muhammad Mansha

  Energy, World

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• We did some cool wire work in 'The Pact' - they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding!

  Caity Lotz

  Doors, House, Wire

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• We need stem-cell research, no question about it. It is absolutely crucial for moving our medical science forward. We are trying to harness an untapped source of energy that can provide cures and possibly even prevent disease and suffering.

  Richard Carmona

  Moving, Cells, Suffering

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• There is nothing we cannot do if we harness the power within us.

  Tao Porchon-Lynch

  Ifs

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• The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life

  Haile Selassie

  Men, Resources, Intellect

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  The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

  Walter Wriston

  Business, Blow, Organization

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• Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

  George Canning

  Horse, Men, Political

  House of Commons, 1801

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• I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.

  Lyman Abbott

  Horse, Cows

  Lyman Abbott (1872). “Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish”, p.16

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• We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

  Bruce Vento

  Bridges, Focus, Library

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• Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.

  Matt Blunt

  Stupid, Technology, Government

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• They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

  Donald O'Connor

  Courage, Horse, Practice

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  Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first 'no.' And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

  Cher

  Inspirational, Positive, Women

  Interview with Christina Lessa, flattmag.com.

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• I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.

  Victoria Pratt

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• Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil’s snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil’s snare.

  Rupert Grint

  Safety, Devil, Rope

  "Newsround" with Lizo Mzimba, news.bbc.co.uk. October 24, 2002.

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• Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.

  Bill Frist

  Retirement, Growth, Saving

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• Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Poison, Abnormal, Problem

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• I'd like to harness their youthful energy with a strap.

  Ronald Reagan

  Energy

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