Kernel Quotes

• I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: 'What is my exciting thing for today?' Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow.

  Barbara Jordan

  Life, Motivational, Morning

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• True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.

  Rumi

  Spring, Flower, Giving

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• We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

  Linus Torvalds

  Doe, Linux, Infinite

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• Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1418, Barbour Publishing

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• The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.

  Linus Torvalds

  Ideas, One Thing, Productive

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• I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.

  Forest Whitaker

  Men, Play, Connections

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.

  Bahya ibn Paquda

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

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• You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

  Harry Dean Stanton

  Wisdom, Impact, Walking Away

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• Right now some people are just running around in circles and claiming that moving things to the kernel automatically makes it more stable. I'm telling you that the kernel is stable not because it's a kernel, but because I refuse to listen to arguments like this.

  Linus Torvalds

  Running, Moving, Circles

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• Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Money, Food, Medicine

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• though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Toil, Plot

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.26, Graphic Arts Books

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• It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it always begins with the writer. With the kernel of an idea, or a character, or an idea or a theme, or even an outcome. But for documentary photographers, photographs begin at that intersection of the real world and the imaginative inner world.

  Sam Abell

  Real, Writing, Character

  Source: dougplummer.blogs.com

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• Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.

  Wallace Thurman

  Color, Prejudice, Responsible

  Wallace Thurman (2012). “The Blacker the Berry”, p.92, Courier Corporation

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• All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Practice, Revelations

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Sep 26, 2015

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• The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.

  Kate Elliott

  Empowerment, Promise, World

  Kate Elliott (2013). “Cold Steel: Spiritwalker: Book Three”, p.432, Hachette UK

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• All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isnt whether our food has been modified, but how.

  Michael Specter

  Corn, Crops, Mankind

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• At the heart of anything good there should be a kernel of something undefinable, and if you can define it, or claim to be able to define it, then, in a sense, you’ve missed the point.

  John Peel

  Heart, Able, Claims

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• The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.

  Meister Eckhart

  Shells, Want, Break

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money.

  Arne Garborg

  Life, Fun, Sleep

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• If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.

  Meister Eckhart

  Reality, Essence, Shells

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• He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people.

  Anton Chekhov

  Running, Two, People

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2943, Delphi Classics

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• The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.

  Helen Keller

  World, Earth, Fields

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and then eaten with a fork. Ladies should be particularly careful how they manage so ticklish a dainty, lest the exhibition rub off a little desirable romance.

  Charlie Day

  Food, Knives, Romance

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• You know when you make popcorn there are always those fluffy white kernels that are fun and good to eat but there are also always those burnt, black kernels that don’t pop. You know why they don’t pop? Because they have integrity.

  Marc Maron

  Fun, Integrity, White

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• It's funny how you can't ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a few feet and see things in a new way before you realize nothing that is happening to you is normal. The trouble with you and me is we are used to what is happening to us. We grew into our lives like a kernel beneath the earth, never able to process the enigma of our composition...Nothing is normal. It is all rather odd, isn't it, our eyes in our heads, our hands with five fingers, the capacity to understand beauty, to feel love, to feel pain.

  Donald Miller

  Pain, Eye, Feet

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