Shakers Quotes

• We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Life, Music, Dream

  'Ode" l. 7 (1874)

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• We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams... Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Life, Dream, World

  'Ode" l. 7 (1874)

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• The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Nuts, Movers And Shakers, Obsessive

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• Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

  Confucius

  Motivational, Work, Inspiration

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• ... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Mistake, Reading, Men

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• The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it.

  Thomas Merton

  Believe, Angel, Grace

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• Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped onto the other (the computer).

  George Johnson

  Science, Thinking, Knives

  George Johnson (2011). “Machinery of the Mind”, p.450, Crown

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• When it comes to certain kind of rhythm things, particularly like shaker or tambourine tracks. I like the way I can really lock up with my own Hi Hat or Ride Cymbal beat. So a lot of times in recording I'll be asked -- or even volunteer -- to put a shaker or tambourine track on. Just to give it something extra. And it always works great. I hate it when I'm in the studio and I don't have any shakers or tambourines with me. I've been on a few dates when we didn't have anything and tried to improvise shakers out of some uncooked rice in soda cans. It sounded horrible.

  Peter Erskine

  Hate, Volunteer, Track

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• The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest.

  Markus Zusak

  True Power, Power Of Words, Understood

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• The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in the present that begins to change everything now. Spirituality is about this process: the opening of the heart to the God who is already here.

  Marcus Borg

  Life, Relationship, Change

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• Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Perfect, Perfection, Flawed

  FaceBook post by Gretchen Rubin from Oct 08, 2013

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• We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Inspirational, Music, Dream

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• I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

  Marc Newson

  Years, Europe, Three

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• They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'

  Nate Berkus

  White, Kitchen, Steel

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• Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

  Douglas Coupland

  Three, Machines, World

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• I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.

  Aby Rosen

  People, Just Friends, Care

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• Successful people are usually more lively than those who are unsuccessful. The quickening of the spirit they feel comes out of their creativity, and success detaches them from the more rigid outlook on life - it puts them in the flow. So the shakers and movers, by their very nature, are moving faster, taking more risks, and investing more in the world than their less active counterparts.

  Stuart Wilde

  Success, Moving, Creativity

  Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.52, Hay House, Inc

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• There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.

  Abraham Maslow

  Giving Up, Selfish, Perfect

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• Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye.

  Howard Dietz

  Death, Goodbye, Kissing

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• You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at the Starbucks and wait for your agent to call you, or you can go learn how to build a Shaker blanket chest with hand-cut dovetails.

  Nick Offerman

  Cutting, Hands, Waiting

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• Position yourself as a
  center of influence, the one
  who knows the movers and
  shakers. People will
  respond to that, and you'll
  soon become what you
  project.

  Bob Burg

  People, Influence, Projects

  Bob Burg (1994). “Endless Referrals: Network Your Everyday Contacts Into Sales”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.

  Maria Mitchell

  Yesterday, Catholic, Church

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• The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.

  Markus Zusak

  Girl, True Power, Skinny

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• Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Devil

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.349

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• I feel like humor is the answer to everything. If you have a little bit of humor in the shaker and you can sprinkle that on, that's your answer.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Answers, Sprinkles, Littles

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