Far Away Quotes - Page 15

• A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

  Earl Weaver

  Player, Should, Said

  Earl Weaver, Terry Pluto (1984). “Weaver on Strategy”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a weirdly seductive anxiety throughout its community. Mary herself was a victim of the seduction; despite the trying and repetitive emotional requirements of her job, she remained eternally fascinated by the wicker-thin girls and their wicker-thin mothers, all of them favoring dark wool skirts and macintoshes and unreadably far-away expressions; if she squinted, they could have emerged intact from any of the last seven decades.

  Heidi Julavits

  Girl, Mother, Running

  Heidi Julavits (2008). “The Uses of Enchantment”, p.14, Anchor

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• Happiness can be close by, even if your heart is far away.

  Lisa Mangum

  Heart, Ifs

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• Not too far away from now - in the next 6-7 years - 75 million Americans will be retail buyers of healthcare. And they'll come to the marketplace with their own money and either a subsidy from their employer or a subsidy from their government. And it doesn't much matter - they'll be spending their money.

  Mark T Bertolini

  Government, Years, Retail

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• My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

  Hedda Sterne

  Beautiful, Ideas, Interesting

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• Most people don’t really want to think independently or make decisions; they’re herd animals with herd instincts to keep to the middle of the group where it’s safest, don’t stand out too much, don’t move too far away from convention, etc. They want to be led and dictated to. But they’re stubborn, mulish animals and they like to think they’re independent and free.

  Blanche Barton

  Moving, Independent, Animal

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• What we do every day - whether you live in
  Mexico, the United States, Russia, China
  can have a very negative impact on
  an entire way of life for an entire people
  far away from that source

  Sheila Watt-Cloutier

  Impact, Russia, People

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• Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is true of all of the rest of us. Striving after originality takes you far away from your true self, and makes your work mediocre.

  Keith Johnstone

  Men, Self, Trying

  Keith Johnstone (2012). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.88, Routledge

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• Within each of us there is an Owl, a Rabbit, and Eeyore, and a Pooh. For too long, we have chosen the way of Owl and Rabbit. Now, like Eeyore, we complain about the results. But that accomplishes nothing. If we are smart, we will choose the way of Pooh. As if from far away, it calls us with the voice of a child's mind. It may be hard to hear at times, but it is important just the same, because without it, we will never find our way through the forest.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Children, Smart, Voice

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• If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.

  Spike Jonze

  Next Week, Next Day, Trying

  "Spike Jonze: Master of the Wild Things" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

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• Nineteen thousand children [are] dying every day. Does it really matter that we're not walking past them in the street? Does it really matter that they're far away? I don't think it does make a morally relevant difference.

  Peter Singer

  Children, Past, Thinking

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• When we wake up to the fact that our thoughts touch the people we are thinking about, we are again asked to choose which thoughts we send out. If we send out the thoughts of the heart, we can heal, even if the person who needs healing is far away.

  Robert Moss

  Healing, Heart, Thinking

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• Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current, rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which brings him rumours of beauty from however far away, as drift-wood is found at sea from islands not yet discovered; and this spring-tide or current that visits the blood of man comes from the fabulous quarter of his lineage, from the legendary, of old; it takes him out to the woodlands, out to the hills; he listens to ancient song.

  Lord Dunsany

  Song, Spring, Twilight

  Lord Dunsany (2015). “The Book of Wonder”, p.4, Booklassic

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• There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves

  Ajahn Chah

  People, Body, Born

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• Some souls think that the Holy Spirit is very far away, far, far, up above. Actually he is, we might say, the divine Person who is most closely present to the creature. He accompanies him everywhere. He penetrates him with himself. He calls him, he protects him. He makes of him his living temple. He defends him. He helps him. He guards him from all his enemies. He is closer to him than his own soul. All the good a soul accomplishes, it carries out under his inspiration, in his light, by his grace and his help.

  Concepcion Cabrera de Armida

  Inspiration, Thinking, Light

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• This is a regional fair that attracts people from the surrounding counties and from further distances. The fair draws people from as far away as Albert Lea, Owatonna and the Twin Cities.

  Eddie Murphy

  Distance, Cities, People

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• That night I lie out under the stars again. The Pleiades are there winking at me. I am no longer on my way from one place to another. I have changed lives. My life now is as black and white as night and day; a life of fierce struggle under the sun, and peaceful reflection under the night sky. I feel as though I am floating on a raft far, far away from any world I ever knew.

  Ted Simon

  Stars, Lying, Struggle

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• With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions are still entirely beyond our reach and far, far away.

  Wernher von Braun

  Future, Space Flight, Challenges

  Wernher Von Braun (1969). “Space Frontier”

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• I have been thinking a lot about these things as I have come to the realization of the tremendous responsibilities which rest upon me. It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God. I am bound to believe that in a tumultuous age like ours the most important and imperative duty is the reconstruction of humanity to Almighty God.

  Warren G. Harding

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

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• To be able to celebrate life is religion. In that very celebration you come close to God. If one is able to celebrate, God is not far away; if one is not able to celebrate life, then God does not exist for him. God appears only in deep celebration, when you are so full of joy that all misery has left you, all darkness has left you.

  Rajneesh

  Joy, Darkness, Doe

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• Celebration is not because some desire is fulfilled - because no desire is ever fulfilled. Desire as such cannot be fulfilled. Desire is only a way to avoid the present moment. Desire creates the future and takes you far away. Desire is a drug; it keeps you stoned, it does not allow you to see the reality - that which is herenow.

  Rajneesh

  Reality, Drug, Desire

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• It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores.

  Katie Holmes

  Party, Shoes, Hollywood

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• The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Perspective, Devil, Ancient

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.277, Modern Library

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• Clean water is only as far away as the nearest tap, and there are taps everywhere. There's a faucet everywhere. But the reality is, the water in our toilets is cleaner than the water that most people are drinking.

  Matt Damon

  Drinking, Reality, People

  "Actor Matt Damon's Clean Water Mission" by Imtiyaz Delawala and Cindy Smith, abcnews.go.com. November 27, 2011.

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• Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.

  Plautus

  Sheep, Conflict

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