Extending Quotes - Page 2

• People cannot be expected to learn one expertise and just apply it routinely in a job. Your expertise is in steadily renewing your knowledge base and extending it to new areas. That lifelong cycle of learning really is the foundation of the new information organization and economy.

  George Gilder

  Jobs, Organization, People

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• Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences and arts which have been made within that period. Some of these have rendered the elements themselves subservient to the purposes of man, have harnessed them to the yoke of his labors and effected the great blessings of moderating his own, of accomplishing what was beyond his feeble force, and extending the comforts of life to a much enlarged circle, to those who had before known its necessaries only.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Art, Science

  Thomas Jefferson (1964). “Crusade Against Ignorance”

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• Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Rays, Sun, Awareness

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• Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his mother’s surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however. He must be imagining it. Though…it was also odd that he would imagine his mother thinking such a string of curse words.

  Trudi Canavan

  Mother, Character, Thinking

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• In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending it. There are many things to do. There are books to write and naps to take. There are movies to see and scrambled eggs to eat. Life is essentially trivial. You either decide you will take the trite business of life and give yourself the option of doing something really cool, or you decide you will opt for the Grand Epic of eating disorders and dedicate your life to being seriously trivial.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Book, Writing, Epic

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• Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I've seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a brilliant job of extending it across different platforms and merchandise.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Jobs, Bird, Different

  "Angry Birds Creator Raises $42 Million" by Evelyn M. Rusli, dealbook.nytimes.com. March 10, 2011.

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• We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Peace, Keys, Empowering

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.29, Random House

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• We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Marriage, Positivity

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• The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.

  George Will

  War, Men, Age

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• Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Technology, Thinking, Civilization

  An Introduction to Mathematics ch. 5 (1911)

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• There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Stupid, Kids

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?

  Michio Kaku

  Growing, Body, Organs

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 11, 2011.

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• My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

  Naveen Jain

  Educational, Opportunity, Effort

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• My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

  Dave Grohl

  Hands, Songwriting, Listeners

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• At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  People, Tools, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are markets extending from Mali, Indonesia, way outside the purview of any one government which operated under civil laws, so contracts weren't, except on trust. So they have this free market ideology the moment they have markets operating outside the purview of the states, as prior to that markets had really mainly existed as a side effect of military operations.

  David Graeber

  Military, Government, Law

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?

  Rebecca Solnit

  Plato, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses.

  John Green

  Hands, Ducks, Together

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.105, Penguin

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• Chauncey seethed at the outrageous insult. "And your father?" he demanded, extending the sword. He didn't yet know all his vassals, but he was learning. He would brand the family name of this boy to memory.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Memories, Father, Boys

  Kate Brian, Jessica Verday, Richard Yancey, Scott Westerfeld, Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “All Good Things Come to an End: Free Teen eSampler”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth as if they had substance, pebbles and stone extending to hold the corporal up...knees from buckling...hands from letting go of the blanket.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Letting Go, Hands, Giving

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• Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

  John Scalzi

  Fear, Lines, May

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• And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?

  Bill Bryson

  Food, Thinking, Knitting Needles

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain”, p.145, Random House

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• We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.

  Irvine Welsh

  Real, Careers, Ideas

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• What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Men, Vocabulary, Should Have

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• If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

  Quentin Crisp

  Mean, Hands, Ifs

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