Back And Forth Quotes - Page 10

• I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mean, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• That is what they call being reconciled to die. They call it reconciled when pain has strummed a symphony of suffering back and forth across you, up and down, round and round you until each little fibre is worn tissue-thin with aching. And when you are lying beaten, and buffeted, battered and broken - pain goes out, joins hands with Death and comes back to dance, dance, dance, stamp, stamp, stamp down on you until you give up.

  Marita Bonner

  Death, Giving Up, Pain

  Marita Bonner (1987). “Frye Street & environs: the collected works of Marita Bonner”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Belief in oneself is a crucial quality of leadership, because 'a house divided against itself cannot stand.' A leader who fluctuates back and forth sends a very wavery signal. Like the soprano who can shatter glass by finding that high note and holding it, a leader who can hold that high note, without wavering, can shatter walls.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Leadership, Wall, Glasses

  Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

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• It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free to cross back and forth between silence and word. Desire may also find itself so amputated by tradition and community that it wanders in a void with nothing to orient it, to shape or discipline it. Desire must find ways to navigate its bitter and sweet paradox: it moves toward but also always through and beyond every object.

  Wendy Farley

  Sweet, Moving, Wings

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• Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced my professional attitude, my way of approaching both music composition and singing, particularly phrasing.

  Rokia Traore

  Country, Attitude, Musical

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• It is a game of chess with this city. We'll have to see how it is going to play out. The city goes back and forth trying to figure out what programs to cut and what they have funding for. What I would love to see is for the city to step up and run the rink 10 months out of the year so kids can play in the summer and we can have camps here in Glenwood.

  Bill Vaughan

  Summer, Running, Kids

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• I've never had my dexterity called into question, but I think if that was ever the case, I could acquit myself by tossing a ball back and forth horizontally between my hands.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Thinking, Hands, Dexterity

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• The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.

  Alice Sebold

  Unique, Editors, Use

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• When I wrote The Interestings, I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Moving, Book, Giving

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• At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Cat, Dark

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.153, Macmillan

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• I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Book, Library, Remember

  "Interview: Lisa Kleypas, author of 'Crystal Cove'". Interview with Pamela Clare, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. February 14, 2013.

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• When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, 'Do you know how to tell if you're doing the job?' As heads start whispering back and forth, I provide these clue: 'If you're up at 3 A.M. every night talking into a tape recorder and writing notes on scraps of paper, have a knot in your stomach and a rash on your skin, are losing sleep and losing touch with your wife and kids, have no appetite or sense of humor, and feel that everything might turn out wrong, then you're probably doing the job.'

  Bill Walsh

  Jobs, Sleep, Kids

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.26, Penguin

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• CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and the performers.

  Chris Stein

  Real, Rocks, Elements

  Source: time.com

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• I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.

  Frank Oz

  Drama, Dark, People

  "EXCLUSIVE: Frank Oz Works His Magic with Death at a Funeral". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 4, 2008.

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• I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually have three or four things that are open on my desk, on my bed, on audiobook in the car.

  James Patterson

  Book, Reading, Years

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It`s like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the mistress.

  Stephen King

  Book, Play, Wife

  "Stephen King has called Ira Levin-author of 'Rosemary's". Interview with Cheryl Lavin, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 7, 1991.

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• I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it and you can really just over-think everything. I'll go back and forth all the time.

  Kurt Vile

  Song, Thinking, Forever

  "Exclusive: Kurt Vile on the Paranoia and Process Behind His New Record". Interview with Marah Eakin, music.avclub.com. July 21, 2015.

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• Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

  Bruno Dumont

  Light, Shadow, Cinema

  "Juliette Binoche Honored at the Marrakesh International Film Festival" by Karin Badt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2013.

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• What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

  Susan Cain

  Mistake, Tasks, Looks

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.85, Broadway Books

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• I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.

  Leonard Susskind

  Technology, Men, Rocks

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• Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes it's a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Strong, Writing, Differences

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• The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships.

  Gary W. Keller

  People, Giving, Attention

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• Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back and forth. It involves more listening than talking.

  Jack Welch

  Attitude, Real, Communication

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• I'm extremely organized. The more things I have to work on and can bounce back and forth between, the more energized I am.

  Tom Ford

  Organized, Bounce

  "Tom Ford's Tender First Film, A Single Man". Interview with Karen Durbin, www.elle.com. December 11, 2009.

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• I am open to doing anything. I don't think in this day and age that, aside from two or three people, there isn't an actor who can just do one thing. I also think you can go back and forth between film and television pretty seamlessly.

  Adam Pally

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: www.etonline.com

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