Familiarity Quotes - Page 12

• Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.

  Sarah Dessen

  Assuming, Stranger, Odd

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.55, Penguin

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• The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

  Saint Augustine

  Long, Soul, Doe

  Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.151, OUP Oxford

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• (What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  World, Blind, Strangeness

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• I'm really interested in the idea of anomynity and familiarity. And sunglasses, you know, are so indicatitve of that. I mean, they're worn by some people to hide themselves. But they're also a fashion statement, meant to be noticed. So there's a dichotomy there.

  Sarah Dessen

  Fashion, Mean, Ideas

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• Potter is mocked by a faculty member for the idea that there is evil in the world from which even children need to learn to defend themselves by the actual practice of doing so rather than familiarity with theory.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Practice, Ideas

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• Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the same time remarkably intimate and necessarily other. The classic seven-year itch may not be a case of familiarity breeding ennui and contempt, but the shock of having someone you thought you knew all too well suddenly seem a stranger. When that happens, you are compelled to either recommit to the relationship or get the hell out. There are many such times in a marriage.

  Kathleen Norris

  Seven Years, May, Classic

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• I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Blessing, Long, Boredom

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• The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling originates in preaching. Personal counseling imparts to the preacher a practical familiarity with human nature which he would not otherwise obtain.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Running, Circles, Groups

  "Preaching as Counseling : The Unique Method of Harry Emerson Fosdick". Book by Edmund Holt Linn, 1966.

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• The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Tales, Truest

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• Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are.

  Mark Lawson

  Photography, Sex, Stars

  "Who cares what the reviews say?" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2006.

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• Consistency breeds familiarity, familiarity breeds confidence, and confidence breeds sales.

  Jay Conrad Levinson

  Consistency

  Jay Conrad Levinson (2007). “Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your SmallBusiness”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I like filmmakers that try to touch upon the metaphysical, the things that are behind all this, that you can't actually physically interact with, but are somehow intuitively there. Maybe you can see the ashes of that fire or the echoes of something happening on a domain not-here, whether that be coincidence, whether that be familiarity with somebody who's a stranger.

  Mike Cahill

  Fire, Echoes, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

  Honore de Balzac

  Monsters

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.89, The Floating Press

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• Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

  George Santayana

  Inattention, Contempt, Familiarity Breeds Contempt

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.103, Courier Corporation

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• Self-mastery calls for thorough familiarity with one's mental and emotional strengths. And it calls for sustaining a commitment to personal growth - the understanding of what makes you tick as an individual - as well as personal development.

  Charles Garfield

  Commitment, Emotional, Self

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• Though some choices may slow our journey, every path we take gives us more familiarity with how our actions affect the world around us, giving us more opportunities to learn how to help ourselves and others.

  Matthew Underwood

  Opportunity, Journey, Giving

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

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• Advertising produces familiarity which produces sales

  Paul Cookson

  Advertising, Produce

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• Familiarity breeds attempt. Time wounds all heels. I went down on the Lower East Side today and saw all those Old Testament houses. We're all cremated equal. We're insufferable friends. I've been working my head to the bone.

  Goodman Ace

  House, East, Today

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• It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to group.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Space, Facts

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.176, Broadview Press

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• Proximity doesn't breed familiarity.

  Maureen Johnson

  Proximity

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.9, Penguin

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• If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother to reject the code of Hammurabi. Presumably it is because Moses is still felt to make some claim on us that this project of discrediting his law is persisted in with such energy. The unscholarly character of the project may derive from the supposed familiarity of the subject.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Character, Law, Energy

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• Vonnegut's earliest novels hint strongly at his familiarity with Wiener's work, The Human Use of Human Beings, especially his first novel, Player Piano (1952), which shows his concern for the social implications of automation, the replacement of human beings with machines.

  David Porush

  Player, Piano, Firsts

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• Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Book, Invisible

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• This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.

  Albert Claude

  Mother, Appreciation, Agony

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• We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this reality and long for the safety and familiarity of sameness, inclusive ways of knowing and living offer us the only true way to emancipate ourselves from the divisions that limit our minds and imaginations.

  Bell Hooks

  Reality, Thinking, Knowing

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