Glances Quotes - Page 16

• IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.

  Jack Dorsey

  Interesting, Listening, Looks

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• The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Discovery, Genius, Germs

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1864). “Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini”

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• I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and statues, and they live in my embrace. Every woman is to me the gift of a world. I revel in the melody of her countenance, and with a single glance of my eye I can enjoy more than others with their every limb through all their lives.

  Heinrich Heine

  Women, Eye, Yield

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.172

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• The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain. His father was a narrow-minded trader, and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son. Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Father, Eye, Ambition

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2005). “Frankenstein”, p.36, Prestwick House Inc

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• Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Action, Spontaneity, Spontaneous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.148

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• Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Giving, Warning

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• Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Yield, Sound

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• But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Money, Moon, Giving

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• One single glance will conquer all descriptions.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Vision, Conquer, Description

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1850). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments. 1st and 2d Series in One Volume”, p.327

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• No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excites our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope or fear is to fill a vacant hour with prattle, and be forgotten.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Men, Littles

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• Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

  Isadora Duncan

  One Direction, People, Purpose

  Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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• True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehension as well as physical perception. Yet how rarely we have either. We generally only glance at an object long enough to tag it with a name.

  Ross Parmenter

  Emotional, Names, Long

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• We have been flooded with postal cards from all over the United States and several parallel universes. Just a quick glance though these cards is enough to remind you why this great nation, despite all the talk of decline, still leads the world in tranquilizer consumption.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, America

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.190, Crown Archetype

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• No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Thinking, Self, Likes

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.14, Vintage

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• The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.

  Jack Dorsey

  Phones, People, Way

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• And yes, I'll admit, I am jealous. I'm jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought. I want to rip him to pieces and purge him from your mind and from your heart. But I can't.

  Colleen Houck

  Rip, Jealous, Heart

  Colleen Houck (2011). “Tiger's Voyage: Tiger's Curse: Book Three”, p.402, Hachette UK

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• Growing up in a house of five girls, I couldn't help but glance at a fashion magazine or two.

  Karlie Kloss

  Girl, Fashion, Growing Up

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• While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

  Robert E. Howard

  Book, Past, Flying

  Robert E. Howard (2006). “Kull: Exile of Atlantis”, p.316, Del Rey

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• I guess in life I find people who, at first glance, appear to be very typical or average, whatever that means, and then turn out to have hidden qualities.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Mean, Average, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water.

  Teju Cole

  Glasses, Water, Firsts

  Teju Cole (2016). “Known and Strange Things”, p.104, Faber & Faber

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• Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All you need is a cork, a bar magnet, and a pail of water. Simply attach your magnet to your cork, then drop it into the water, and voilà (literally, "you have a compass")-you have a compass. How does it work? Simple. Notice that, no matter which way you turn the bucket, the cork always floats on top of the water (unless the magnet is too heavy). Using this scientific principle, early hardy mariners were able to tell at a glance whether they were sinking!

  Dave Barry

  Science, Simple, Water

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• I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.

  Frederic Chopin

  Music, Giving, Dumb

  "It'll be alright on the night: how musicians cope with performance stress" by David Cox, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2015.

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• Sometimes, when you briefly glance in Hollywood, there's a tendency to play it in a very "Yes, she's exhausted, and yes, she's working, and yes, she's taking care of her kids full time, and yes, she's a mom, but she's also in a great mood all
  the time."

  Patricia Arquette

  Mom, Kids, Play

  "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.

  Anna Brackett

  Travel, Journey, Long

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• All disruptive innovators make it easier and more affordable for people to do what matters to them, and follow a strategy that doesn't at first glance make sense to the market leader.

  Scott D. Anthony

  What Matters, Market Leaders, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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