Pointers Quotes

• When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

  Anthony de Mello

  Moon, Sage, Idiot

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “Taking Flight: A Book of Story Meditations”, p.66, Image

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• A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Teacher, Art

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.16, Tuttle Publishing

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• You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

  Bertrand Meyer

  Technology, Quality, Computer

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• When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.

  Adyashanti

  Beautiful, Mean, Suffering

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• Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.

  Murray Leinster

  Adventure, Waiting, Toss

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• Catch Harry Belafonte. He's got a helluva rhythm section.And so have the Pointer Sisters. And that little guy with Sammy Clayton. He plays the whole show with 40 members.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Guy, Littles

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those concerned. It is more than a metaphor to describe the price system as a kind of machinery for registering change, or a system of telecommunications which enables individual producers to watch merely the movement of a few pointers, as an engineer might watch the hands of a few dials, in order to adjust their activities to changes of which they may never know more than is reflected in the price movement.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Hands, Order, Watches

  "The Use of Knowledge in Society" by Friedrich Hayek, American Economic Review, September 1945.

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• Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci di Combattimento were founded, he will find not a doctrine but a series of pointers... It may be objected that this program implies a return to the guilds (corporazioni). No matter!... I therefore hope this assembly will accept the economic claims advanced by national syndicalism.

  Benito Mussolini

  Italian, Giving, Matter

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• The mellow autumn came, and with it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets. The corn is cut, the manor full of game; The pointer ranges, and the sportsman beats In russet jacket;--lynx-like is his aim; Full grows his bag, and wonderful his feats. An, nutbrown partridges! An, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

  Lord Byron

  Sports, Sweet, Party

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.408, Xist Publishing

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• Disneyworld... is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

  Alan Coren

  Historical, Magic, Vision

  "Tissues for Men". Book by Alan Coren, 1980.

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• Nods from the Gilded pointers -
  Nods from the Seconds slim -
  Decades of Arrogance between
  The Dial life -
  And Him -

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Arrogance, Slim

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.91, Harvard University Press

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• Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Buddhism, Science

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• My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.

  Slash

  Mom, Costumes, My Mom

  "The Cat in the Hat: Slash". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 24, 2010.

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• I know with Gary Ross especially, he kind of gave me pointers here and there, but he kind of let me become firm in any way that I needed, and he just let me try things and to explore what I can do with my acting. So that was very helpful.

  Willow Shields

  Trying, Acting, Here And There

  "Comic-Con 2012: 'Hunger Games' Star Willow Shields on Playing Jennifer Lawrence's Sister". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 17, 2012.

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• Here's a pointer culled from the careers of men who have attained notable success: Don't sit in your office during the hours prospects can be seen. Do your office work before or after the hours during which possible customers can be reached. This may mean adding an hour or two quite often to your day's work; but in times like this particularly, the securing of a satisfactory amount of business through the expenditure of an extra hour or two a day is not an unreasonable price to pay.

  B. C. Forbes

  Mean, Men, Office Work

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• Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny should take a few pointers from the mutual-fund industry. All three are trying to pull off elaborate hoaxes. But while Santa and the bunny suffer the derision of eight year olds everywhere, actively-managed stock funds still have an ardent following among otherwise clear-thinking adults. This continued loyalty amazes me. Reams of statistics prove that most of the fund industry's stock pickers fail to beat the market.

  Jonathan Clements

  Loyalty, Easter, Thinking

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• I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger out, and they kind of keep their place as they look all around the page. I've always been impressed by how children are so observant.

  Jan Brett

  Children, Book, Reading

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I had a weimaraner for 11 years called China, and he was a great dog, a bit mad. They're massive, weimaraners; they've got big floppy ears. They look like a pointer, but they're liver-coloured.

  Phil Daniels

  Dog, Years, Mad

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2009.

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• Just do what you want, I don't think you should ever... pointers and tips from people is great, and it's good and I don't think you should ever shun down advice, but if you feel something's wrong, then you don't do it. And that's what I'd say.

  Gabrielle Aplin

  Thinking, People, Advice

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• In the world of form, everything changes and evolves. So, there was a certain evolution of the teaching. Different pointers came in, different stories, different approaches to the truth, which always is the same.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Teaching, Stories, World

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment. A good little pointer toward that is to ask yourself, "What is my relationship with the present moment? How am I relating to it?"

  Eckhart Tolle

  Littles, Moments, Importance

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I didn't hit one three-pointer in college, and a couple of those were right on the college three line. I didn't feel comfortable much outside of 12 to 15 feet. Now, I really feel comfortable from the wing and the corner area out to 18, 19 feet. I'm going to keep working and continue to improve it.

  David Lee

  Couple, College, Wings

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• A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favourite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student's vulnerability and causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being. Martial art should not be passed out indiscriminately.

  Bruce Lee

  Teacher, Art, Mind

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• [On being lesbian:] One pointer: don't come out to your dad in a moving vehicle.

  Kate Clinton

  Dad, Moving, Sexuality

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• The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying "When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

  Anthony de Mello

  Taken, Moon, Tasks

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