Shifting Quotes - Page 4

• The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.

  Colonel Sanders

  Years, Long, Records

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• The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which absolute and relative, perfect and imperfect, infinite and finite are marvelously interwoven. You can stop fighting the shifting tides of relative love and learn to ride them instead. And you come to appreciate more fully the simple, ordinary heroism involved in opening to another person and forging real intimacy.

  John Welwood

  Beautiful, Real, Fighting

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• The control is shifting because of the democratisation of the internet. My industry is very good at building walls to stop people getting in.

  Kevin Spacey

  Wall, People, Internet

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.

  Emily Blunt

  Jobs, Taken, Thinking

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2012.

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• The activity of both sets of muscles, the diaphragm and the abdominal muscles, varies reciprocally. Thus, during inspiration the tonus of the diaphragm increases while that of the abdominal muscles decreases, and vice-versa during expiration. Hence there exists between these two muscle groups a floating equilibrium constantly shifting in both directions.

  Dave Gorman

  Inspiration, Breathing, Two

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• With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a windowpane. Watercolour perfectly expresses the free side of my nature.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Ice, Snow, Tree

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• Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it.

  Ray Mears

  Fire, Three, Woods

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• The toughest thing for a homeschooler is the same as for a school teacher - shifting from a weak tea vision of math being grinding calculations to a rich frothy mug of math as an active way of thinking.

  John Golden

  Education, Teacher, School

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• Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Memories, Butterfly, Mean

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.10, Granta Books

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• Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Mean, Expression, Feelings

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• I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing". Between the two, my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Wisdom, Love You, Like Love

  "I am That". Book by Nisargadatta Maharaj, 2005.

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• Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation.

  Mason Cooley

  Technology, Law, Civilization

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• Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.

  George Santayana

  Memories, Past, Echoes

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.375, 谷月社

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• Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Past, Entrepreneur

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• To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which, incidentally, is what really destroyed the old world of kings and aristocracies. Technology is shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite. Now it’s the people who are taking control.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Kings, Technology, Media

  "His Space". Interview with Spencer Reiss, www.wired.com. July 1, 2006.

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• The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies The right way to respond to this if you are a company is to put the vast majority of your energy, attention and dollars into building a great product or service and put a smaller amount into shouting about it, marketing it.

  Jeff Bezos

  Marketing, Balance, Energy

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• There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the shifting tonalities of light that transform the domestic and ordinary into the strange and extraordinary that, combined with tenderness of address, approach the worshipful and make a number of these poems so moving and distinctive.

  August Kleinzahler

  Moving, Loss, Motherhood

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• Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use.

  Clarence Darrow

  Honesty, Lying, Law

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• But that's kind of an easy stance to be if you're a humor columnist, because you're tending to make fun of the government and the powerful. I'm sort of a soft-core libertarian in that my compass is generally pointing away from 'Let's let the government do this' Does it matter to me that it's Democrats who think we need more elaborate programs that involve shifting money from one group to another group or it's Republicans saying we need to take a harder look at what kinds of things people are watching on cable TV? Neither one of those things strikes me as a good idea.

  Dave Barry

  Fun, Powerful, Thinking

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• Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life. Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Gratitude, Powerful, Grateful

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• I admire David De Gea. I cannot remember anyone coming into Manchester United and being criticised the way he was. He was the subject of every debate in the media. You haven’t seen De Gea defend himself in the media or shifting the blame elsewhere. He just gets on with it.

  Peter Schmeichel

  Media, Way, Blame

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• All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse original conceptions of space, but this vision remains fragmentary. It must be sought in the magical locales of fairy tales and surrealist writings: castles, endless walls, little forgotten bars, mammoth caverns, casino mirrors.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Wall, Moving, Writing

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.5, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• There will be a shifting of the poles. There will be upheavals in the Arctic and the Antarctic that will make fotr the eruption of volcanos in the Torrid areas... The upper portion of Europe will be changed in the blink of an eye. The earth will be broken up in the western portion of America. The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea.

  Edgar Cayce

  Eye, Japan, Europe

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• With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi.

  William Alexander Percy

  Country, Mean, Rivers

  William Alexander Percy (1973). “Lanterns on the Levee; Recollections of a Planter's Son”, p.4, LSU Press

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• The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.

  David Abram

  World, Mood, Fluid

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