Layers Quotes

• It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Giving, Interesting, Challenges

  "11 Epic Ways Love, Bravery & Audacity Transform Your Life" by Maimah Karmo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2017.

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• Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

  Edward Abbey

  Funny, Political, Scum

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• We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Heart

  "Journal of Phenomenological Psychology", (Vol. 15), 1984.

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• Layer by layer art strips life bare.

  Robert Musil

  Art

  Robert Musil (2012). “Posthumous Papers of a Living Author”, p.44, Archipelago

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• For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

  Steven Erikson

  Years, Stories, Stones

  Steven Erikson (2011). “The Crippled God: The Malazan Book of the Fallen 10”, p.225, Random House

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• Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Layering and changeability: this is the key, the combination that is worked into most of my buildings. Occupying one of these buildings is like sailing a yacht; you modify and manipulate its form and skin according to seasonal conditions and natural elements, and work with these to maximize the performance of the building.

  Glenn Murcutt

  Nature, Keys, Sailing

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• I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.

  Ricky Williams

  Moving, Yoga, Healing

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• Live in the layers,
  not on the litter.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Next Chapter

  Stanley Kunitz, “The Layers”

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• People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

  Eudora Welty

  People, Onions, Violence

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• Everyone has different layers to who they are.

  Carmen Electra

  Different

  "I used to sneak into my parents' bedroom and look through Playboy". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2007.

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• I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

  Edward Norton

  Character, Deeper

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. January 3, 2007.

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• People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.

  Veronica Roth

  Believe, Heart, People

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• A grownup is a child with layers on.

  Woody Harrelson

  Children, Growing Up, Grownups

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• Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Leadership, Teacher, Teaching

  "The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur".

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• Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Distance, Organization, Management

  FaceBook post by Donald Rumsfeld from Aug 17, 2011

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• Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression, this approach may seem forced, unnecessary and misunderstood. But this system of communication has become very Iranian.

  Shirin Neshat

  Communication, Artist, Magic Realism

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• I don't see those paintings as abstractions, especially because they are emblems of the inkblot. They aren't smashed together; they are constructed shape-by-shape, layer-by-layer, like any other picture.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Together, Shapes, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation

  Steve Jobs

  Men, Design, Soul

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.

  Herman Kahn

  War, Ozone, Order

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Simple, Literature

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• For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment.

  Richard Leakey

  Water, Needs, Fossils

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• Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.

  Ken Burns

  The End Of The Day, Pearls, Moments

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• Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

  Paul Harvey

  Rain, Men, Garden

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• It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

  Patty Duke

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Grieving

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