Magnitude Quotes - Page 11

• In between training sessions, I'll often watch DVDs of King Kong, Godzilla or Frankenstein, just to keep my mind on the task in hand and remind myself of the magnitude of the challenge.

  David Haye

  Kings, Motivation, Dvds

  "David Haye aiming to unmask 'bogeyman' Nikolai Valuev", www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2009.

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• We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion and magnitude of the orbs, of a kind that is not possible to obtain in any other way.

  Johannes Kepler

  Way, Orbs, Kind

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• Passionate worship always leads to personal witness. Always. And what that means is . . . if we’re not witnessing, there’s a problem with our worship. We’re not seeing God for who He is! We’re not realizing what He’s done! We’re not realizing the magnitude of what He’s done for our souls!

  David Platt

  Mean, Soul, Passionate

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• Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude.

  Fred Brooks

  Average, Order, Differences

  "No Silver Bullet". Book by Fred Brooks, 1986.

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• And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.

  John Milton

  Stars, Moon, World

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.154

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• Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Space, Ego, Looks

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• It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, People, Tragedy

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• There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge.

  Swami Paramananda

  Attributes, Certain, Universal

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• What strikes me most about Best Buddies International is the simplicity and magnitude of the mission. Friendship is a simple idea.

  Tom Brady

  Simple, Ideas, Simplicity

  FaceBook post by Tom Brady from Nov 18, 2011

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• It was like everyone suddenly knew what mattered. Money didn't matter. Politics didn't matter. Tabloid news didn't matter. No-compassion mattered. Calm mattered. Respect mattered. Did it really take something of this magnitude to make us realize this?

  David Levithan

  Compassion, News, Tabloids

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• You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life, made of eighth-inch gauge. Newness strutting around as if it were significant. Irony, neatness and rhyme pretending to be poetry. I want to go back to that time after Michiko's death when I cried every day among the trees. To the real. To the magnitude of pain, of being that much alive.

  Jack Gilbert

  Running, Pain, Real

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.13, Knopf

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• If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

  George A. Smith

  Believe, Heart, Vain

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• The Father and His angelic hierarchy
  That made the magnitude and glory there
  Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.

  William Butler Yeats

  Father, Eye, Angel

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• I have listened to many tales in my life, and told a few of my own. If this has taught me anything, it is that there are some occurrences that change the course of things, that make an alteration far beyond their own apparent magnitude. It is like the throwing of a tiny pebble into a pool, how it makes an ever-expanding circle of ripples, spreading right across the water's surface.

  Juliet Marillier

  Circles, Water, Tiny

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.418, Macmillan

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• Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

  Thomas Hardy

  Kings, Dramatic Life, Life Is

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• This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Stars, Communication, Night

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.99, Random House

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• We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Love, Inspirational, Wedding

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.129, Library of America

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• You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage.

  Lois Lowry

  Pain, Able, Would Be

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a father at all.

  Jeanne Birdsall

  Father, Long, League

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• Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives. That sum total of private behavior has worldwide public consequences of enormous magnitude. There are no completely private choices.

  James E. Faust

  Choices, Our Society, Behavior

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• One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Powerful, Thinking, Different

  "Web inventor: Online life will produce more creative children". Interview with Lila King, www.cnn.com. October 10, 2005.

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• For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Ends, Source

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.14, Macmillan

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• No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure how many species there are, where they can be found or how fast they're disappearing. It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

  E. O. Wilson

  Stars, Order, Knowing

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• Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may be catalogued for purposes of education, they may be illustrated by arresting experiments, by numbers and magnitudes which startle or fatigue the imagination but they will form no familiar portion of the intellectual furniture of ordinary men unless they be connected, however remotely, with the conduct of ordinary life.

  Arthur Balfour

  Education, Science, Men

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• One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  May, Limits, Firsts

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