Feats Quotes

• Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

  Harry Houdini

  Kings, Fire, Coal

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.39, 谷月社

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• Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Positive, Running

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• People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Men, Games

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• There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Strength, Courage, Endurance

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1846). “Thoughts on the Poets”, p.240

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• The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

  Henry Ford

  Humor, Boredom, Deep Thought

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• In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.

  Harry Houdini

  Fire, Flames, Mouths

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.39, 谷月社

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• Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

  Amelia Earhart

  Women, Airplane, Sisterhood

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• Simply because you can perform feats of power does not mean you are, in the classical sense, fully enlightened. It means that you have mastered a few aspects of the mystical kundalini. That's all it means.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Buddhism, Doe

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• The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.

  Claire Cameron

  Survivor, Capacity, Related

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• Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Respect, Attitude, Literature

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• A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

  Graham Greene

  Daring, Whole, Conception

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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• People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Years, Weather, Voice

  Martha Gellhorn (1959). “The Face of War”

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• The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because these artists of the sixteenth century imitated human forms, they were not superior to the artists of the high periods of Egyptian, Chaldean, Indochinese, Roman, and Gothic art who interpreted and stylized form but did not imitate it.

  Fernand Leger

  Art, Progress, Faces

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• Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  Phrases, Use, Achieve

  Henry Watson Fowler (1994). “A Dictionary of Modern English Usage”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions

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• Don Juan assured me that in order to accomplish the feat of making myself miserable I had to work in the most intense fashion, and that it was absurd. I had now realized I could work just the same in making myself complete and strong. "The trick is in what one emphasizes," he said. "We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."

  Carlos Castaneda

  Fashion, Strong, Order

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• It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

  Ovid

  Art, Chance, Increase

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• A feat - of access and of passionate and appropriately unsettling political commentary.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum

  Political, Passionate, Commentary

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• Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a geographical expedition than a military campaign. .... a Greek army had reached what they regarded as the end of the earth. They had pitted themselves against the ultimate as bravely as the yogins had struggled to break through the limits of the human psyche. Where mystics had conquered interior space, Alexander explored the farthest reaches of the physical world. .... like many of the axial sages, he was constantly 'straining after more'.

  Karen Armstrong

  Military, Army, Years

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• The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

  Thomas More

  Peace, Delight, Chivalry

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• My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Hero, Careers, Guy

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

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• It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Saws

  Mickey Mantle (1986). “The Mick”, Jove Publications

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• ...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Simple

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• A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Numbers, Quality

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Irreparable Harm, Quality

  Interview with John Richardson, December 1, 1957.

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