Initials Quotes - Page 6

• Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's an initial uprush of relief at first, then-for me, anyway- a profound dislocation. My old assumptions about how the world works are buried, yet my new ones aren't yet operational.There's been a death of sorts, but without a few days in hell, no resurrection is possible.

  Mary Karr

  Dark, Long, Profound

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• I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

  Yanni

  Writing, Frustration, Waiting

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• Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They come so rarely and with little fanfare, those moments. They're not particularly photogenic. There's no breach in the clouds to reveal the shining city on a hill. No folk dancing children outside your bus, no production values to speak of- just a glimpse of such quotidian, incontrovertible truth that after the initial shock at the supreme weirdness of it all, a kind of calm sets in. So this is to be my life.

  David Rakoff

  Children, Cities, Clouds

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• My initial thoughts about what a title can do was to set mood and the prime underlying core of the film's story, to express the story in some metaphorical way. I saw the title as a way of conditioning the audience, so that when the film actually began, viewers would already have an emotional resonance with it.

  Saul Bass

  Emotional, Stories, Way

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

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• Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance, adjusted by changes in labor and capital inputs. This is somewhat similar to the definition of normal profits under some versions of the wartime excess -profits tax. Entitlements would be transferable and a competitive market established.

  William Vickrey

  Past, Would Be, Entitlement

  "Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey".

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• While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States.

  Jonathan Turley

  War, President, United States

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• What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Anxiety, Feelings, Want

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• Once I finally stepped on the moon, no matter what was to come of the next three days - or the rest of my life - nobody could take those steps from me. People ask how long will they be there, and I say forever, however long forever is, like my daughter’s initials that I scribbled in the sand [TDC for Tracy Dawn Cernan].

  Gene Cernan

  Daughter, Moon, Long

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• Because of the attitude of a few mental dinosaurs intent on exploiting our initial success, Brian's huge talent has never been fully appreciated in America and the potential of the group has been stifled.... If the Beatles had suffered this kind of misrepresentation, they would have never got past singing 'Please Please Me' and 'I WannaHold Your Hand' and leaping around in Beatle suits.

  Dennis Wilson

  Attitude, Past, Hands

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• If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Giving, Firsts, Toys

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• All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory.

  Willard Gaylin

  Independence, Finals, Libertarian

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• The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and courage, into our own suffering. We often hold the tacit assumption that all of our suffering stems from events in the past. But, whatever the initial seed of trauma, the deeper truth is that our suffering is more closely a result of how we deal with the effect these past events have on us in the present.

  Peter A. Levine

  Past, Suffering, Looks

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• Mathematical study and research are very suggestive of mountaineering. Whymper made several efforts before he climbed the Matterhorn in the 1860's and even then it cost the life of four of his party. Now, however, any tourist can be hauled up for a small cost, and perhaps does not appreciate the difficulty of the original ascent. So in mathematics, it may be found hard to realise the great initial difficulty of making a little step which now seems so natural and obvious, and it may not be surprising if such a step has been found and lost again.

  Louis J. Mordell

  Party, Science, Appreciate

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• The most difficult part of dating is the initial invitation.

  Janell Carroll

  Dating, Difficult, Invitations

  Janell Carroll (2006). “Sexuality Now: Embracing Diversity”, p.296, Cengage Learning

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• To think that practice and realization are not one is a heretical view. In the Buddha Dharma, practice and realization are identical. Because one's present practice is practice in realization, one's initial negotiating of the Way in itself is the whole of original realization. Thus, even while directed to practice, one is told not to anticipate a realization apart from practice, because practice points directly to original realization.

  Masao Abe

  Thinking, Views, Practice

  Masao Abe, William R. LaFleur (1989). “Zen and Western Thought”, p.57, University of Hawaii Press

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• ...the initial position is decisive Zugzwang.

  Jon Speelman

  Chess, Position

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• It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Differences, Finals

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• Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named, for 'chaos' implies randomness. Chaos in the technical sense is not random at all. It is completely determined, but it depends hugely, in strangely hard-to-predict ways, on tiny differences in initial conditions.

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, Differences, Way

  Richard Dawkins (2017). “Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist”, p.87, Random House

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• My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Anger, Heart, Knowing

  "Sen. Blanche Lambert Lincoln's closed-door impeachment statement". www.cnn.com. February 12, 1999.

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• So one way to create an attractive risk/reward situation is to limit downside risk severely by investing in situations that have a large margin of safety. The upside, while still difficult to quantify, will usually take care of itself. In other words, look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you don’t lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Safety, Decision, Risk

  Joel Greenblatt (2010). “You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market P”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• As an individual becomes aware of subliminal phenomena, the shock may cause him some initial physical or emotional discomfort - possibly even concern over his sanity.

  Wilson Bryan Key

  Emotional, May, Causes

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• Every time we are obedient to the words of the prophets and apostles we reap great blessings. We receive more blessings than we can understand at the time, and we continue to receive blessings long after our initial decision to be obedient.

  Paul V. Johnson

  Blessing, Long, Decision

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• There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.

  Bertrand Meyer

  Two, Computer, Implementation

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• Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being.

  Simon Van Booy

  Past, Clumsiness, Enough

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.225, Oneworld Publications

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