Splits Quotes - Page 28

• Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dream, Jobs, Fate

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.236, Dial Press

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• There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? The universe split every time someone made a decision. Split, so that every decision ever made could go both ways. Every choice made by every man, woman, and child was reversed in the universe next door.

  Larry Niven

  Children, Men, Choices Made

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• I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.

  Rumi

  Pain, Heart, Want

  "Rumi And His Sufi Path Of Love". Book by Faith Citlak, 2007.

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• If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal. But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart.

  Philip Pullman

  Mean, Two, Doe

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• Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

  Alvar Aalto

  Art, Design, Architecture

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• Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Decision, Scripts

  Wynton Marsalis, Geoffrey Ward (2008). “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life”, p.8, Random House

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• Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!

  Carl Jung

  Self, Opposites, Energy

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• The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Teacher, Mean, Thinking

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• In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.

  Duke Snider

  Thinking, Swings, Hands

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• Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.

  Richard Rohr

  People, Whole, Wholeness

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons

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• If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Thinking, Views, People

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• The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

  Elyn Saks

  Mind, Waking, Nightmare

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• As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (...) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.

  Julio Cortazar

  Rain, Skins, Lightning

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.473, Everyman's Library

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• Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

  C. S. Lewis

  Prayer, Flames, Doe

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• The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away. I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.

  Lynda Barry

  Baby, Stupid, Grandma

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• These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the point. Either that or I end up saying the opposite of what I mean. The more I try to get it right the more mixed up it gets. Sometimes I can't even remember what I was trying to say in the first place. It's like my body's split in two and one of me is chasing the other me around a big pillar. We're running circles around it. The other me has the right words, but I can never catch her.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Mean, Opposites

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 26, 2013

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• To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

  Teju Cole

  Reflection, Sorrow, Alive

  Teju Cole (2011). “Open City”, p.192, Faber & Faber

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• Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspirational, Patience, Nature

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

  Milan Kundera

  Plato, Philosophy, Love Is

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• I’m so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in. I felt a responsibility to Simon [Halls] and to our kids to be able to live with integrity and not have some strange split psychology of This is who my dad is at home, and this is who he is to the public. That trumped any type of professional repercussions that it could have had. And – not by my own volition or choice – I’ve been playing exclusively straight characters for the first 10 years of my career. Whatever happens from this point on says a lot more about the business and society than it does about me.

  Matt Bomer

  Dad, Integrity, Character

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• The South is like my favorite pair of blue jeans. It's shrunk some, faded a bit, got a few holes in it. it just might split at the seams. It doesn't look much like it used to, but it's more comfortable, and there's probably a lot of wear left in it.

  John Shelton Reed

  Blue, Jeans, Looks

  John Shelton Reed (1993). “My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture”, p.7, University of Missouri Press

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• Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.

  Ernest Becker

  Men, Order, Two

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split second to make up his mind if it's in or out or down or coming at his head, a split second to swing. To do what he did has got to be the most tremendous thing I've ever seen in sports.

  Pee Wee Reese

  Sports, Block, Player

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• You and I are standing this very second at the meeting place of two eternities: the vast past that has endured forever, and the future that is plunging on to the last syllable of recorded time. We can't possible live in either of those eternities - no, not even for a split second. But, by trying to do so, we can wreck both our bodies and our minds. So let's be content to live the only time we can possible live: from now until bedtime.

  Dale Carnegie

  Future, Past, Two

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.

  Che Guevara

  Two, Land, Entering

  "The Motorcycle Diaries", 2004.

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