Giants Quotes - Page 15

• Even if your competitor is still small in size or weak, you should take him seriously and treat him as a giant. Likewise, even if your competitor is massive in size, you shouldn't regard yourself as a weakling.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, Size

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• It is not that we are short of time....It is the way that we treat time, even the way that we think about it. A time revolution..is the fastest way to make a giant leap in both happiness and effectiveness.

  Richard Koch

  Thinking, Effectiveness, Way

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• New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.

  Adam Savage

  Beautiful, New York, Landscape

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• As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide men with buying power. ... Instead of achieving that kind of distribution, a giant suction pump had by 1929-30 drawn into a few hands an increasing portion of currently produced wealth. ... The other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped.

  Marriner Stoddard Eccles

  Men, Hands, Games

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• But what after all, behind appearances, is this seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself returning again to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a Life that is would be sentient, half-sentient, dimly sentient, wholly sentient and finally struggles to be more than sentient, to be again divinely selfconscious, free, infinite, immortal.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Self, Growth, Mindfulness

  "The Life Divine: Art of living".

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• That Ted Turner is a genius...He has taken what used to be a carnival side show and turned it into a gold mine. Yes - wrestling has become prime time for the masses. He's making these giant men into millionares with movie star status.

  Samantha Barks

  Stars, Taken, Wrestling

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• I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must be a giant- must, that is my word. Obedience, readiness, and love for the cause- if you have these three, nothing can hold you back.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

  Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below, in the gloom, there's light for nothing but mosses and ferns. But when a giant falls, leaving a little space ... then there's a race - between the trees on either side, who want to spread out, and the seedlings below, who race to grow up. Sometimes, you can make your own space.

  Terry Pratchett

  Growing Up, Fall, Sky

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• Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man. To be a giant, and not a dwarf in your profession, you must always be growing. The man that has ceased to go up intellectually has begun to go down.

  William Matthews

  Men, Dwarves, Excellence

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• The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care. We have each other.

  Dave Barry

  Mean, Intelligent, People

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• Get out of your comfort zone. Wake up the sleeping giant in you.

  Chia Thye Poh

  Inspirational, Sleep, Comfort

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• Each American embassy comes with two permanent features - a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Old Glory

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find.

  Veronica Lake

  Girl, Self, Giving

  Veronica Lake, Donald M. Bain (1971). “Veronica”

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• It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.

  Todd Rundgren

  Night, People, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

  Dave Eggers

  Impact, Government, Feet

  "Dave Eggers: From 'staggering genius' to America's conscience" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2010.

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• There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.

  John Milius

  People, Looks, Want

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• If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.

  Max Brooks

  War, Epic, Stories

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• I'm not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I do think I have giant, giant blind spots. It's a very comfortable place to be.

  Ty Burrell

  Taken, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 18, 2009.

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• While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant.

  Thomas Dolby

  Intellectual, Quality, Legs

  Song: Airhead, Album: Aliens Ate My Buick

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• Everyone is entitled to a home where the sun, the stars, open fields, giant trees, and smiling flowers are free to teach an undisturbed lesson of life.

  Jens Jensen

  Life, Smile, Nature

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• When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved 'The Shield.' It was one of the hardest and one of the greatest experiences of my life. But having said that, I'm always thinking about what's next.

  Michael Chiklis

  Thinking, Space, Mourning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Wind, Sea, Ratios

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• The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

  Kim Jong-un

  Cutting, Essence, Shortcuts

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

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• Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? ...What if humanity- that collective noun we so often employ- really is, at a higher level, a singular noun? What it what we perceive in three dimensions as seven billion individual human beings are really all just aspects of one giant being?

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Thinking, Humanity, What If

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• Well, I am a giant pansy and freak out if seaweed touches my leg in the ocean.

  Sara Paxton

  Ocean, Legs, Freak

  "Shark Night 3d: Sara Paxton". www.interviewmagazine.com. August 30, 2011.

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