Initials Quotes - Page 18

• I think it's safe to say that it's rather premature for anyone to make any initial assessment or analysis of Kim Jong-un, or have an accurate impression on Kim Jong-un.

  Lee Myung-bak

  Thinking, Assessment, Analysis

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• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  Ian MacKaye

  Trying, Sound, Band

  "Ian MacKaye" by Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 20, 2007.

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• So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.

  Rose Tremain

  Thinking, Research, Territory

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• We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.

  Robert Genn

  Skills, Focus, Effort

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• Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth

  Emily Dickinson

  Strong Women, Inspirational Life, Earth

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.411, Harvard University Press

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• An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.

  Max Planck

  Success, Failure, Science

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• A teacher will have an initial contact at some point with someone. It happens inwardly first. Before you ever meet an advanced teacher, they have somehow traveled inwardly along the astral planes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Firsts, Enlightened

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• The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you did not own land, and that was basically you had to be a white man who owned land. Now how did they get that land? They basically had to steal it from someone, and that would be probably the Indians. And so most of the initial founding fathers were, while they may have had some really nice ideas about democracy, they had a lot of issues with people of color. They had a lot of issues with people who held things that they coveted.

  Winona LaDuke

  Country, Father, Nice

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• There's nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that's what's most precious.

  Ricky Gervais

  Writing, Ideas, Perfect

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.

  Alain Resnais

  Film, Reason, Reactions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Past, Lines, May

  "History as a System". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, transleted by ‎Helene Weyl. Chapter "Man has no nature", 1962.

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• Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?

  Lily King

  Illusion, Disappoint

  Lily King (2007). “The English Teacher”, p.105, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among millions; biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God; geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Home, Average, Taught Us

  Stephen Jay Gould (1992). “Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History”, p.147, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Progress, Matter, March

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, 1990.

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• After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be 'turned on' to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention.

  Norman Doidge

  Knowledge, Long, Effort

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• I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial learning process. The things we now do automatically, such as perspective, pencil control, values and composition were as unfamiliar and intimidating as a foreign language.

  Ted Martinez

  Determination, Frustration, Perspective

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• Monopathy, or over-specialisation, eventually retreats into defending what one has learnt rather than making new connections. The initial spurt of learning gives out, and the expert is left, like an animal, merely defending his territory.

  Robert Twigger

  Animal, Giving, Connections

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• Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.

  Neil Gaiman

  Decision, Magic, Concerned

  "The Books of Magic (Book IV: The Road to Nowhere)". Comic book mini-series by Neil Gaiman, 1990-1991.

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• No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored, after the initial judgements of contemporaries had been made.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Years, Judgement, Lasts

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• Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials A. V. R. E. as preface to his birthright of J for Jones. His character apparently justified the chance concomitance. He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Character, Average, Parent

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2015). “Average Jones”, p.3, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Knowledge Of God, Steps, Creation

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• Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality. Ninety-
  nine percent of all that is going to affect our tomorrows is being developed by humans using instruments and working in ranges of reality that are nonhumanly sensible.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Reality, Smell, Ninety Nine

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Education Automation: Comprehensive Learning for Emergent Humanity”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I realized that I could have been in galleries much sooner. I just needed to get past the fear of rejection. I still feel nervous when I approach a new gallery, although it has become more like a job now. The first step on this long road was getting past that initial fear.

  Mark Edward

  Jobs, Past, Long

  "Do The Things Other People Fear". markedwardadams.com. April 29, 2013.

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• Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the first draft of a manuscript. When he or she elaborates on the initial manuscript, it continues to strengthen and simplify that natural, deep voice.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Voice, Style, Firsts

  "Kenzaburo Oe, The Art of Fiction No. 195". Interviewed with Sarah Fay, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 2007.

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• Too many times I've heard records from bands who were obviously, like, 'Well, we're at least gonna do half as well as we did on our last record. At least we can count on that.' You really have to keep that initial hunger that made some of your first best songs your first best songs. You have to keep that fire in the belly.

  Chad Kroeger

  Song, Fire, Band

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