Feats Quotes - Page 7

When people say that kids change your life, it's no small feat what they do. I've stressed about competition my whole life, but the minute I held my son Blaise in my arms for the first time, those stresses diminished.

Amanda Beard

Stress, Kids, Son

"Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbor multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behavior. As a result, you can accomplish the strange feats of arguing with yourself, cursing at yourself, and cajoling yourself to do something - feats that modern computers simply do not do.

David Eagleman

Brain, Battle, Different

Source: www.goodreads.com

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But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for every high a corresponding low; for every fictitious god-like moment an equivalent time in reptilian slime. For every feat of telescoping long days and weeks of life into mad magnificent instants, one must pay with shortened life, and, oft-times, with savage usury added.

Jack London

Iron, Mad, Long

Jack London (2016). “John Barleycorn”, p.28, Xist Publishing

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The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.

Lee Child

Imagination, Fiction, Today

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Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction to four as compared to the number then often prevailing; moreover, Mohammed specified that a man should acquire more than one wife only if he could treat them all with equal justice - obviously a difficult feat for even the most diligent man to achieve. In effect, then, the Prophet curtailed the number of wives.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Men, Numbers, Justice

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) (1962). “Maʼmūriyyat barȧ-yi vaṭanam”

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The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.

Brian Aldiss

Lying, Achievement, Apes

1969 On space flight, in The Guardian.

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It seems that these phenomenal feats that race car drivers are performing are instinctive. They [require] very little mental workload.

Chris Gerdes

Technology, Race, Car

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The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.

Patricia T. O'Conner

Reading, Civilization, Reader

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The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greatness, Class, Skulls

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.352

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From snake - charmers, we are now a nation of mouse- charmers. Our youngsters are shaping the world with the click of a mouse with their feats in the IT sector.

Narendra Modi

Technology, Snakes, India

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It fulfils the purpose of Universities if they can find out ways of achieving those feats which haven't been achieved till now.

Narendra Modi

Education, Purpose, Way

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...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.

Julian Huxley

Honesty, Memories, Discovery

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It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.

Charles Caleb Colton

Taken, Ignorance, Men

Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

Honore de Balzac

Names, Weather, Earth

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It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.

Frank Kermode

Trying, Way, Helping

Frank Kermode (2000). “The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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But nothing is better than a truth which appears not to have the semblance of truth. There is always something incomprehensible about the great heroic deeds performed by humanity because they rise so far beyond the mediocre measure of mere mortals; but it is always only because of the incredible feats that human beings have accomplished that humanity recovers its faith in itself.

Stefan Zweig

Truth, Heroic Deeds, Humanity

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Yul Brynner's performance in "The King and I," . . . can no longer be regarded as a feat of acting or even endurance. After 30-odd . . . Mr Brynner is, quite simply, The King.

Frank Rich

Kings, Acting, Endurance

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How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself? What tremendous feat of dialectic could carry with it a tenth the power of a single gutted ship with its ghastly cargo?

Isaac Asimov

War, Men, Looks

Isaac Asimov (1952). “Triangle: The currents of space; Pebble in the sky; The stars, like dust”

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The fact that a total of 18 musicians humbly came together to share the glory and create something this original, epic, and downright heavy, is a feat worthy of deep respect.

James Moore

Epic, Together, Musician

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Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

Chris Priestley

Mean, Imagination, Doe

Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing

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The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.

Anthony de Mello

Love, Hate, Achievement

Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.59, Image

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We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat.

Tracy Austin

Two, Numbers, Giving

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Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.

William Cowper

War, Hero, Writing

William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1839). “Poems with a Memoir of the Author by Henry Stebbing”, p.268

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My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man's sin not disturb you in your efforts, do not feat that it will dampen your endeavor and keep it from being fulfilled, do not say, Sin is strong, impiety is strong, the bad environment is strong, and we are lonely and powerless, the bad environment will dampen us and keep our good endeavor from being fulfilled. Flee from such despondency, my children! There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for the sins of men.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Lonely, Strong, Children

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In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award for accomplishing with pinpoint precision and unerring reliability, the feat of sitting exactly where it is sitting. Nothing would prevent us from agreeing with the cognitive scientist Zenon Pylyshyn that rocks are smarter than cats because rocks have the sense to go away when you kick them.

Steven Pinker

Cat, Awards, Rocks

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