Currents Quotes

• In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Thomas Jefferson (2013). “The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible”, p.139, BookBaby

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• Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

  Assata Shakur

  Issues, People, Hip Hop

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• An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision.

  Peter Senge

  Reality, Views, Vision

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.115, Random House

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• I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

  Drew Barrymore

  Beach, Ocean, Wave Of Life

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• You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Oar, Ifs

  "Kris Kristofferson: What I've Learned" by Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

  William Shakespeare

  Opportunity, Sea Voyage, Venture

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• At the beach, life is different. Time doesn't move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun.

  Sandy Gingras

  Beach, Ocean, Moving

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• The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

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• We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

  John F. Kennedy

  Beach, Ocean, Marine

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• Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Historical, Different, Subjects

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History”, p.63, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

  Richard Wagner

  Vibrations, Inspired, Divine

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• The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.

  Emma Bonino

  Two, Political, Individualism

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• Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

  Carl Jung

  Moving, Thoughtful, Long Distance

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Nature, Mean

  Nature, rev. ed., ch. 1 (1849)

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• I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time

  Franz Boas

  May, Anthropology, Immortal

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• The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.

  Terry Eagleton

  Struggle, Heart, Political

  "Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

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• I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.

  Frida Kahlo

  Rain, Love You, Love Is

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• Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

  William James

  Knowledge, Occupation, Life Is

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.120, University of Illinois Press

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• So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Tattoo, Time

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).

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• The sun shines not on us but in us.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Strength, Emotional

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.92, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Hue, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Impact, Atmosphere

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• There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Taken, Opportunity

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

  Nikola Tesla

  Civilization, Progress, Dormant

  "When woman is boss". "Colliers" Magazine, January 30, 1926.

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• One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

  Anish Kapoor

  Art, Contemporary, Seems

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