Markers Quotes

• There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Forgiveness, Heartbroken, Site

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• Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.

  Bruce Barton

  Cereal, Healthy, Eating

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• It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

  Thornton Wilder

  Beauty, Evil, World

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• Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.

  Simon Sinek

  Goal, Progress, Measurement

  Twitter post from Mar 14, 2011

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• If we choose an external marker as the measure of our inner worth, whether it is the amount of money we make, or others' opinion of us, or the success of some project we're involved in, sooner or later we're bound to be battered by life's inevitable changes. After all, money comes and goes, and thus is an unstable source of self-esteem, an unreliable foundation upon which to build our identity.

  Dalai Lama

  Self Esteem, Others Opinions, Identity

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• A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.

  Barack Obama

  Funny Graduation, Focus, Lazy

  "The Best Advice From Obama’s Commencement Speeches As President" by Tyler Kingkade, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2016.

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• Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

  Campbell Scott

  Book, Waiting, Trying

  "PROCESS: Tom Gilroy and Campbell Scott on Acting, Directing and Details, Part I". Interview with Tom Gilroy, www.indiewire.com. December 19, 2001.

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• Having God as an identity marker is nothing but a label, a language, and a lifestyle. I'm a Christian. I talk like one. I act like one.
  But having God as an identity changer is so much more. It's lavish abandon to who God is and who He's made me to be. Holding nothing back!

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Change, God, Christian

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jun 16, 2014

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• A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Condolences, Sight

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• Problems, obstacles, and challenges can either become the markers of our limits and limitations, or they can become the springboard into a whole new world.

  Erwin McManus

  Challenges, World, Limits

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.

  Sarah Moon

  Information, Given, Aim

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• Problems are just mile markers. Each one we pass means we've gotten better.

  Tony Hsieh

  Motivational, Mean, Problem

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• Write down what you feel guilty about. Now, with the biggest, reddest marker you can find, cross it out-delete it.

  Sue Thoele

  Writing, Guilt, Crosses

  Sue Patton Thoele (2002). “The Woman's Book of Confidence: Meditations for Strength and Inspiration”, p.7, Conari Press

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• I want to trace my father, could you suggest a good marker pen?

  Frankie Boyle

  Father, Want, Pens

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• Life gives us no such handy markers - a storm comes, and far from this being a harbinger of death and collapse, during its course a person discovers love and truth, beauty and happiness, the rain lashing at the windows all the while.

  Alain de Botton

  Rain, Giving, Storm

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.119, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall - or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.

  Graham Swift

  Children, Memories, Fall

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• I don't think roles help you resolve your issues. I just think they're good markers.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Thinking, Issues, Roles

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• When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things . Not to invalidate your experience or all the great feelings you have, I tell them. Although poetry may be good for you, it's not therapy. You're making something with words which are visceral, muscular, active, not just markers of how you feel. And we have classes studying William Blake, Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Stein.

  Anne Waldman

  School, Class, Feelings

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells, schedules, coffee-breaks, to stake down time so you'll start believing it's something small and mean, something that scrapes flake after flake off of everything you love till there's nothing left; to stake you down so you don't lift off and fly away, somersaulting through whirlpools of months, skimming through eddies of glittering seconds, pouring handfuls of hours over your upturned face.

  Tana French

  Real, Coffee, Believe

  Tana French (2014). “The Secret Place: Dublin Murder Squad: 5”, p.186, Hachette UK

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• [M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone or something, when we could have gone down another path, a happier or better or just a different path. Just because they're in the past doesn't mean you can't treasure the possibilities ... maybe we put down a marker for another time. And now's the time. Now we can do whatever we want to do.

  James Robertson

  Memories, Mean, Thinking

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• One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people into them in order to get their basic needs met - what I call "administrative violence." I had images of forms with gender boxes and ID cards with gender markers, but I also wanted an image that would capture how basic services like shelters are gender segregated.

  Dean Spade

  Order, People, Needs

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I had the great idea of using markers to gently color the ants so I could tell them apart, but I learned that this is exactly like somebody trying to gently color on you with a thirty-story building. Without dwelling on the tragedy, I'd just like to say that I'm deeply sorry to Mr. Purple and the surviving Purple family.

  Jim Benton

  Sorry, Color, Ideas

  Jim Benton (2013). “Dear Dumb Diary #11: Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers”, p.56, Scholastic

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• What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Next, Consciousness, Species

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• There is a congratulatory culture in the Gulf. From birth onwards, there is a culture of giving people trophies as markers of achievement for making it through society. It's cementing allegiance to authority at a very young age.

  Ayshay

  People, Giving, Achievement

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Writing about a place is, of course, one good way of feeling close to it, feeling you have made something out of your interaction with that place. It's like a marker of your own experience, of that time in your life.

  Sean Michael Wilson

  Writing, Feelings, Way

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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