Higher Quotes - Page 28

• We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

  Nhat Hanh

  Reality, Order, Understanding

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

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• You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we're dramatic, we move our faces, we eat higher-fat foods, we're the ones with fewer wrinkles - it makes you wonder.

  Salma Hayek

  Latin, Moving, Wrinkles

  "Salma Hayek Talks Acne, Depression, & Botox" by Kacy Ray, www.foxnews.com. April 5, 2012.

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• The possible ranks higher than the actual.

  Martin Heidegger

  Philosophical

  "Being and Time". Book by Martin Heidegger. Introduction to the book, 1927.

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• Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Believe, Elderly, Ignorant

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• Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

  James Hillman

  Jobs, Men, Office

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• And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.

  David Hockney

  Thinking, Levels, Portraits

  "'Cooler than Warhol, more enduring than Freud'". Interview with Jonathan Jones, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2006.

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• One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Escaping, Cost, Poverty

  "Breaking the Cycle of Childhood Poverty" by Chris Van Hollen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.

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• The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

  Thomas Huxley

  Perseverance, Men, Feet

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1893). “Selected works of Thomas H. Huxley”

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• Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Long, Foundation, Life Is

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• I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.

  Janet Jackson

  Believe, Inspiration, Higher Power

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.

  Helmut Jahn

  Ceilings, Use, Indirect

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• In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.

  Bobby Jindal

  Home, Louisiana, Dozen

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• Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

  John H. Johnson

  Dream, Giving, Goal

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• Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Motivational, Achievement

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.108

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• The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.

  Mary Karr

  Country, Emotional, Naps

  "Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No. 1". Interview with Amanda Fortini, The Paris Review, Issue 191, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 2009.

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• I find the practice of yoga very spiritual and taking the time to just be and to reflect through meditation and chanting helps me to connect to a higher energy.

  Miranda Kerr

  Spiritual, Yoga, Practice

  "The Style Q&A: Miranda Kerr". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 9, 2012.

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• The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

  Ron Kind

  Quality, Higher Education, Can Do

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• Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

  B. B. King

  Brother, School, College

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• And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Views, People

  "Stephen King on the Creative Process, the State of Fiction, and More". Interview with James Parker, www.theatlantic.com. April 12, 2011.

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• So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Marine, Causes, Purpose

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• In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

  Paul Klee

  Self, Drawing, Finals

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.183, Univ of California Press

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• A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

  Dean Koontz

  Thinking, Goal, Literature

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• A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

  John P. Kotter

  Mean, Anxiety, Doe

  John P. Kotter (2013). “Leading Change, With a New Preface by the Author”, p.130, Harvard Business Press

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• It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, School, Years

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• As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.

  Jonathan Kozol

  New York, School, Cities

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