Curves Quotes - Page 14

• I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.

  Juan Marichal

  Balls, Want, Catchers

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• If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.

  Jim Rohn

  Self, Use, Answers

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 29, 2015

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• If you know anything about me, you know that my life's taken a few unexpected curves and crashes along the way. But hey, at least I can say I took the scenic route!

  Naomi Judd

  Life, Taken, Hey

  Naomi Judd (2005). “Naomi's Breakthrough Guide: 20 Choices to Transform Your Life”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Imagination, Sanity, Brilliance

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• A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that don’t ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become. Because as every woman knows, measurements are only statistics... and STATISTICS LIE.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Lying, Numbers, Age

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• My mother always taught me never to look back in regret but to move on to the next thing. The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me. I have fun running all the Virgin businesses-so a setback is never a bad experience, just a learning curve.

  Richard Branson

  Success, Mother, Running

  "Richard Branson: Five Questions on Business Philosophy", www.nbcnews.com. October 23, 2010.

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• The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.

  Charles Reznikoff

  Tired, Night, Journey

  Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.157, David R. Godine Publisher

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• But it didn't stop him from loving her just a little. From loving all women-all shapes, all sizes, all walks of life. Their soft skin and softer curves, the way they gasped and giggled and sighed, the way the wealthy ones played their coy games, and the less fortunate ones looked at him, stars in their eyes, eager for his attention. Women were, without a doubt, the Lord's finest creation. And, at twenty-three, he had plans for a lifetime of worshipping them.

  Sarah MacLean

  Stars, Eye, Loving Life

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• ...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.

  Thomas Hardy

  Math, Lines, Graves

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.66, 谷月社

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• Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Travel, White

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.450, Penguin

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• You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell's own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb.

  Frederik Pohl

  Science, Thinking, Progress

  Frederik Pohl (1975). “The best of Frederik Pohl”, Sidgwick & Jackson

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• Straightway is a power word. Straightway is an action word. It means immediately, without delay or hesitation. It means at once. Also, it is associated with having no curve or turn-a straight course, track, or path. Procrastination would be the very opposite of straightway. To procrastinate is to put off intentionally and habitually something that should be done. Procrastination is unproductive delay.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Procrastination, Mean, Opposites

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• I do Pilates and yoga to stay in front of the curve. I feel like it's helping me. Does it work for everybody? I don't know. I'm not a guru on how to be in the best condition. Let me sit here and tell you that. But it works for me.

  LeBron James

  Yoga, Doe, Pilates

  "Heat quotes from Friday: Wade, James, Bosh". Chicago Tribune interview, articles.chicagotribune.com. May 20, 2011.

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• When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.

  Karl Marx

  Fall, Train

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• I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Light, Flying

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• The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom.

  Germaine Greer

  Human Body, Bosoms

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.

  Kurt Sutter

  Games, Long, Guy

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• Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.

  George Eliot

  Love, Summer, Girl

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.113, 谷月社

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• Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line--even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice.

  Isaac Asimov

  Long, Juice, Lines

  Isaac Asimov (2004). “Second Foundation”, p.19, Spectra

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• The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.

  Andy Serkis

  Shots, Learning Curve

  "The Hobbit Gets Andy Serkis as a Second Unit Director" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 6, 2011.

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• If the intensity of the material world is plotted along the horizontal axis, and the response of the human mind is on the vertical, the relation between the two is represented by the logarithmic curve. Could this rule provide a clue to the relationship between the objective measure of information, and our subjective perception of it?

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Axes, Two, Perception

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.85, Harvard University Press

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• The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.)

  Aristotle

  Reality, Hands, Two

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

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• Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Infinite, Constant, Finitude

  Gilles Deleuze (2006). “Foucault”, p.80, A&C Black

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• I love trains. It's the only way to travel anymore where it doesn't involve a TSA agent slowly tracing the curve of my inner thigh.

  Bill Maher

  Tsa, Agents, Way

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• I dont know too many parents that want to feed their kids soda, but high-fructose corn syrup is cheap. The price of soda in 20 years has gone down 40 percent while the price of whole foods, fruits and vegetables, has gone up 40 percent and obesity goes up right along that curve.

  Tom Colicchio

  Kids, Vegetables, Years

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