Invisible Quotes - Page 6

• I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.

  Taryn Simon

  Communication, Night, Space

  "Taryn Simon's Visual Babel". Interview with Lauren Cornell, www.newyorker.com. August 2, 2012.

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• What we must realize is that we cannot see everything. We do not know everything. More important, we must understand that it is impossible for us to control anything. The process of life is a spiritual one, governed by invisible, intangible spiritual laws and principles.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Spiritual, Law, Important

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days And 40 Nights Towards Spiritual Strength And Personal Growth”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• All of us sport an invisible sign around our necks -- “AS IS.” It means, take me as I am. I may not become what you want me to be. And I'm far, far from perfect. But I have some great qualities, too, as well as my share of faults. You will have to take me “AS IS” and I'll take you that way, too.

  Steve Goodier

  Sports, Mean, Perfect

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• Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible enemies.

  Edward Gibbon

  Wrath, Parent, Enemy

  Edward Gibbon, J. B. Bury (2012). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Edited in Seven Volumes with Introduction, Notes, Appendices, and Index”, p.298, Cambridge University Press

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• No totalitarian censor can approach the implacability of the censor who controls the line of communication between the outer world and our consciousness. Nothing is allowed to reach us which might weaken our confidence and lower our morale. To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth.

  Eric Hoffer

  Communication, World, Lines

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• I'm drawn to female characters, not all of them are strong characters. I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious a relationship to power in society, and so they suffer under social constraints or have to maneuver within them in ways men sometimes don't, or are unconscious about, or have certain liberties that are invisible to them.

  Todd Haynes

  Strong, Character, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Good acting should be invisible. You shouldn't be aware of the acting. It should feel real.

  Susanna White

  Real, Acting, Should

  Source: collider.com

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• A tipping point is invisible, as we just saw in Greece. In most situations, everything appears fine until it's not fine, until, for example, no one shows up at a Treasury auction.

  Seth Klarman

  Example, Auctions, Tipping

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• If the ruler wants to play the game by himself and follow secret policies, he must present a decoy to the masses. He cannot escape the mass; but he can draw between himself and that mass an invisible curtain, a screen, on which the mass will see projected the mirage of some politics, while the real politics are being made behind it.

  Jacques Ellul

  Real, Games, Play

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• He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Pushing, Graves, Dread

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• God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Evil, Doe, Belief

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• Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This is the way the game was played in our youth and in our fathers' youth, and even back then ... there must have been the same feeling that time could be stopped.

  Roger Angell

  Baseball, Father, Moving

  Roger Angell (1991). “Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader”, Ivan R Dee

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• The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the abundance from which the whole society benefits.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Competition

  Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great about Christianity”, Tyndale House Pub

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• To those of us who are not theologians, does it matter whether a thing is ordained or merely allowed? Are events that seem out of control caused by God? Or does He allow them to occur at the hands of human beings? You can spend a lot of time pondering that one and end up pretty much where you started. In either case, the purpose remains the same - our sanctification. God is in the business of making us walking, breathing examples of the invisible reality of the presence of Christ in us.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Reality, Hands, Breathing

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• The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market.

  Milton Friedman

  Hands, Opposites, Invisible Hand

  Milton Friedman (1972). “An economist's protest: columns in political economy”

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• The fantastic thing about the theatre is that it can make something be seen that's invisible, and that's where my interest in theatre is- that you can be watching this thing happening with actors and costumes and light and set and language, and even plot, and something emerges from beyond that, and that's the image part that I'm looking for, that sort of added dimension.

  Sam Shepard

  Light, Theatre, Plot

  Sam Shepard (1984). “Fool for Love and Other Plays”, Bantam Books

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• Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it ... the invisible king-the élan vital-the principle of evolution ... writing a book, starting a war, founding a school.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Kings, War, Book

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.291, e-artnow

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• Which is more improbable - that the trillions of solar systems in the known universe exploded from something smaller than a pinhead or that there is an invisible, omniscient moral intelligence present everywhere that has the highest tolerance for cruelty?

  David Hayden

  Tolerance, Moral, Cruelty

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• There are no invisible seams.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Song: I Just Want You

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• Procrastination is one of the most expensive invisible costs in business today.

  Rory Vaden

  Procrastination, Cost, Today

  Rory Vaden (2012). “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”, p.37, Penguin

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• I do so play an instrument! I play air! I play the air with my fingers, and I'm in touch with the deepest emotions within. It took me a while to learn that whatever I feel like doing is the right thing. If I want to play an invisible instrument, I will.

  Jill Scott

  Air, Play, Want

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• It's possible to love without sacrificing-but who would notice? For love is demonstrated only through sacrifice-without it, love is invisible.

  Andrew Williams

  Sacrifice, Love Is

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• We are all driven by an invisible whip. Some run, some have fun, some are hip, some tip, some dip, but we all must answer to the invisible whip.

  Rahsaan Roland Kirk

  Running, Fun, Answers

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• Research at the subatomic quantum level reveals an invisible connection between all particles and all members of a given species. This oneness is being demonstrated in remarkable scientific discoveries. The findings show that physical distance, what we think of as empty space, does not preclude a connection by invisible forces. Obviously there exist invisible connections between our thoughts and our actions. We do not deny this, even though the connection is impervious to our senses.

  Wayne Dyer

  Distance, Thinking, Discovery

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• To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

  James Hillman

  Eye, Angel, Certain

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