Glances Quotes - Page 7

• Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Ballet, Saws

  1804 'I wandered lonely as a cloud', stanza 2 (published 1807).

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• My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

  Galileo Galilei

  Laughing, Kepler, Telescopes

  Letter to Johannes Kepler (1610), as quoted in "The Crime of Galileo" by Giorgio De Santillana, 1955.

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• See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

  Galileo Galilei

  Firsts, Shows, Experiments

  Galileo Galilei (1914). “Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences”, p.164, Courier Corporation

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• The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the opening of the north-flowing river’s delta, with Jerusalem’s answering high beams to the northeast. This 4,258 mile braid of human life, first navigated end-to-end in 2004, is visible in a single glance from space.

  Chris Hadfield

  Light, Rivers, Space

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• It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile the consensus of St. Petersburg readers is that this novel is intolerably long-winded and therefore terribly boring.

  Vissarion Belinsky

  Long, Creative, Depth

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• No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Beautiful

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• While this may look loving, when we struggle with an idol of dependence, we’re in fact not loving people as much as we’re using them to fulfill our need to belong, be liked, and be desired. This explains why some friends and family members can be so demanding, smothering, and needy. It also explains why we’re so easily inflated by praise and deflated by criticism. It’s as if others have the ability to determine our identity for that day based on a word or even a glance

  Mark Driscoll

  Struggle, Idols, People

  Mark Driscoll (2013). “Who Do You Think You Are?: Finding Your True Identity in Christ”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To brisk notes in cadence beating, glance their many-twinkling feet.

  Thomas Gray

  Feet, Ballet, Cadence

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes, a life of the author, and an essay on his poetry, by J. Mitford”, p.33

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• I believe that a revolution can begin from this one strand of straw. Seen at a glance, this rice straw may appear light and insignificant. Hardly anyone would believe that it could start a revolution. But I have come to realize the weight and power of this straw. For me, this revolution is very real.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Real, Believe, Light

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.1, New York Review of Books

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• Make your workplace into showcase that can be understood by everyone at a glance. In terms of quality, it means to make the defects immediately apparent. In terms of quantity, it means that progress or delay, measured against the plan, and is made immediately apparent. When this is done, problems can be discovered immediately, and everyone can initiate improvement plans.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Mean, Quality, Progress

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• Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them.

  Dorothy Draper

  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

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• The strong is not the one who can put on the blades at a glance, and the one who is able to raise a smile from his knees!

  Juliette Binoche

  Smile, Being Strong, Keep Smiling

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• Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of cases had been recognised and described, so much so that Charcot said: 'How is it that a disease so common, so widespread, and so recognisable at a glance - a disease which has doubtless always existed - how is it that it is recognised only now? Why did we need M. Duchenne to open our eyes?'

  Oliver Sacks

  Eye, Needs, Disease

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• So it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it. You have to penetrate the surface with more than just a cursory glance.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Able, Scripture, Study

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible”, p.54, Moody Publishers

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• The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious connexion of its parts, the infinite hierarchy and absolute evidence of the truths with which it is concerned, these, and such like, are the surest grounds of the title of mathematics to human regard, and would remain unimpeached and unimpaired were the plan of the universe unrolled like a map at our feet, and the mind of man qualified to take in the whole scheme of creation at a glance.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Beauty, Men, Order

  James Joseph Sylvester (1908). “The Collected Mathematical Papers: (1870-1883)”

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• Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him often at a glance to assess this or that position.

  Alexander Kotov

  Learning, Player, Mind

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• The rule of thumb for the old backpacking was that the weight of your pack should equal the weight of yourself and the kitchen range combined. Just a casual glance at the full pack sitting on the floor could give you a double hernia and fuse four vertebrae. After carrying the pack all day, you had to remember to tie one leg to a tree before you dropped it. Otherwise you would float off into space. The pack eliminated the need for any special kind of ground-gripping shoes, because your feet would sink a foot and a half into hard-packed earth, two inches into solid rock.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

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• I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born deep down under feathers and fur, or condemned for a while to roam four-footed among the brambles,I caught the clinging mute glance of the prisoner and swore that I would be faithful.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Animal, Soul

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• Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Hands, Judging

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• To love someone is to always see them as the miracle that they are; as the miracle that they exist, the miracle that makes your own simultaneous existence seem fortunately improbable and therefore defiantly miraculous; is to show them, in your eyes and through the way in which you look at them, the limitless beauty of their true miraculous selves; is to say to them in every glance: "I believe in miracles because i believe in you."

  Philip K. Jason

  Love, Believe, Eye

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• With every glance I take in the 'negative-positive' of existence and the inevitability of impermanence to its glowing limits. Alone and haunted, I trust my inner eye, the heart. Everything, absolutely everything, becomes visible. Appearances, disappearances, nothing seems of secondary importance to me.

  Christophe Agou

  Heart, Eye, Glowing

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• The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and the philosopher (who is in this matter a layman too) imagine, substantially unalterable, but subject like every art to unnoticed changes form epoch to epoch. The development of the great arts ought never to be treated without an (assuredly not unprofitable) side-glance at contemporary mathematics.

  Oswald Spengler

  Art, Math, Imagination

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1950). “Form and actuality”

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• Altogether, Cavalry operations are exceedingly difficult, knowledge of the country is absolutely necessary, and ability to comprehend the situation at a glance, and an audacious spirit, are everything.

  Maurice de Saxe

  Country, Spirit, Operations

  Maurice de Saxe (2012). “Reveries on the Art of War”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, Flower, Sacrifice

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• God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.

  John of the Cross

  Fall, Saint, World

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