Shifting Quotes - Page 9

• I'm a sucker where I love shifting tides.

  John Krasinski

  Tides, Sucker

  "John Krasinski Talks PROMISED LAND, Collaborating with Matt Damon, Getting Input from Aaron Sorkin, THE OFFICE, Developing His Own Series, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 3, 2013.

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• This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove.

  Laurel Clark

  Couple, Space, Hitting

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• There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  Japan, Pay, Burden

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• There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends...Just as real repentance begins only where blame shifting ends, so it also begins where self-pity ends, and we start to turn from our sin out of love for God rather than mere self-interest.

  Timothy Keller

  Real, Responsibility, Self

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• He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Philosophy, School

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• This have I known always: Love is no more than the wide blossom which the wind assails, than the great tide that treads the shifting shore, strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales; Pity me that the heart is slow to learn, that the swift mind beholds at every turn.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sad, Heart, Love Is

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Selected Poems”

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• In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction.

  Pico Iyer

  Borders, World, Happenings

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.

  Lee Strobel

  Moral, Sand, Consistent

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some kind, whether technological or political or scientific, whatever. And I think it's bewildering to human beings to live in a time when they can't take anything as fixed - when everything is shifting and changing all the time.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Political, Age

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We've become more and more interrupt-driven. If you have six tasks to do in an hour, you can't just take 60 minutes and divide and have 10 minutes per task. You have 10 minutes per task minus the time required for context-shifting. That will be the next big challenge: figuring out how to fight the distraction-driven mode we're in and stay focused on one thing long enough to get it done.

  Paul Saffo

  Fighting, Long, Challenges

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market after the collapse of socialism as a viable alternative.

  Richard A. Falk

  Alternatives, Variables, Great Depression

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When you take away the violence from the market, even it starts shifting into something else - not exactly paradise, but it doesn't become the market in the way we see it now.

  David Graeber

  Paradise, Way, Violence

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The good news is that there is strong movement in this direction of shifting from domination systems to partnership systems. Over the past several hundred years, one progressive movement after another has challenged traditions of domination - from the 18th century "rights of man" movement challenging the "divinely ordained right" of kings to rule their "subjects" to today's environmental movement challenging the once hallowed "conquest of nature."

  Riane Eisler

  Strong, Kings, Past

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.

  Warren Buffett

  Cutting, Thinking, Half

  Source: hurricanecapital.wordpress.com

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• Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Perspective, Acting

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• CEOs are no different than the guy in the mailroom. They all have to learn how to manage better the risk created by our increasingly risk-shifting world.

  Lewis Schiff

  Guy, Risk, Different

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes what it sees, and says, "Okay, well, that's the norm."

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Ideas, Guy, Generations

  "Pulitzer Winner Elizabeth Kolbert on Mass Extinctions - and Our Own Eventual One". Interview with Benjy Hansen-Bundy, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2014.

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• My creative process isn't a long one, so I could have started a song 10 years ago and then finish it 10 years later. It's all just about pushing around words and melodies, for me. The material is kind of shape-shifting.

  Antony Hegarty

  Song, Years, Long

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You're always kind of shifting and changing and it's a really exciting process.

  Chuck Ragan

  Kind, Process, Exciting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.

  Thomas Moore

  Silence, Soul, Sound

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• Love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it. Love is also the seed and milk and the fruit of the world, though we can partake of it in greed or reverence. We are born, we eat, and learn, and die. We leave a tracery of messages in the lives of others, a little shifting of the soil, a stone moved from here to there, a word uttered, a song, a poem left behind. I was here, each of these declare. I was here.

  Michael O'Brien

  Song, Love Is, Greed

  Michael O'Brien (2017). “Island of the World: A Novel”, p.7, Ignatius Press

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• For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of modern life; and then again fiction, at least as I write it and think of it, is a kind of religious meditation in which language is the final enlightenment, and it is language, in its beauty, its ambiguity and its shifting textures, that drives my work.

  Don DeLillo

  Religious, Book, Writing

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• You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren't held in place through choice or will power. They're held in place through perceived truth value.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Thinking, Choices, Mind

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• The consistent growth in overall revenues shows marketers may be shifting more of their total advertising budgets to online. This is a natural development as research shows more consumers are spending a larger percentage of their media time online, while the flow of advertising dollars follows.

  David Silverman

  Media, Growth, Dollars

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• I prefer working out of strict continuity, because no normal human being can have a firm grip on the constantly shifting bardo-like territory of a comics universe, where entire histories can be erased by a strong enough super-sneeze.

  Grant Morrison

  Strong, Work Out, Normal

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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