Contemplating Quotes - Page 18

• When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.

  Martin Luther

  Hands, Giving, Poor

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.32

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• There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the job was to be done.

  John Shaw Billings

  Jobs, Islands, People

  John Shaw Billings (1965). “Selected papers”

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• Why Do We Procrastinate? P - postponing life R - resisting change O - overly cautious C - contemplating course of action R - reasoning and justifying A - afraid of success S - summoning up some courage T - trouble moving forward I - inability to see the outcome N - not able to trust in your abilities to make decisions A - attempting to control the situation T - time to reflect on your motives E - erodes progress

  Samuel Richardson

  Moving, Decision, Progress

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• Always remembering that we might be wrong, we must contemplate alternatives, concoct hedges, and search vigilantly for validation of our assessments. We always sell when a security's price begins to reflect full value, because we are never sure that our thesis will be precisely correct.

  Seth Klarman

  Assessment, Validation, Alternatives

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• Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Anxiety, Aging, Source

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no way that's going to happen while I'm still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you're away from home for long periods. That's not the kind of father I want to be.

  Jenson Button

  Dad, Father, Selfish

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• As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point of his wondrously serene old age, he contemplates our lives almost as if they were books he can dip into whenever he wants. His back pages, perhaps.

  Angela Carter

  Father, Book, Soul

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.

  Anthony Eden

  Power, Office, Able

  Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) (1965). “The Reckoning: The Memoirs of Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon”

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• As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Vanity, Vices

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated”, p.939, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.

  Juvenal

  Children, Years, Parent

  Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.162

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• Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Heart, Brain, Spirit

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

  Roger Ebert

  Smart, People, Together

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• When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of the miraculous. When people contemplate with open minds the germination of a single seed, they are equally overwhelmed-yet numerous babies are born every day, and no-one marvels. If only people opened their minds, they would see that the birth of a baby, in which a new life is created, is a greater miracle than restoring life.

  Saint Augustine

  Baby, People, Miracle

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• Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Night, Today

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2014

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• If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable magnitude. Mankind alone has the power to carry out this fundamental change in the universe. Our failure would lead to consequences unthinkable. This is perhaps the first and only chance the universe will ever have to awaken from its long night and live. We are the caretakers of this delicate spark of Life. To let it flicker and die through ignorance, neglect, or lack of imagination is a horror too great to contemplate.

  Marshall Savage

  Ignorance, Moon, Night

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• The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the traces of the past. We run too fast, but we still do not move enough. He looks but he does not contemplate, he sees but he does not think.

  Eugenio Montale

  Running, Moving, Past

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• ... many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Suicide, Might, Crisis

  Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Occupy Yourself, Imperfection

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• The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

  James G. Frazer

  Family, Mother, Men

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.

  Dustin Clare

  Honest, Building, Farmers

  "Dustin Clare SPARTACUS: VENGEANCE Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 23, 2012.

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• When contemplating a shield that would protect America for incoming missiles, Democrats suddenly became hardheaded fiscal conservatives. For the first time in recorded history, liberals were concerned about the cost and usefulness of a government program. These people believe federally funded art therapy for the homeless will pay for itself. That you can take to the bank. But a shield to repel incoming nuclear missiles from American soil they said, was too expensive and wouldn't work.

  Ann Coulter

  Art, Believe, America

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• The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.

  John Mortimer

  May, Belief, Significant

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• Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Inevitable, Willing, Ifs

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• The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Reflection, Depth

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• It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.

  Bertrand Russell

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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