Dormant Quotes - Page 3

• Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

  Horace

  Lying, Talent, Circumstances

  6 Copy quote

• Knowledge itself is a neutral tool that can be used for good or evil. Wisdom, in contrast, always directs us toward happiness. The task of education must be to stimulate and unleash the wisdom that lies dormant in the lives of all young people. This is not a forced process, like pressing something into a preformed mold, but rather drawing out the potential which exists within.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Lying, Drawing, People

  Daisaku Ikeda (2010). “Soka Education: For the Happiness of the Individual”, p.151, Middleway Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

  Felix Adler

  Spiritual, Religious, Real

  7 Copy quote

• In each of us lies sleeping beauty, wasted potential, dying dreams. We sleep and live in dormant twilight, never knowing what it means to live, to love the bits of heaven that we can unearth deep in our hearts; not recognizing that our salvation is ever-present in those parts that we have disowned, denied, forgotten. The thorns of fear thwart faint attempt. The prince is courage, the kiss believing and then with these our life begins.

  Kay Thompson

  Dream, Lying, Believe

  6 Copy quote

• Deep down within anyone there's a flame that maybe had gone dormant that can be fanned or ignited in case it had blown out. This is the flame of curiosity, the flame of wonder, of awe, of all the things that make you want to learn something more tomorrow than you knew today.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Flames, Curiosity, Today

  Source: www.npr.org

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long nap. As spring gave way to summer, the bright green stalks darkened, became tan, turned golden brown. The days grew long and hot. Thick towers of swirling black clouds brought rain, and the brown stems glistened in the perpetual twilight that dwelled beneath the canopy. The wheat rose and the ripening heads bent in the prairie wind, a rippling curtain, an endless, undulating sea that stretched to the horizon.

  Rick Yancey

  Summer, Spring, Rain

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.11, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and dormant. Poetry tries to awaken them with a kiss, wherever they may be: in the air, in things, in human beings.

  Mieczyslaw Jastrun

  Kissing, Air, Trying

  4 Copy quote

• With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later, I have to defend my son. Anti-Semitism, I've seen, is like a disease that goes dormant, flaring up with the next political trigger.

  Michael Douglas

  Son, People, Political

  "Michael Douglas Pens Op-Ed on Anti-Semitism: 'We Can Stop the Spread of This Madness" by Lorena O'Neil, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 16, 2015.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• When one wakes up in the morning, one's whole life is neatly laid out, consistent with the past, to the degree that we even (apparently) remember the same language spoken the day before, suggesting previous experience had simply entered a dormant state.

  James R. Swartz

  Dream, Morning, Past

  4 Copy quote

• Acting's always felt like a kind of creature that lays dormant and collects observations when I'm not working. And then when I'm actually doing it, it just rises up. But everything I do is more about curiosity and investigation than it is about performance.

  Benn Northover

  Curiosity, Acting, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do you realize you can actually listen a person's soul into existence? Your fervent interest in the inner life of those you care for can awaken their dormant powers. The teacher Richard Moss says 'The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.' Offer this gift.

  Rob Brezsny

  Life, Teacher, Giving

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.178, Frog Books

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Men, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.153, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate evening with my husband, I was swept away by the passion (so dormant inside myself) of a long and tortured existence. The physical cravings I had tried so hard to deny, finally and ultimately sated ... But enough about the pork.

  Roseanne Barr

  Girl, Husband, Passion

  6 Copy quote

• poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end up by paying no attention to it. But once you presume to bring it out in the daylight, it becomes terrifying, you see it at last in all its squalor and you shrink from exposing it to the sun.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Pain, Moving, Long

  18 Copy quote

• Milton Erickson was a master at using experiential techniques to elicit strengths that were previously dormant. Mills and Crowley have masterfully captured essential elements of Erickson's work and applied it to therapy with children. Easy to read, meticulously referenced, and filled with inspiring case studies, Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within has now been updated with important new findings, and it's essential reading for clinicians who work with children as well as for those who want to improve their use of therapeutic metaphor.

  Jeffrey K. Zeig

  Children, Reading, Important

  5 Copy quote

• There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.

  Thomas Paine

  Lying, Men, Political

  Thomas Paine (2016). “The Rights of Man”, p.128, Xist Publishing

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• If someone comes into your house and does fked-up things to your kids and your wife, you're going to be capable of things you never imagined. Because it's in there. It might be lying dormant, but it's there.

  Ronald Perelman

  Lying, Kids, Wife

  Source: www.esquire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant?

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Dream, Years, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.188

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only those who keep walking get sweet returns... look at the sun's perseverance- dynamic & always on the move, never dormant... hence keep moving.

  Narendra Modi

  Perseverance, Sweet, Powerful

  4 Copy quote

• It's better to give ideas away and contribute to another person's success than to have them lying dormant.

  John C. Maxwell

  Lying, Ideas, Giving

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You”, Thomas Nelson Inc

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had a trainer during 'Spiderman,' and I discovered I have deep-seated rage when I'm holding heavy weights over my head. Whatever dormant anger I have in me, that's where it comes out. That's not the kind of working out I want to do.

  Emma Stone

  Work Out, Weight, Want

  "Emma Stone:‘I Feel So Fat,” And Other Body-Shaming Comments" by Hanna Brooks Olsen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

  Nikola Tesla

  Self, Practice, Snow

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.31, eKitap Projesi

  79 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love crystals, the beauty of their forms and formation; liquids, dormant, distilling, sloshing! The fumes, the odors good or bad, the rainbow of colors; the gleaming vessels of every size, shape and purpose.

  Robert Burns Woodward

  Science, Color, Rainbow

  15 Copy quote

• I'm not sure what it is that I want, but I feel it deep in the pit of my stomach. It's there sitting dormant. I'll know it when I see it.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Sitting, Pits, Want

  J. A. Redmerski, J. Lynn, Jay Crownover (2013). “The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1”, p.57, HarperCollins UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.

  Alice Hoffman

  Kissing, Years, Waiting

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “The Probable Future”, Random House LLC

  4 Copy quote

  Show source