Growing Quotes - Page 32

• Mysticism is the study of power, its use, and its abuse. At every moment you are getting stronger or you are growing weaker. At every moment your attention field is increasing or decreasing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Abuse, Stronger, Attention

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• Growing up I was always prone to obsession, partly because of the way I am, but partly because after feeling so lonely for such a long time, when I found someone or something that I liked, I felt helplessly drawn to it. I suppose that accounts for some of the creepiness in my music.

  Lana Del Rey

  Lonely, Growing Up, Found Someone

  "Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with John Calvert, thequietus.com. October 4, 2011.

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• I am, of comics I was never as big of a fan as I probably could have been I suppose but I'm definitely a fan of science fiction fantasy. My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

  Brandon Routh

  Growing Up, Fans, Fiction

  "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, June 16, 2006.

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• It's just way more fun making art, growing, grinding for a fan base, and traveling the world with a friend.

  Macklemore

  Art, Fun, Fans

  "Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Find Clarity". Interview with Dan Buyanovsky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2012.

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• That's the main thing, looking for interesting characters, good directors, and experiences where you're growing and learning.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Character, Interesting, Directors

  "Nicholas Hoult Talks YOUNG ONES, EQUALS, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, AUTOBAHN, KILL YOUR FRIENDS, and Much More". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 17, 2014.

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• We are going through historic times, and my vision is a world, first of all, in which America continues to be that one indispensable nation. Because we're taking care of our own people, because our economy is strong and our middle class is growing, and people feel like hard work is rewarded, and we are continuing to expand opportunity and diversity and tolerance and respect.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Hard Work, Opportunity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• So far, I've only sailed in the Caribbean. I've sailed the Virgin Island and The Grenadines. I liked all that. We charted some really crummy boats in the Grenadines. That made for an exciting sailing trip (laughs) when everything goes well. When everything goes well. When sails rip, engines freeze up and you find there are organisms growing inside the diesel, it's terrible and amazing stuff.

  Bill Murray

  Rip, Islands, Laughing

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• I started a modeling agency and I had it for about five and a half years and it was the same time I was actually working with the WWE and doing SmackDown. It was really the same principles; because me growing up I didn't have the support, I wasn't told, yes you can do that; you can do anything you want if you put your mind to it.

  Amy Weber

  Growing Up, Yes You Can, Years

  Interview with Mike Furci, www.bullz-eye.com. December 12, 2008.

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• The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence of the few. But a new element of unrest has been added: a growing awareness that mass poverty is caused by defective institutions that prevent our harnessing the physical capabilities of science, engineering, management and labor to create general affluence; in other words, a growing awareness that poverty in any country that is or can be industrialized, is man's not nature's fault.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Country, Men

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• If I didn't get joy from acting, I wouldn't do it. My passion for acting is growing and I love telling good stories and inspiring stories and helping to give a little happiness to the world and perhaps get the audience to think about different issues.

  AnnaSophia Robb

  Passion, Thinking, Issues

  "Annasophia Robb And Bethany Hamilton Talk Soul Surfer: Interview With Shark Victim Surfer And The Actress Who Played Her". Santa Monica Mirror Interview, smmirror.com. April 29, 2011.

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• I think the whole thing is kind of sad, honestly, in the same way that our civilization - particularly the consumers of pop culture - has grown so used to an emasculated, bare-chested leading man that something like simply growing a mustache can impress people.

  Nick Offerman

  Men, Thinking, Civilization

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work.

  Maria Montessori

  Stars, Ocean, Tree

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• After the privatization of public education everyone will get to choose a school that reflects only your own social values. No need for the competition of ideas or critical thinking. So the curriculum will be up to the school to determine. I am certain that the growing percentage of us who have McJobs will welcome this opportunity to spend a large portion of our income on education and choose an ideology at the same time.

  David A. Strauss

  School, Opportunity, Thinking

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• The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing independence of voters, after all, has been proven by the votes in every Presidential election since my childhood and the tendency, frankly, is on the increase.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wise, Lying, Government

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• Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

  E. M. Forster

  Age, Emotion, Growing Old

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• Growing up, I wasnt sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.

  Daniella Alonso

  Growing Up, Acting, Wanted

  "Daniella Alonso Leaves Her 'Caliente' Mark in Hollywood" by Mayara Guimaraes, www.foxnews.com. December 6, 2012.

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• Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people. ... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Growing Up, Character

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• Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.

  May Sarton

  Failure, Artist, Duty

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• Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers.

  May Sarton

  Flower, Passion, Snow

  May Sarton (2014). “Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal”, p.77, Open Road Media

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• The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are interpreted falsely as signs of decay. In youth one does not as often misinterpret the signs; one accepts them, quite rightly, as growing pains. One takes them seriously, listens to them, follows where they lead. ... But in the middle age, because of the false assumption that it is a period of decline, one interprets these life-signs, paradoxically, as signs of approaching death.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Pain, Doubt, Growth

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• Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
  From reveries so airy, from the toil
  Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
  And growing old in drawing nothing up.

  William Cowper

  Drawing, Common Sense, Toil

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 3 'The Garden' l. 187

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• The song
  Of Heaven is ever new; for daily thus,
  And nightly, new discoveries are made
  Of God's unbounded wisdom, power, and love,
  Which give the understanding larger room,
  And swell the hymn with ever-growing praise.

  Robert Pollok

  Song, Discovery, Hymns

  Robert Pollok (1868). “The Course of Time ... Twenty-fourth edition. With a memoir of the author”, p.155

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• Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Eye, Mirrors, Age

  Simone de Beauvoir (1977). “Force of circumstance”

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• ... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame or oil wick or the bulb of a gooseneck desk lamp: a pale, wavering, oblong shimmer, emitting incessant noise, which is to real knowledge or discourse what the manic or weepy protestations of a drunk are to responsible speech. Drunks do have a way of holding an audience, though, and so does the shimmery ill-focused oblong screen.

  Adrienne Rich

  Growing Up, Real, Flames

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• I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.

  Margaret Mead

  Growing Up, Stress, Book

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