Enticing Quotes

• Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Leadership, Creativity, Kaleidoscope

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• There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Ocean, Army

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.7, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

  Margaret Laurence

  Education, Holiday, Vacation

  Margaret Laurence (1993). “A Jest of God”, p.66, University of Chicago Press

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• There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

  Vinton Cerf

  Programming

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• Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

  Francis Quarles

  Heart, Luxury, Tails

  Christopher Harvey, Francis Quarles (1808). “The school of the heart, or The heart of itself gone away from God brought back again to him and instructed by him, by Francis Quarles [really by C. Harvey. Adapted from B. van Haeften's Schola cordis]. To which is added, The learning of the heart by the same author [really by C. Harvey. Ed. by C.E. De Coetlogon. Issued as vol. 2 of Emblems divine and moral, by F. Quarles. Wanting the title-leaf and plates].”

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• I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.

  Angela Cartwright

  Thinking, America, Space

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• Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Pain, Work, Loneliness

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• You're invited to tons of parties, and you'll wear these shoes and that dress, and it can be enticing, but I think it also sucks you dry. If you do it a little, sure, it's fun, but too much and you start to lose your footing.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Fun, Party, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer's market and whip up an easy but healthier option.

  Alison Sweeney

  Past, Long, Inspire

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• And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Thinking, House

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• As we have come to view teaching, it begins with an act of reason, continues with a process of reasoning, culminates in performances of imparting, eliciting, involving, or enticing, and is then thought about some more until the process can begin again

  Lee S Shulman

  Teaching, Learning, Views

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• Enticing hope is like lighting candle in the dark room

  Aftab Alam

  Hope, Dark, Light

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• There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take a long and circuitous route after enticing the enemy out of the way, and though starting after him to contrive to reach the goal before him, shows knowledge of the artifice of deviation.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Long

  Sun Tzu (2012). “Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text”, p.118, Tuttle Publishing

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• Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.

  Richard Allington

  Inspiring, Education, Children

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• Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep’s clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, Sheep, Liberty

  Ezra Taft Benson (1964). “Title of liberty”

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• I think so many young girls get caught up in the challenge of being with somebody who's dangerous, who's bad, who's enticing, who's all of those things, and you forget what it's like to enjoy simple love.

  Nikki Reed

  Girl, Simple, Thinking

  Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. October 12, 2009.

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• Poetry is probably the one field of writing in which it is a mistake to try to psych out editors. In fact, specific marketing advice can sometimes harm the novice poet by enticing him to pursue fashions. The poet's best hope is to sound like nobody else, The finest, most enduring poetry constructs a marketplace of its own.

  X. J. Kennedy

  Fashion, Mistake, Writing

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• The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Stars, Men, Hands

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• An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mean, Punishment, Needs

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

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• There are always roles that seem enticing that you can't do because of scheduling.

  John Krasinski

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I really discovered [Dr.Strange] through hearing about this film and first meeting Scott [Derrickson] and getting into it and just opening up and saying, "Okay, this is, like all comics, very much of its era," and my first question was, 'How do you make this film? Why do you make this film now?' and the answers were so enticing that I was like, "I'm in."

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Opening Up, Drs, Answers

  "‘Doctor Strange': Benedict Cumberbatch on His Strange Journey to Becoming the Sorcerer Supreme". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I would say just stop watching me, I guess, at this point. That is what I do, and it probably is, in some way, a bit of a lecture. I can see how that's not something that would be enticing for you to watch in a stand-up hour.

  David Cross

  Watches, Would Be, Way

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like “Midnight in Paris.” Nostalgia isn’t so enticing.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Color, Paris, Midnight

  "Meshell Ndegeocello And Toshi Reagon Discuss Civil Rights, A Modern Day Civil War, And More". Interview with Toshi Reagon, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• I enjoy spending time with other awakened people and feeling the shared vibration of that, whereas just fun for its own sake might no longer be quite so enticing as it used to be.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Fun, People, Feelings

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Distance, Flower, Past

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