Spots Quotes - Page 33

• Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts, evolutionary psychologists, and economic equilibrium theorists.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophy, Media, Helping

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• When you hit a certain spot you Sprint no matter how you feel inside or what your co-runner thinks. You just go! In training as a nickel, you sprint because you need to sprint! You just do it! In racing people see it and call it courage, but it is attitude; determination; duty.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Determination, Attitude, Thinking

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• One day I get to that spot where I've discovered the secret to the maze, and then I've got free running the rest of the way. It's a great feeling.

  Will Hobbs

  Running, Feelings, Secret

  Source: scholar.lib.vt.edu

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• The awesome thing about lettering - which is different from many forms of art - is that you can actually see your mistakes. There are sophomore mistakes that people do at the beginning that you spot everywhere. For example, a lot of people make 'W's by turning 'M's upside down.

  Jessica Hische

  Art, Mistake, People

  Source: www.digitalartsonline.co.uk

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• London is like a collection of hills. There are lots of desirable spots and lots of space in between. The idea of elbowing people out of your way to get somewhere - literally or metaphorically - seems foreign here.

  Vestal McIntyre

  Ideas, Space, People

  Source: roosterweathervane.tumblr.com

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• I think we're insecure about our self-imposed spot at the top of the pyramid of life. New studies are continually undermining our superiority complex and forcing us to reconsider our relationship to animals.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Insecure, Thinking, Animal

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• You got to work hard whatever you're doing and try to be number one and take pride in what you're doing. You want to be at the best at your spot then you got to work hard, man. A lot of guys don't work as hard as it gonna take.

  Moses Malone

  Hard Work, Pride, Men

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• I only do numbers/acts that excite me, or I connect to personally. I never phone it in. It's about finding the balance between what my audience wants and what I want to give them. That sweet spot in the vendiagram.

  Jinkx Monsoon

  Sweet, Phones, Numbers

  Source: fierth.com

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• There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for the number one spot for a big or medium film.

  Aaron Zigman

  Numbers, Tennis, Competition

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• When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation. Once a pianist like myself sits down and begins to play and start thinking about what I am writing all of a sudden a little tune will emerge, a little spot light and I'll go, "That's interesting."

  Aaron Zigman

  Writing, Thinking, Light

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• I told Kate I didn't love her in an argument. But I do! Those heated moments are the worst, because that's when you can do the most damage. And they're bad, because you always hit them in the spot where you know it hurts.

  Peter Andre

  Hurt, Damage, Argument

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always faithful to the core values of science.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Blind Spots, Faithful

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• O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth.

  Andy Murray

  Prayer, Secret, Earth

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• Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

  Steve Allen

  Helping, Social, Get Over

  Steve Allen, Jane Wollman (1992). “How to be funny: discovering the comic you”

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• But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.

  Ben Folds

  Writing, Church, Musician

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.

  John Piper

  Christian, Rising, Firsts

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• Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.

  Sam Ervin

  Light, Pathways, Burden

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• O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.

  Thomas Campbell

  Tree, Barren, Spares

  'The Beech-Tree's Petition'.

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• Learning to spot narcissists and deal with their destructive behavior can save you the world of hurt that awaits anyone who mistakes the near enemy for a friend.

  Martha Beck

  Hurt, Mistake, Enemy

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• Explorers depend on the North Star when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationship exists between you and your right life, the ultimate realization of your potential for happiness. I believe that a knowledge of that perfect life sits inside you just as the North Star sits in its unaltering spot.

  Martha Beck

  Stars, Believe, Sight

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• This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three billion years of evolution, in whose person the evolutionary process has at last become conscious of itself and its possibilities. Whether he likes it or not, he is responsible for the whole further evolution of our planet.

  Julian Huxley

  Men, Years, Mind

  "The New Divinity". "Essays of a Humanist". Book by Julian Huxley, 1964.

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• The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade. The rock enthusiasts have created some of the most exciting theatrical events on the planet.

  Jim Morrison

  Mass Culture, Rocks, People

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• 43.7 per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

  Steven Wright

  Statistics, Made, Cents

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• Though the island of Great Britain exhibits but a small spot upon the map of the globe, it makes a splendid appearance in the history of mankind, and for a long space has been signally under the protection of God and a seat of peace, liberty and truth.

  John Newton

  Islands, Space, Long

  John Newton, Richard Cecil (1824). “The Works of the Rev. J. Newton ...: With the Memoirs of the Author and General Remarks on His Life, Connections, and Character”, p.142

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• Tell me, ye wingèd winds That round my pathway roar, Know ye not some spot Where mortals weep no more?

  Charles Mackay

  Wind, Wings, Pathways

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