Bells Quotes - Page 12

• He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Thinking, Sound

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 2, l. [12]

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• Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog resp‎onding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that "cuts them down" to a size where you know you can effectively handle things.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Strength, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 21, 2012

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• As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, "Six only!" The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: "So sorry, plenty of room in my heart - but the bus is full." He left behind a row of smiling faces. It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it.

  Edwin Francis Gay

  Sorry, Kindness, Heart

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• No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs had through the 1970s in communications. When useful knowledge exists in companies of all sizes and also in universities, non-profits and individual minds, it makes sense to orient your innovation efforts to accessing, building upon and integrating that external knowledge into useful products and services.

  Henry Chesbrough

  Communication, Effort, Innovation

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• How to sustain the miracle
  Of being, that like a muted bell,
  Or like some ocean-breathing shell,
  Quivers, intense and still?

  Babette Deutsch

  Ocean, Breathing, Miracle

  Babette Deutsch (1963). “Collected Poems: 1919-1962”

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• But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am or will be. I'd love to be able to touch a bell and summon the real me, because if I really need myself, I mustn't disappear.

  Pablo Neruda

  Real, Hero, Self

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.475, Macmillan

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• I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rights. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But i can always feel it there, driving me and pushing me forward. It is what makes me win. It makes me enjoy fighting.

  Roberto Duran

  Spring, Fighting, Animal

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• But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

  Andrew Motion

  Writing, Hats, Want

  "Ode to a right royal charmer". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2000.

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• I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see in these the likenesses of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, extensive plains; and you will see there battles and strange figures engaged in violent actions. For in such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of church bells, in whose reverberations you may find every word imaginable.

  Ciaran Carson

  Wall, Eye, Church Bells

  Ciaran Carson (2001). “Shamrock Tea”, Granta Books

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• Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.

  John Donne

  Life, Tolls, Praying

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• Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.

  Emil Nolde

  Passion, Blood, Silver Bells

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• Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist...and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells....By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane.

  Robert Hunter

  Morning, Fall, Blood

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• Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Night, Voice, Tears

  Lady Murasaki, Murasaki Shikibu, Arthur Waley (2000). “The Tale of Genji”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads,
  Great, hollow, bell-like flowers

  Jean Toomer

  Flower, Thunder, Hollow

  Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.10, UNC Press Books

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• Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Curves, Hands, Excellence

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (1999). “First, Break All The Rules: What The Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.

  Victor Hugo

  Christmas, Night, Air

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• Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Land, Heaven

  Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.57

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• Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River,
  And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China;
  Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells
  On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom;
  A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud;
  The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain;
  And now, when the heavens are propitious for action,
  Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Rain, Past

  Wang Wei, “Looking Down In A Spring-Rain”

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• The bells which toll for mankind are - most of them, anyway - like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it must be our fault if they do not make a cheerful and harmonious sound.

  Peter Medawar

  Cheerful, Faults, Necks

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• The sound of a small bell during a dark night, is louder than the din of traffic outside your window during rush hour. Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.

  Seth Godin

  Dark, Night, Impact

  FaceBook post by Seth Godin from Dec 10, 2013

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• But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and random walks define what the future is going to look like. The standard pedagogical argument is that high schools should get rid of calculus and replace it with statistics, which is really important and actually useful. There has been a powerful shift toward the idea that statistical ways of thinking are going to drive the future.

  Peter Thiel

  Powerful, School, Thinking

  "Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 13 Notes Essay". blakemasters.com. May 20, 2012.

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• I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.

  Douglas Coupland

  Taco Bell, Tacos, Helicopters

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.87, Hachette UK

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• There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter.

  Henry Ford

  Jobs, Work, Home

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• Somewhere a bicycle bell rings. Somewhere else there's a war on. Somewhere else people turn to shadows and powder in an instant and the streets turn to funnels and light the sky with their burning. Somewhere a war is over.

  Tim Winton

  War, Light, Somewhere Else

  Tim Winton (2013). “Cloudstreet: A Novel”, p.84, Macmillan

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• A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Jingles, Thrill, Four

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (1966). “The Unmaking of a Mayor”, Viking Adult

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