Diagrams Quotes - Page 2

• Someone once told me that the finer points of devotion are about the size of a pinhole, and there are millions of them. And if you could connect each dot, then you’ve got a diagram of what you think you thought you knew, and if you’re willing to admit that you know nothing…you have the blueprint for a breakthrough.

  Shane Koyczan

  Thinking, Dots, Size

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• Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.

  Zaha Hadid

  People, Doctrine, Logic

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

  Sylvia Plath

  Song, Cutting, Bird

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.285, Faber & Faber

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• I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon observation, eked out by good explanatory diagrams and models, and conveyed by a teacher whose own knowledge has been acquired by a study of the facts; and not the mere catechismal parrot-work which too often usurps the place of elementary teaching.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1882). “Science and Culture: And Other Essays”

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• I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert; even the clouds are inert. It makes me feel a little better. But I do have a faith that it is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.

  Philip Guston

  Country, Nature, Real

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.54, Univ of California Press

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• Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.

  Agnes Smedley

  Education, Book, Men

  Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.262, Courier Corporation

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• We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Sea, Earthquakes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.262

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• It's language as a kind of structural system. A diagram of a sentence, now that seems like a kind of architectural model. I don't know how to explain it, but it would be nice to try. Why, why this fascination?

  Vito Acconci

  Nice, Trying, Fascination

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 2007.

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• Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

  Willis Polk

  Long, Gone, Noble

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• It is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.

  Philip Guston

  Thinking, Each Day, Paint

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.54, Univ of California Press

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• I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams.' I think 'Cuban Linx 2' will have the Clan back where they need to be, but then it's up for the Clan to be back where they need to be, too. 'Cos it ain't just the album, you know what I mean? It's everything.

  Raekwon

  Mean, Thinking, Albums

  "The return of Raekwon". Interview with Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2009.

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• The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Curves, Achievement

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• I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk all day, put all sorts of diagrams on the board, but a habit is not going to change. It's a conditional reflex, created by a repetitive act.

  Pete Newell

  Believe, Boards, Pieces

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• Across the room, Hale smiled slightly. 'We can draw you a diagram if you need it.' 'No thanks,' Nick said. 'I think I've got everyone but you.

  Ally Carter

  Thinking, Needs, Rooms

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• Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the sentence

  Adrienne Rich

  Sleep, Dark, Thinking

  Adrienne Rich (2011). “Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010: Poems 2007–2010”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Still, this whole grim reaper thing should have come with a manual. Or a diagram of some kind. A flowchart would have been nice.

  Darynda Jones

  Nice, Should Have, Kind

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.165, St. Martin's Press

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• It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.

  Sara Zarr

  Tragedy

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• To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme but that's not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape and control. Even after death, most particularly after death, the search continues. Burial rites are an attempt to complete the scheme, in ritual. Picture a state funeral, Jack. It is all precision, detail, order, design. The nation holds its breath. - (WN 292)

  Don DeLillo

  Order, Design, Funeral

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• The overlap in the Venn diagram of things that men hate for women to wear and the things that I love to wear, it's almost a full overlap on the Venn diagram, which is unfortunate for me.

  Mindy Kaling

  Hate, Men, Unfortunate

  "Mindy Kaling Loves Rom Coms (And Being The Boss)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 17, 2017.

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• I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.

  Joan Jett

  Guitar, Hands, Play

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• I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Cute, Past, Years

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• If I'm interviewing someone I need to know everything about them - I do these massive spider diagrams. Everything under different categories, and certain questions in other categories.

  Cat Deeley

  Different, Needs, Spiders

  "Nerdy but nice". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2011.

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• Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

  Daniel Burnham

  Motivational, Leadership, Dream

  Quoted in Collier's, 6 July 1912

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• More than anything, the journal wanted. It wanted more than it could hold, more than words could describe, more than diagrams could illustrate. Longing burst from the pages, in every frantic line and every hectic sketch and every dark-printed definition. There was something pained and melancholy about it.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dark, Lines, Definitions

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.70, Scholastic Inc.

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• Using the Product Development Waterfall diagram for Customer Development activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature. They both measure something, but not the thing you wanted.

  Steve Blank

  Trust, Development, Waterfalls

  Steve Blank (2013). “The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win”, p.29, BookBaby

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