Mold Quotes - Page 9

Whether you are buying a car or casting a ballot, choosing a job or planning a family, follow your moral compass. Don't let others define you. Don't let advertisers mold you; don't let zealots ensnare you; don't let conventional wisdom trap you....you are part of a much larger whole.

Denis Hayes

Jobs, Car, Casting

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Films and life are like clay, waiting for us to mold it. And when you trust your own insides and that becomes achievement, it's a kind of principle that seems to me is at work with everyone. God bless that principle. God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it.

Shirley MacLaine

Thinking, Achievement, Waiting

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You can have what you want- if you know how to form the mold for it in your own thoughts. There is no dream that may not come true, if you but learn to use the Creative Force working through you. The methods that work for one will work for all. The key to power lies in using what you have...freely, fully and thus opening wide your channels for more creative force to flow through you.

Robert Collier

Dream, Lying, Keys

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A coach has to worry not so much about creating motivation, esprit de corps, as about destroying it. The true competitor has it; he wouldn't be a star if he didn't. So you have to mold all these egos together and make sure in your selection of people that you don't destroy the feeling of togetherness or morale, because it is a fragile thing.

Dick Motta

Sports, Stars, Motivation

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Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.

Lydia M. Child

Fashion, Flower, Being Different

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Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are actually playing roles they have become so skillful at that they seem pure and natural...Much bad Acting is the result of being too close to the Actor's everyday self, confining him in its rigid mold.

Richard Hornby

Self, Everyday, Acting

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Be original. The world will try to fit you into a mold, but carve your own path.

Jessica Simpson

Self Esteem, Parenting, Trying

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The fine emotions whence our lives we mold
Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Lying, Dumb

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Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.

Bruce Lee

Inspirational, Growth, Principles

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One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another face of the prejudice that would deny them a chance to even try. It is the same prejudice that insists all those destined for success must be cast from the same mold as those who have succeeded before them, a view that experience has already proven a fallacy.

Sonia Sotomayor

Views, Achievement, Doubt

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[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.

Charles Taylor

Unique, Voice, Demand

Charles Taylor (1994). “Multiculturalism”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

Thomas A. Edison

Children, Memories, Stress

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He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa. Stretches of English code whole sentences long have thickened, lost their articulations, their articulateness, their articulatedness. Like a dinosaur expiring and settling in the mud, the language has stiffened. Pressed into the mold of English, Petrus's story would come out arthritic, bygone"(117).

J. M. Coetzee

Long, Mind, One Day

J M Coetzee (2015). “Disgrace”, p.117, Random House

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It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it. I must never forget it... I want sensuality and sensitivity, both... Let me never deny that... I want to err on the side of violence and excess, rather than to underfill my moments.

Susan Sontag

Loneliness, Violence, Sides

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I was just peeling some potatoes for dinner and they all looked like crisp white potatoes until I cut them in half. Every single one had a rotten, gray core. [. . .] I feel like the whole world is black, rotting, and evil. Even when it looks crisp on the outside, that's a lie, because you can't trust anything - on the inside it's nothing like mold. [. . .] So, see, nothing good is ever going to happen, and anyone who says it is, is lying to you.

Jaclyn Moriarty

Lying, Cutting, White

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Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don’t fit where you don’t belong

Richard G. Scott

Grateful, Fit, Righteous

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At the very outset I have to tell you that truth is what it is. You cannot mold it, you cannot change it. It is always the same. It has been the same, it is the same, it will be the same. But to say that we know the truth and that we have the truth is really a self-deception. If you had known the absolute truth there would have been no problems and everybody would have said the same thing. There would be no discussions, no arguments, no fights and wars. But when we don't know the absolute truth then we can find out our own mental conceptions as the truth. But this mind is so limited.

Nirmala Srivastava

Love, Wisdom, War

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He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stay Strong, World, Firm

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He named me. He liked the sound of it. And I said, well, all right. I felt a little odd about it. I don't understand all that name changing business anyway... No, he felt that Lauren Bacall was better sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a svengali. He wanted to mold me. He wanted to control me. And he did until Mr. Bogart got involved.

Lauren Bacall

Memorable, Names, Svengali

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Take my heart and mold it; take my mind, transform it; take my will, conform it - to Yours, to Yours, to Yours.

Micah Stampley

Christian, Heart, Mind

Song: Take My Life

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When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good. . . . When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

Carl Rogers

Responsibility, Confusion, Empathy

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The beautiful in life...
Some talk of it in poetry,
Some grow it from the soil,
Some build it in a steeple,
Some show it through their toil.
Some breathe it into music,
Some mold it into art,
Some shape it into bread loaves...
Some hold it in their hearts.

Bernard Meltzer

Beautiful, Art, Meaning Of Life

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Herman Melville

God, Fashion, Heart

Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war”, p.374

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If you're going to be typed, there are worse molds in which you can be cast.

Greer Garson

Casts, Ifs

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Sometimes I get it right and I sometimes I get it wrong. But fashion is all about having fun. I think fashion has been hijacked by the fashion industry creating rules on what one should wear and I feel like breaking the mold and seeing that the world won’t crumble.

Helena Bonham Carter

Fashion, Fun, Thinking

"Helena Bonham Carter: Why I Break All the Fashion Rules" by Paul Chi, people.com. January 26, 2011.

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