Cutting Quotes - Page 38

• Everybody wants to be a professional baseball player and, sure, as a kid, I wanted to do that. But once I got cut from my high school team, I figured there wasn't much chance of that ever happening. I'm still in awe of it.

  Mark Buehrle

  Baseball, Team, Kids

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• I need to be more under control. I need to calm down a little bit so I can cut down on the little silly errors I get.

  Delmon Young

  Silly, Errors, Needs

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• I didn't want to be cut, but it made me a better person and a better player.

  Jason Spezza

  Player, Want, Better Person

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• We should be able to bring the practice of meditation hall into our daily lives. We need to discuss among ourselves how to do it. Do you practice breathing between phone calls? Do you practice smiling while cutting carrots? Do you practice relaxation after hard hours of work? These are practical questions. If you know how to apply meditation to dinner time, leisure time, sleeping time, it will penetrate your daily life, and it will also have a tremendous effect on social concerns.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sleep, Practice, Breathing

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• If we cut open the bud of a beautiful rose in order to see how it is 'packed' and what it is going to look like, what sort of a bloom will we get?

  Ian Gardner

  Beautiful, Order, Rose

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• Engaging each moment without reservation cuts through the illusion that things could be other than they are.

  Rami M. Shapiro

  Moments, Illusion, Reservations

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• You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

  Bruce Sterling

  Data, Starting Over, Over You

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• But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ego, Resistance, Communicate

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Whether there were organized orders of builders in the early times no one can tell, through there may have been. No matter; man mixed thought and worship with his work, and as he cut his altar stones and fitted them together he thought out a faith by which to live.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Men, Order, Together

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.24, Lulu Press, Inc

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• My problem with most athletic challenges is training. I'm lazy and find that workouts cut into my drinking time.

  Tim Cahill

  Workout, Drinking, Athletic

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• Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness - that can be a dangerous thing. Then it pushes self criticism aside. There's no reflection.

  Jim Wallis

  Kings, Powerful, Moving

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• Don't cut up your credit cards, the problem is not the cards, it's the lack of financial literacy of the person holding the cards and always make the best out of a bad situation

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Cards, Credit, Financial

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• Well, I worked in a sheet metal factory once and scarred my wrist from the cuts. I found a sympathetic psychiatrist who told the draft board I was insane. We used the scars as proof of a suicide attempt.

  Tom Verlaine

  Suicide, Insane, Boards

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• Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out! The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise. It must be as if the bowstring suddenly cut through the thumb that held it. You mustn't open the right hand on purpose.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Archer, Thinking, Hands

  Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”

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• Joe Biden says the Wall Street crisis is the result of George W. Bush's tax cuts, which makes as much sense as blaming the rising price of fairy dust. But as a wise man once asked, Who gives a rat's patoot what Joe Biden thinks?

  Jonah Goldberg

  Wise, Wall, Men

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• Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.

  Philip Carr-Gomm

  Lying, Past, Roots

  Philip Carr-Gomm (2011). “Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century”, p.61, Random House

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• My hair had been dyed blonde for Dredd. After Dredd, I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so I cut it into a bob with bangs and that's how it was during Being Flynn.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Hair, Bangs, Blonde

  "Olivia Thirlby Talks NOBODY WALKS, What Drew Her to Lena Dunham’s Script, the Film’s Themes of Sexual Energy and Expression and Its Moral Gray Area". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 11, 2012.

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• Being in the Boy Scouts, you don't think about whether people are gay or straight. You're busy putting up tents and learning to cut sausages.

  Boy George

  Gay, Boys, Thinking

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• Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized, but delicately handled by the higher methods, and are warily interpreted, their power of dealing with complicated phenomena is extraordinary. They are the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

  Francis Galton

  Hate, Men, Names

  Natural Inheritance Normal Variability (pp. 62-3)

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• We use a lot of creativity and new technology, cutting edge things to use in our church, but really what it comes down to is God changing a life.

  Kerry Shook

  Creativity, Technology, Church

  "Megachurch Interview: Kerry Shook". Interview with Ed Stetzer, www.christianitytoday.com. September 2008.

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• It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn't be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.

  Grace Jones

  Uncles, Hair, Bishops

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• I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.

  George Washington

  Lying, Tree, Cherries

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• It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.

  George Burns

  Running, Hair, Government

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• The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

  Isabel Allende

  Years, Roots, Venezuela

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• One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small words that add nothing to meaning but keep up the flow and rhythm of thought. In writing, not only does this surplusage not add to meaning, it subtracts from it. Read and revise, reread and revise, keeping reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought.

  Jacques Barzun

  Reading, Writing, Numbers

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