Dabbling Quotes

• One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Canvas, Paint, Form

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• Life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Focus And Concentration, Deciding What To Do

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time

  Erykah Badu

  Art, Here And There, Different

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• If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Believe, Amusement

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• Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm that motivates us to give our best.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Pay The Price, Giving, Enthusiasm

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• Dabbling in astrology is like carrying a lucky rabbit's foot as an omen of good luck which costs us very little and might have some beneficial effects.

  Fred Singer

  Good Luck, Feet, Astrology

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• When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Song, Art, Writing

  Biography magazine, April 2002.

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• My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.

  Candace Cameron

  Daughter, Mother, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't really distinguish between a fictional hero and a real life hero as a basis for any comparison. To me, a hero is a hero. I like making pictures about people who have a personal mission in life or at least in the life of a story who start out with certain low expectations and then over achieve our highest expectations for them. That's the kind of character arc I love dabbling in as a director, as a filmmaker.

  Steven Spielberg

  Real, Hero, Character

  Bridge Of Spies Press Conference, www.blackfilm.com. October 12, 2015.

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• There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?

  C. S. Lewis

  Fear, Men, People

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Different, Cinema, Genre

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• I think that we all at some point are in search of something - a higher power, whatever you want to call it, the meaning of life. I know I was, especially at even my son's age in my 20s, and dabbling in Eastern philosophies and yoga and Buddhism and Christianity and Islam. I kind of touched them all, you know, just trying to figure out the meaning of life or if nothing else, figure myself out.

  Denzel Washington

  Philosophy, Yoga, Buddhism

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Facts, Subjects, Knows

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• Now, you believe you are a material person dabbling with. But essentially, you are a spiritual being dabbling with the material world means you have started seeing life with utmost clarity. There are no more illusions about it. You see everything just the way it is.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Believe, Yoga

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• We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos; planting groves of a few familiar trees that homeowners and industries prefer.

  Diane Ackerman

  Eugenics, Shopping, Tree

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• If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point?

  Rick Warren

  Impact, Focus, Trying

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.30, Zondervan

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• I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll.

  John Cale

  Rocks, Personality, Ham

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• Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.

  Herb Ritts

  Photography, Parent, Firsts

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• I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

  Fred Durst

  Thinking, Rocks, Hip Hop

  "Limp Bizkit on their reunion album--and who exactly was to blame for their break up in the first place". Interview with Clark Collis, ew.com. May 5, 2010.

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• The Heidelberg Catechism rightly says, for all Christians who allow the Bible to absorb the world for them - who see reality through the biblical story - that the purpose of life is to glorify God - a personal being who is ultimate over us and everything else - and enjoy him forever. This should be clear to all Christians, but many Christians have been influenced to think otherwise even about the Bible because of dabbling in movements such as the New Age Movement or the Gospel of Health and Wealth or even naturalistic humanism.

  Roger E. Olson

  Christian, Biblical, Reality

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. Liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they were in the days of the late-lamented guillotine. This is what the politicians will not understand; and that is why I hate them. They want only their own special revolutions- external revolutions, political revolutions, etc. But that is only dabbling. What is really needed is a revolution of the human spirit.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Hate, Political Revolution, Liberty

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• It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, I was like any other youngster dabbling with various things - modelling, films - without a definite direction or focus. Now that I'm working with all of them, life has come full circle for me.

  Bipasha Basu

  Circles, Focus, Cinema

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• A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

  James Gibbons

  Ridiculous, Clergymen, Wells

  James Gibbons (2014). “The Faith of Our Fathers”, p.145, The Floating Press

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• All along the backwater,
  Through the rushes tall,
  Ducks are a-dabbling,
  Up tails all!

  Kenneth Grahame

  Ducks, Tails, Wind In The Willows

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Kenneth Grahame (Illustrated)”, p.28, Delphi Classics

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