Strokes Quotes

• Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Down And, Littles

  1592 Messenger to Richard telling of his fatherYork's death. HenryVI PartThree, act 2, sc.1, l.54-5.

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• If you have the feeling of choice, if you feel free, you will be better off. And when I say better off I mean that if people feel they have control over their lives, they call in for fewer sick days from work. They have a lesser probability of having a heart attack or stroke. They live longer. They're happier.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Heart, Mean, People

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• Different strokes for different folks.

  Clarence Darrow

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Different

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• Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

  Carly Fiorina

  Funny, Leadership, Small Acts

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• I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Games, Funny Golf

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• With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt, sugar, and fat - all of which leads to diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and cancer.

  Lee Haney

  Cheer, Cancer, Heart

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• Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

  Peter Hammill

  Art, Lying, Thinking

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• The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Love You, Lovers

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. [296]

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• He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Our Generation, Ties

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.361, Anchor

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• And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

  Cleo Moore

  Mirrors, Dabs, Use

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• Little strokes fell great oaks.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, 4th Of July, Persistence

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.81

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• Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

  Joan Didion

  Texture, Painting, Novel

  "Joan Didion, The Art of Nonfiction No. 1". Interview with Hilton Als, www.theparisreview.org. 2006.

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• Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

  William Shakespeare

  Virtue, Calumny, Scapes

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.63, Classic Books Company

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• The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

  Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 12, 1959.

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• When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; (i.e.) those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Ideas, Giving

  "History of the Church". Book by Joseph Smith, 3:381, June 27, 1839.

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• The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Writing, Positive Thinking, Opportunity

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• A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.

  Jay Leno

  Depression, Cheer, People

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• There's a lot of evidence that fruits and vegetables are beneficial for reducing the risk of stroke.

  Walter Willett

  Vegetables, Risk, Fruit

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• After a stroke we can re-learn how to talk, because by practicing we can establish different pathways in the brain, circumnavigating the damaged part.

  Philippa Perry

  Brain, Pathways, Different

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "5 Ways to Deal With Rejection" by Karen Naumann, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2016.

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• Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and staff, my resting place and shield, and not mine only, for art leaves nobody out. Even those from whom art has been stolen away by tyranny, by poverty, begin to make it again. If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy that creates them is not destroyed.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Song, Art, Dust

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• And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders; I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur.

  Angela Carter

  Beautiful, Hair, Water

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking about themselves and their world. In a single stroke, we delude our students into believing that bad prose turns opinions into facts and we alienate them from their own inner lives.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Believe, Writing, Heart

  Parker J. Palmer (2017). “The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal”, p.113, John Wiley & Sons

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• My father looked like he was having a stroke— not that Mel seemed to notice because he just kept talking. “Patrick needs a ride. No car, you know, and so I figured, hey, I can pick up some gas money.” He laughed. No one else did, and now Patrick looked like he was trying to push himself inside the door and hide.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Father, Doors, Talking

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• An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe in a miracle, a slow miracle would be just as incredible as a swift one. The Greek witch may have turned sailors to swine with a stroke of the wand. But to see a naval gentleman of our acquaintance looking a little more like a pig every day, till he ended with four trotters and a curly tail, would not be any more soothing. It might be rather more creepy and uncanny.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Moving, Men

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