Harness Quotes - Page 6

• Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God whispering in his ears, let music flow from his fingertips. It's a nice image for selling tickets to movies, but whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.

  Twyla Tharp

  Nice, Kissing, Destiny

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• Whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.

  Twyla Tharp

  Kissing, Preparation, Brows

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• I know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way.

  Patty Duke

  Creativity, Successful, Bipolar

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.201, Bantam

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• The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Agony, Our World

  "Let Us Have Faith".

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• It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on for ever, without recreation may suit spirits emancipated from this 'heavy clay', but while we are in this tabernacle, we must every now and then cry halt, and serve the Lord by holy inaction and consecrated leisure. Let no tender conscience doubt the lawfulness of going out of harness for a while

  Charles Spurgeon

  Running, Long, Doubt

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• Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness that nervous energy into a positive way.

  Tom Lehman

  Golf, Feelings, Nerves

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• We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Wind, Car

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wind, Clothes, Body

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it's one of their few defenses. They need their callousness, they need their ignorance. They walk in the dark, along the edges of high cliffs, humming to themselves, thinking themselves invulnerable.

  Margaret Atwood

  Ignorance, Dark, Thinking

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

  Henry Adams

  Running, Art, Philosophy

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.15, Booklassic

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• The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Play, Devil, Thanks

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• Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside you that you didn’t dare let them escape in case they blew you wide open? Have you ever been so angry that you couldn’t look in the mirror for fear of finding the face of evil glaring back at you?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Struggle, Mirrors, Evil

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?

  Robert E. Howard

  Sweat, Forever, Soul

  Robert E. Howard (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert E. Howard (Illustrated)”, p.1961, Delphi Classics

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• Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down with cutting remarks or holding ourselves back from greatness with a harness woven of fear and shame and longing? If we do not deem ourselves worthy first, how shall we ever ask for more?

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Cutting, Greatness

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.1487, Delacorte Press

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• Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Bells

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 47

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• As Steve draws me closer to the band, all I can see is a frenzied mass of seething, writhing people, like a many-headed sea snake, grinding, waving their arms, stamping their feet, jumping. No rules, just energy - so much energy, you could harness it; I bet you could power Portland for a decade. It is more than a wave. It's a tide, an ocean of bodies.

  Lauren Oliver

  Ocean, Jumping, Sea

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• And yet ... But what if ... I want to do something impossible. Something astounding and unheard of. I want to scrub the moss off the Space Shuttle and fly Julie to the moon and colonise it, or float a capsized cruise ship to some distant island where no one will protest us, or just harness the magic that brings me into the brains of the Living and use it to bring Julie into mine, because it's warm in here, it's quiet and lovely, and in here we aren't an absurd juxtaposition, we are perfect.

  Isaac Marion

  Moon, Islands, Space

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• The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy an enemy, but for more powerful ways to create new friends. While the State Department engages in international diplomacy, there is no domestic parallel. There is no department seeking to harness the power of a nonviolent heart.

  Marianne Williamson

  Powerful, Healing, Heart

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• Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in the ratio of a million to one, compared with any previous sources. The release of atomic energy will change the whole structure of society.

  Frederick Soddy

  Islands, Coal, Atomic Energy

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• By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep terra-cotta brown and was the constituency of harness leather. The sun no longer penetrated it. I retained my hat.

  Robyn Davidson

  Clothes, Skins, Naked

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.209, A&C Black

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• As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding) the speed of light, eventually leading to a sublime, universe wide awakening.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Light, Sublime, Awakening

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• Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the apple ever fell on Newton's head. But once it did, and he understood it, then we as a society were free to harness this principle to create, among other things, airline flight.

  Andy Andrews

  Apples, Long, Principles

  ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com.

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• Whenever you are angry or afraid, nervous or worried or resentful, repeat the mantram until the agitation subsides. The mantram works to steady the mind, and all these emotions are power running against you, which the mantram can harness and put to work for you.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Running, Mind, Agitation

  Eknath Easwaran (2009). “The Mantram Handbook: A Practical Guide to Choosing Your Mantram & Calming Your Mind”, p.13, Nilgiri Press

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• He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.

  Winston Churchill

  Death, Soldier, Battle

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• Dangling in space I realised I could always slip out of the harness. I looked forward to the peace of the great release.

  Douglas Mawson

  Adventure, Space, Release

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