Distance Quotes - Page 32

• The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings.

  John Locke

  Father, Son, Would Be

  John Locke, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, Nathan Tarcov (1996). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, Hackett Publishing

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• There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers, (Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,) At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance Of about one year and a half.

  Henry Reed

  Years, Judging, House

  1946 Lessons of theWar, pt.2,'Judging Distances'.

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• It was this feeling the whole time like I shouldn't be here among all these stars and professionals. I was trying to keep my distance because I wanted to watch everyone. But they want you to feel at home and be part of it, and it became normal very quickly.

  Evanna Lynch

  Stars, Home, Feelings

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• One of the beauties of working in radio is the way a whole setting can be richly evoked simply by the addition to the track of a little birdsong and a church bell in the distance.

  Peter Blegvad

  Church Bells, Track, Radio

  Interview with Franklin Bruno, believermag.com. November 1, 2009.

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• If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go into the air, and then they go into somebody's body through their ears, so it's kind of like penetrating somebody. It's kind of like having sex with somebody - but, obviously, from a great distance.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Sex, Air

  Interview with Wes Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

  Sophie Calle

  Art, Way, Catalyst

  Interview with Louise Neri, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 7, 2009.

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• We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything. Several new science papers suggest that getting away is an essential habit of effective thinking. When we escape from the place we spend most of our time, the mind is suddenly made aware of all those errant ideas we'd previously suppressed. We start thinking about obscure possibilitiebsthat never would have occurred to us if we'd stayed home.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Home, Creativity, Thinking

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• That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found that in a precarious situation, a smile is the shortest distance between people. When one needs to reach out for sympathy or a link with people, what better way is there?

  Victor Borge

  People, Needs, Links

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• When I say the grace of wildness, what I mean is its autonomy, its self-possession, the fact that it has nothing to do with us. The grace is in the separation, the distance, the sense of a self-sustaining way of life.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Mean, Self, Grace

  Verlyn Klinkenborg (2013). “More Scenes from the Rural Life”, p.81, Princeton Architectural Press

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• The legislatures will have better means of information. They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of civil power, and the confidence of the people, they can at once adopt a regular plan of opposition, in which they can combine all the resources of the community. They can readily communicate with each other in the different States, and unite their common forces for the protection of their common liberty.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Mean, People, Community

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.135, Coventry House Publishing

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• The aikido term ma ai, which means "space harmony" ("ai" is Chinese for "love," and it translates into Japanese as harmonious connection) refers to the optimal distance point, where you're close enough to connect well and far enough to enjoy your own space.

  Stephen Gilligan

  Mean, Space, Chinese

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• That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.

  Isaac Newton

  Fall, Philosophical, Believe

  Sir Isaac Newton, Florian Cajori (1946). “Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World”, p.636, Univ of California Press

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• I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly better writer than me is brilliant. So of course that makes me a horrible critic when it comes to books, because I can't distance my own experience from what I'm doing.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Book, Thinking, Brilliant

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Book, Writing, Mean

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Christian, Church, Christian Church

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• Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush.

  Noam Chomsky

  Wind, Patterns, Green

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “At War with Asia”, p.203, AK Press

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• The actual distance a bad golfer is going to hit the ball with any club obviously depends on many factors, not the least of which is whether the ball was actually hit at all.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Golf, Balls, Clubs

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• Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in.

  Coleman Barks

  Going Away, Pushing Away, Longing

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• The shortest distance between where we are today as a nation and an effective return to increasing our freedoms and widespread prosperity is for regular American citizens to read and study the great books.

  Oliver DeMille

  Book, Citizens, Today

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• The distance we feel from our actions is proportionate to our ignorance of them; our ignorance, in turn, is largely a measure of the length of the chain of intermediaries between ourselves and our acts.

  John Lachs

  Ignorance, Our Actions, Length

  John Lachs (2014). “Freedom and Limits”, p.163, Oxford University Press

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• Zurich in 1915,... While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with all our soul. We searched for an elementary art that would, we thought, save mankind from the madness of these times.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Zurich, Soul

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• At the World Cup, there is a constant risk that you might find a bag or some object that has been left behind, and no one is quite sure what it is. To bring in a full bomb-disposal team for each item can be very time-consuming. The PackBot can go over rough terrain, climb stairs, pick things up, and also be operated from a safe distance.

  Colin Angle

  Team, Risk, World

  "My Roomba's Name Is Roswell". Interview with Celeste Biever, www.slate.com. March 23, 2014.

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• I think the first film you do with your instincts because you haven't learned with another director or you haven't worked on other films, so you tend to do things your own way. I think what I learned the most was to take your time, to try to be less rushed into things and have some distance with what you're doing.

  Nadine Labaki

  Thinking, Trying, Directors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Artist, Reality, Producers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• From a distance I became more convinced than ever that Almighty God destined us to become a great people.

  Janio Quadros

  People, Almighty, Destined

  "Brazil: One Man's Cup of Coffee", content.time.com. June 30, 1961.

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