Shapes Quotes - Page 36

• It's not the events that shape my life that determine how I feel and act, but, rather, it's the way I interpret and evaluate my life experiences.

  Tony Robbins

  Thinking, Events, Way

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world - including in my own country.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Appreciation, Islamic

  President Obama's remarks to the Turkish Parliament, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 6, 2009.

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• Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable from it. I might show that it is fatal to religion and morality; that it tends to debase the mind, and corrupt its noblest springs of action. I might show that it relaxes the sinews of industry, clips the wings of commerce, and introduces misery and indigence in every shape.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Spring, Wings, Mind

  Alexander Hamilton (1850). “The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military. Published from the original manuscripts deposited in the Department of State, by order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress”, p.9

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• God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Evil, World

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• God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, World, Bounds

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.3, CCEL

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• God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Heart, Age

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.3, CCEL

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• None of us condone terrorism in any way, shape, or form, and I believe Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that was, is, and remains a threat to peace in the Mideast, and must be dismantled and disarmed.

  John Conyers

  Believe, Organization, Way

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• Let us today seek to find that place within each of us where dreams are made, where our highest aspirations take shape. Let us confirm the power of our humanity by giving architecture and substance to the dreams we have for our nation, so that the promised land of social and economic justice that is within our dreams will soon be within our sight.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Dream, Sight, Land

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• We want to do a lot of stuff; we're not in great shape, we didn't get a good night's sleep, we're a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Good Night, Coffee, Sleep

  "So Jerry Seinfeld Called Us To Talk About Coffee". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. April 26, 2013.

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• To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time.

  William J. Clinton

  Patriotic, Reality, Revolution

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.135, Best Books on

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• By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ... now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.

  Antonin Artaud

  Suicide, Suicidal, Reality

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• So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak. Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Strong, War

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

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• As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Army

  Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.33, Wordsworth Editions

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• The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand what you are going to do.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can regulate and form itself in a more or less haphazard and chance way. But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.

  John Dewey

  Educational, Believe, Moving

  John Dewey (1972). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.94, SIU Press

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• If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the case, they deserve to be called intelligent; for they act in nearly the same manner as would man under similar circumstances.

  Charles Darwin

  Intelligent, Men, Rude

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 28: The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms With Observations on Their Habits”, p.43, NYU Press

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• She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

  George Ade

  Intelligent, Long, Intellect

  George Ade (2016). “Fables in Slang”, p.62, Youcanprint

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• I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black. . . the feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Airplane, Dark, Islands

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• Golf is played with a number of striking implements more intricate in shape than those used in any form of recreation except dentistry.

  E. V. Knox

  Golf, Numbers, Used

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• I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It's like a color movie. First I 'see' where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes and I 'see' the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is this sort of fadeout, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images to reality.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Nice, Golf, Reality

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• Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets us, come out in the end in better shape than the glib and ready reproducer, its passions being deeper, its purposes more worthy, its combining power less commonplace, and its total mental output consequently more important.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Passion

  William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• A relationship ends because you've outgrown it. It can begin again because you, as two, can fill the new shape.

  Megan McCafferty

  Two, Together, Relationships Ending

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.1233, Crown

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• When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms, not shadows of a fading summer; but swinging shapes as of books upon a strap, of round and square boxes held under an arm, of hurrying little people heading towards the nearest school.

  Djuna Barnes

  Summer, Book, School

  Djuna Barnes, Alyce Barry (1989). “New York”, Sun & Moon Pr

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• It's important to realize that words shape our beliefs and impact our actions.

  Tony Robbins

  Basketball, Impact, Important

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• Once practice starts, we work hard, and that's the best conditioning there is. Everything counts. Every little thing counts. Run hard, play hard, go after the ball hard, guard hard. If you play soft (what I call signing a 'non-aggression pact' with your teammates), you won't ever get into shape.

  Pete Carril

  Basketball, Running, Hard Work

  Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.153, U of Nebraska Press

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