Seems Quotes - Page 36

• Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.

  Simon Sinek

  Work, Admitting, Helping

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Sep 16, 2015

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• There is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one's life apart from self-abandonmen t, in a continuous crescendo, into the hands of a love that seems to grow constantly because it has its origin in God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Self, Hands, Possibility

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• If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your preposition. It does seem to me to be a kind of animal impulse almost, a mammalian curiosity. For a reader to wonder about the autobiography in a fiction may be completely unavoidable and in fact may speak to the success of a particular narrative, though it may also speak to its failure.

  Lorrie Moore

  Animal, Curiosity, Stories

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• When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

  Albert Einstein

  India, Gita, Happy Independence Day

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• There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Sickness, Instinct

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.29, Penguin

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• It seems to me that it's actually harder to invent excuses than it is to get a sale.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Excuse, Harder

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• Some people seem to think there's no trouble just because it hasn't happened yet. If you jump out the window at the 42nd floor and you're still doing fine as you pass the 27th floor, that doesn't mean you don't have a serious problem. I would want to address the problem right now.

  Charlie Munger

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I respect the Stones but their songs are a pile of crap. As for U2, they don’t say a lot or seem like normal persons.

  Liam Gallagher

  Song, Stones, Normal

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• The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Writing, Language And Power, Kind

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• There is only one sin - lack of love. Be brave, be capable of loving, even if love seems a terrible and treacherous thing. Find joy in love. Find joy in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Love Is, Joy

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• The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.

  Eve Ensler

  Empowering, Inspire

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• Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

  Nat Wolff

  Communication, Cool Jazz, Smooth Jazz

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

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• Many investors seem to have forgotten a hard reality: There are frequent periods when stock markets don't do much.

  Jim Rogers

  Reality, Forgotten, Periods

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• It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class of Americans from the dubious blessings of Christianity.

  Hubert Harrison

  Blessing, Class, Dubious

  Hubert Harrison, Jeffrey B. Perry (2001). “A Hubert Harrison Reader”, p.43, Wesleyan University Press

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• As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.

  Erica Jong

  Real, Book, World

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• Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

  Tim Burton

  Mean, America, People

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• They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.

  Hugh Laurie

  Clever, Heroic, Hard

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• The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Lying, Stupid, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.14, The Floating Press

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• I make spaces that apprehend light for our perception, and in some ways gather it, or seem to hold it...my work is more about your seeing than it is about my seeing, although it is a product of my seeing.

  James Turrell

  Photography, Creativity, Light

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• The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

  William James

  War, May, Individual

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.311, Routledge

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• Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Moving On, Perseverance

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.150, Pan Macmillan

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• It seems to me that the experiences that stay with you, the things you'll always remember, aren't the ones you can force, or go looking for. I've always thought of those things as the ones that somehow find you.

  Jessi Kirby

  Remember, Force

  Jessi Kirby (2014). “Golden”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• That’s what seems the most sad to me—that neither of them even think there’s a possibility they can be together.

  Jessi Kirby

  Thinking, Together, Possibility

  Jessi Kirby (2014). “Golden”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• I act because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are.

  Martin Sheen

  Way, Because I Can, Knows

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• There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it

  Robert Doisneau

  Elation, Want, Rich

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