Rare Moments Quotes

• No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.

  Eric Hoffer

  Motivational, Book, Thinking

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• Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't.

  Seth Godin

  Educational, Competition, Maximizing

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• The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Attitude, Self Esteem, Invisible

  Joseph Wood Krutch (2010). “The Desert Year”, p.48, University of Iowa Press

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• No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thinking, Achievement, Might

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• It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

  Cesare Pavese

  Children, Believe, Imagination

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• There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

  Raymond Queneau

  Running, War, Able

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• There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself.

  Ian Mcewan

  Self, Expression, Giving

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• In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Voting, Needs, Plans

  "JFK’s Daughter Endorses Obama" by Caroline Kennedy, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• I don’t leave her speechless very often. I have to enjoy those rare moments.

  Rick Riordan

  Moments, Speechless, Enjoy

  "The Demigod Diaries (The Heroes of Olympus)". Book by Rick Riordan, August 14, 2012.

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• It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. I mean, that's not normal.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Hurt, Mean, Actors

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.

  Oscar Levant

  Impossible, Odd, Difficult

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I know it when I don't know it. Sometimes I know it when I don't think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Self, Doubt

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• All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, Alcohol, Consciousness

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• It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  People, Drug, Too Late

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2008). “Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Might, Panic, Shots

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2013). “Prep and American Wife: Two Bestselling Novels”, p.237, Random House

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• Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Strong, Real, Evil

  Elizabeth Goudge (1963). “The Scent of Water”

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• Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis.

  Shan Sa

  Stars, Moon, Axes

  Shan Sa (2009). “Empress: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you've made, and realize that they got it exactly, that your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between.

  Robert Motherwell

  Communication, Heart, Interesting

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• During those rare moments of creativeness, when a person has something in common with the making of the universe, he feels a sense of transcendence. What could be a greater reward?

  Joseph C Zinker

  Rewards, Common, Transcendence

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• Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

  Novalis

  Perfect, Silence, Delicacy

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• In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute present, watching the world's ordinary miracles. No mind or heart hobbles. No analyzing or explaining. No questing for logic. No promises. No goals. No relationships. No worry. One is completely open to whatever drama may unfold.

  Diane Ackerman

  Fun, Pain, Drama

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.23, Vintage

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• He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with him on the bed, holding his hand...This was what he yearned to capture on film: these rare moments where the world seemed unified, coherent, everything contained in a single fleeting image. A spareness that held beauty and hope and motion - a kind of silvery poetry, just as the body was poetry in blood and flesh and bone.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Blood, Hands

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• The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Sleep, Light, Illumination

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• The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.

  Albert Camus

  Fate, Tasks, Today

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.121, Vintage

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• I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't illuminate you, although it has factually correct entries, millions of them. But these rare moments of illumination that you find when you read a great poem, you instantly know. You instantly feel this spark of illumination. You are almost stepping outside of yourself and you see something sublime.

  Werner Herzog

  Phones, Illumination, Sublime

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