Delving Quotes

• Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in this world are trivial and fleeting. He must be equipped with the higher knowledge of spiritual joy, available through delving into the inner spring of Bliss. Through his experiences, his heart must have softened and be filled with compassion. He has to be engrossed in promoting the progress of all beings without distinction. And he must be eager to share with others the knowledge he has accumulated and the benefit of his experiences.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Spring, Heart

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  It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

  Claude Monet

  Artist, Reflection, Way

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

  Sally Ride

  Fun, Curiosity, Natural

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• The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Black, Fascination, Form

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• There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Feelings, Adults

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• Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Character, Acting, World

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• I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin

  Anne Tyler

  Character, Writing, Two

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• I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

  James Rollins

  Morning, Procrastination, Thinking

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• Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Book, Reading, Brain

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• The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, Pay, Vote

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.129, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• We need many more intrepid women who set out to expand both their and our concepts of the world. We need them in writing just as we need them in politics. We need that sense of adventure, of reaching wider, delving deeper, pushing further afield, whether that field be geographical, intellectual, political, personal, or all of these and more. Enough with decorousness. Let us risk preconceptions and treasured philosophies, bodies and souls. Let us be big and bawdy and full of courage. Let's go.

  Lesley Hazleton

  Philosophy, Writing, Adventure

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• When one considers the body in relation to dance, it is then that one truly realizes what suffering is: it is a part of our lives. No matter how much we search for it from the outside there is no way we can find it without delving into ourselves.

  Tatsumi Hijikata

  Suffering, Body, Matter

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• Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Reality, Inner Peace

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.132, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

  Martin Luther

  Boys, Men, Doctors

  Martin Luther (2007). “Through the Year with Martin Luther: A Selection of Sermons Celebrating the Feasts and Seasons of the Christian Year”, p.43, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dwarves, World, Nameless

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.490, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student of human nature, to pay attention to his experience, to understand the nature of experience itself. By delving into raw experience and distilling it into a work of art, the writer is engaging in the heart and soul of philosophy - making sense out of life.

  Georg Buhler

  Life, Art, Powerful

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• One cannot inquire into the foundations and nature of mathematics without delving into the question of the operations by which the mathematical activity of the mind is conducted. If one failed to take that into account, then one would be left studying only the language in which mathematics is represented rather than the essence of mathematics.

  L. E. J. Brouwer

  Essence, Mind, Foundation

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• When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. Inner peace is not found by staying on the surface of life, or by attempting to escape from life through any means. Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Mean, Reality, Inner Peace

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.132, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Writing, Dust, Order

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• Fellini was [David] Lynch's master and his biggest idol, and he believed in Fellini's view that film is a dream, it's not reality. It's all about delving into the unconscious.

  Paul Dalio

  Dream, Reality, Views

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• So, though there was still some store of weapons in the Shire, these were used mostly as trophies, hanging above hearths or on walls, or gathered into the museum at Michel Delving. The Mathom-house it was called; for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom. Their dwellings were apt to become rather crowded with mathoms, and many of the presents that passed from hand to hand were of that sort.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wall, Dwelling, Museums

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What does seem to be a constant is that I write more emotional stories the older I get. I think a lot of that has to do with growing up in a patriarchal structure where unemotional intellect (male) is taken more seriously than delving into emotions (female), and gradually freeing myself from those expectations.

  Karin Tidbeck

  Growing Up, Taken, Writing

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Yeah, I think the point has well and truly sunk in by now, and I can just carry on. I don't even know what I'm looking for except a bit of hilarity and mild insanity musically, and I can get none of that by just delving into the history.

  Robert Plant

  Thinking, Insanity, Hilarity

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• I look at it scene-by-scene. Whether it's a historical character or not, whatever, on the page is one thing and delving into the history or somebody is one thing, but making something work for an audience in front of a camera is another exercise and you bring whatever authenticity you can to it.

  Gary Cole

  Character, Exercise, Historical

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for a month on a script in the isolation of a room and really deeply delving into who are these people, what is the story we're telling, how do we want to tell it?

  Karen Allen

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Karen Allen on The Sandlot, liking the fourth Indiana Jones, and being typecast". Interview with Pete Croatto, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2016.

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