Reaching Quotes - Page 30

• The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

  Joan M. Drury

  Writing, Century, Dilemma

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• I call it people-to-people politics and thats what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what were going to do.

  Sonny Perdue

  People, Touching, Helping

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• No, you are not to complain or question who you are, but instead, grow, reaching for the light that's inside you.

  Victor Villasenor

  Light, Complaining, Grows

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• Have you ever visited that portion of Erin's plot that offers its sympathetic soil for the minute survey and scrutinous examination of those in political power, whose decision has wisely been the means before now of converting the stern and prejudiced, and reaching the hand of slight aid to share its strength in augmenting its agricultural richness?

  Amanda McKittrick Ros

  Mean, Hands, Decision

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• Whatever else I might have thought of [President George W] Bush's call, with its assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle Vicks VapoRub for the national charley horse, it's clear that his hands were reaching for any hands but mine.

  Natalie Angier

  Horse, Prayer, Hands

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• In our performance reviews with women, we need to be saying, "Are you reaching enough? Are you applying for jobs when you meet some of the criteria like men, or are you waiting to meet all the criteria like women do?" There's so much we can do to encourage women to take on more and believe in themselves.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Believe, Men

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• People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Spain, Stories

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• For some odd reason, I had an early and extreme multidisciplinary cast of mind. I couldn't stand reaching for a small idea in my own discipline when there was a big idea right over the fence in somebody else's discipline. So I just grabbed in all directions for the big ideas that would really work.

  Charlie Munger

  Ideas, Discipline, Mind

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• The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.

  Joy Fielding

  Giving Up, Guarantees That, Trying

  Joy Fielding (2012). “Still Life: Caught in a nightmare between life and death ...”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Being scared is normal. My technique for erasing it is facing it. Be afraid and brave. Be nervous and courageous. The first few minutes of being scared is your test to see if you're really serious about reaching a goal. Push through anxiety and come out victorious. Fear is just a test. Honor the feeling. Know it's there. Know it's temporary. Face it to erase it.

  Chrisette Michele

  Goal, Brave, Anxiety

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• Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.

  Jim Cooper

  Oxygen, Blood, Law

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• In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.

  Joe Torre

  Baseball, Thinking, Blame

  "Torre on book: 'It wasn't my intention to shock anybody'". Interview with Larry King, www.cnn.com. February 2, 2009.

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• Races always are good to show where you are reaching in your training as well as to keep you sharpened. Every race, in my program, I put it in a special way like a ladder, climbing up slowly and slowly to the next one. I see where my training is, and that is like a test.

  David Rudisha

  Climbing Up, Race, Training

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• Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity.

  Walter E. Williams

  Men, Pockets, Charity

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.112, Hoover Press

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• All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.

  William Saroyan

  Believe, Discontent

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• Emmitt Smith has run past legends, danced with stars and posed for the sculptor crafting his Hall of Fame bust. Hes built upon his athletic talents by working hard, seizing opportunities and reaching out to others for advice when he needed it.

  Don Yaeger

  Running, Stars, Opportunity

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• In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would had I ended up with tenure and a full teaching load. It was Virginia Woolf who said that it is terrible to be frozen out of a sacred tradition - but even more terrible to be frozen into it.

  Michael Parenti

  Teaching, Writing, Careers

  "Dirty Truths". Book by Michael Parenti, 1996.

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• Before any final solution to American history can occur, a reconciliation must be effected between the spiritual owner of the land - American Indians - and the political owner of the land - American Whites. Guilt and accusations cannot continue to revolve in a vacuum without some effort at reaching a solution.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Spiritual, Land, Effort

  Vine Deloria Jr. (2016). “God Is Red: A Native View of Religion”, p.68, Fulcrum Publishing

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• The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Office, Long, Leader

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• [President-elect George W] Bush has reached out to these other groups like Blacks and Hispanics.... He ought to do his reaching out to the people who elected him.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  People, Scary, President

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• Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But alas! each relaxing and desperation is an instinct too. To be active, well, happy, implies courage. To be ready to fight in a duel or a battle implies desperation, or that you hold your life cheap.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Courage, Fighting, Despair

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes”

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• The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Mother, Children, Life And Love

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience; and the only fulfillment we can speak of isthe reaching of a certain experienced end. When one experience leads to (or can lead to) the same end as another, they agree in function.

  William James

  Speak, Ends, Function

  William James (2003). “Essays in Radical Empiricism”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• The two most far-reaching critical theories at the beginning of the latest phase of industrial society were those of Marx and Freud. Marx showed the moving powers and the conflicts in the social-historical process. Freud aimed at the critical uncovering of the inner conflicts. Both worked for the liberation of man, even though Marx's concept was more comprehensive and less time-bound than Freud's.

  Erich Fromm

  Moving, Men, Two

  Erich Fromm (1992). “The art of being”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Reading, Mean

  Georg Brand, Virginia Woolf, Koizumi Yakumo, Hernández Felisberto (2017). “ON READING: Le plaisir de lire”, p.43, Pieffe Edizioni via PublishDrive

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