Shapes Quotes - Page 38

• It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

  Barry Lopez

  Wise, Giving, Imagination

  Barry Lopez (2004). “Of Wolves and Men”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Ideas, Years, Intuition

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.189, Pan Macmillan

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• Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of such specimens is sheer vanity and inquisitiveness. I do not presume to say; but we find in our mountains the rarest animals, shells, mussels, and corals embalmed in stone, as it were, living specimens of which are now being sought in vain throughout Europe. These stones alone whisper in the midst of general silence.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Science, Animal, Vanity

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• Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  God, Spring, Creativity

  1957 Baccalaureate address, 9 Jun.

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• You have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you're the one with the problem!'

  Jennifer Lopez

  Acceptance, Who I Am, Problem

  "Jennifer Lopez Talks Body Image And Finding Her Way In Hollywood". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2013.

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• Getting in shape for this role, which is incredibly demanding, vocally, has been a lot of hard work, but I'm nailing it. I'm even kind of, at times, blowing my own mind, because I am even able to talk right now.

  David Hasselhoff

  Hard Work, Hard Times, Mind

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• Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

  Li Ka-shing

  Strong, Inspiration, Innovation

  "6 skills of self-made millionaires everyone should use" by Adam Toren, www.businessinsider.com. March 10, 2016.

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• Sports are the reason I am out of shape. I watch them all on TV.

  Thomas Sowell

  Sports, Watches, Tvs

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• Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Glasses, Example, Looks

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• The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Eye, Ends, Middle

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• However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

  Eric Hoffer

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• My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Beautiful, Careers, Looks

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• There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Adventure, Soul, Everyday

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.43, 谷月社

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• What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

  Lionel Trilling

  Pain, Artist, Mark

  Lionel Trilling, Leon Wieseltier (2009). “The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays”, p.99, Northwestern University Press

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• You shape your own destiny.

  Chet Atkins

  Destiny

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• The subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of the whole, it destroys all sensations.

  Camille Pissarro

  Color, Drawing, Dry

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• A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.

  Henry Moore

  Sculpture, Pieces, Size

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.195, Univ of California Press

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• A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Sculpture, Obsessed

  "Celebrating Moore: Works from the Collection of the Henry Moore Foundation".

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• Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Witty, War, History

  'The Origins of the Second World War' (1961) ch. 10

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• In the gospel message, the beginning of change occurs in the heart of each individual. This heart change makes a difference in the home, then in the community, and ultimately in the nation- and in turn it shapes the future of a cultural ethos.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Home, Heart, Ethos

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• We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Heart, Soul

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• If a person weren't failing in some way, shape or form, would he or she need to blame, justify, or complain? The obvious answer is no.

  T. Harv Eker

  Secret, Complaining, Needs

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Nov 02, 2010

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• A clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world.

  Russell Simmons

  Life, Inspiring, Keys

  Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow (2007). “Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success”, p.64, Penguin

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• Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.

  Rene Dubos

  Science, Men, Decision

  Barbara Ward, René Jules Dubos (1972). “Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet: an Unofficial Report Commissioned by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment”, Penguin Books

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• I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Science, Numbers, Nomenclature

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