Shapes Quotes - Page 4

• A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Leadership, Men, Vision

  Ernest Shackleton (2015). “South”, p.78, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• [It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.

  Shawn Achor

  Educational, Reality, Views

  "The happy secret to better work". TEDxBloomington Talk, www.ted.com. May 2011.

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• I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.

  Wally Lamb

  Thinking, Waiting, Secret

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• Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible. Once you start believing in yourself, your dreams take shape. The more you believe, the more you achieve.

  Martina Navratilova

  Dream, Believe, Achieve

  Martina Navratilova (2007). “Shape Your Self: My 6-Step Diet and Fitness Plan to Achieve the Best Shape of Your Life”, p.18, Rodale

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• A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

  Helen Dunmore

  Writing, Trying, Stories

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• Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic cave. We naturally believe ourselves clever and wise, so advanced, and those who came before us so naïve and simple...when all we truly do is echo the order of the universe, as it guides us.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Wise, Clever, Believe

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• I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Beautiful, Moving

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.75, Hamilton Books

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• Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Diversity, Moats

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• I love nudity. And I love beautiful shapes.

  Kanye West

  Beautiful, Love Is, Nudity

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Tape, Noses

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.82

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• To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.

  Brian Aldiss

  Important, Standards, Knows

  "Hothouse". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1962.

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• London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.

  John Buchan

  Exercise, Care, London

  John Buchan (2016). “The Complete Works of John Buchan (Unabridged): Thriller Classics, Spy Novels, Supernatural Tales, Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Works, The Great War Writings, Essays, Biographies & Memoirs – All in One Volume”, p.663, e-artnow

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• Our beliefs, our values shape the way we look out at the world and the way we treat it. If we believe that we were here, placed here by God, that this - all of this creation is for us, it's for us to go and occupy, dominate and exploit, then we will proceed to do that.

  David Suzuki

  Believe, Looks, World

  "David Suzuki on Rio+20, “Green Economy” & Why Planet’s Survival Requires Undoing Its Economic Model". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. June 25, 2012.

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• That turned-up collar. The jacket that zipped all the way down the front into a nice fitted shape. The white denim that made my untanned skin look like a color.

  Tina Fey

  Nice, White, Color

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• In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.

  Stephen Covey

  Self, People, Empowering

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• This spirit [of Party], unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under different shapes in all Governments, more or less stifled, controuled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.

  George Washington

  Government, Worst Enemy, Different

  George Washington’s "Farewell Address", oll.libertyfund.org. September 19, 1796.

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• Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.

  Judith Viorst

  Expectations, Lessons, Developmental

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• When you want to be a good player in next years worldcup you wanna be in good shape to appear strong at the tournament.

  Thomas Muller

  Strong, Player, Years

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• I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff.

  Guy Pearce

  Real, Musician, Sound

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• As an actress, I'm supposed to create something from head to toes, with clues, with lines, with shapes, and even with that power, I felt lost and not in control.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Lines, Toes, Actresses

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city

  Sufjan Stevens

  Beach, New York, Powerful

  Source: thequietus.com

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