Layers Quotes

• It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Giving, Interesting, Challenges

  "11 Epic Ways Love, Bravery & Audacity Transform Your Life" by Maimah Karmo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2017.

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• Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

  Edward Abbey

  Funny, Political, Scum

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• We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Heart

  "Journal of Phenomenological Psychology", (Vol. 15), 1984.

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• Layer by layer art strips life bare.

  Robert Musil

  Art

  Robert Musil (2012). “Posthumous Papers of a Living Author”, p.44, Archipelago

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• For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

  Steven Erikson

  Years, Stories, Stones

  Steven Erikson (2011). “The Crippled God: The Malazan Book of the Fallen 10”, p.225, Random House

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• Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.

  Ricky Williams

  Moving, Yoga, Healing

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• Everyone has different layers to who they are.

  Carmen Electra

  Different

  "I used to sneak into my parents' bedroom and look through Playboy". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2007.

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• People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.

  Veronica Roth

  Believe, Heart, People

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• Live in the layers,
  not on the litter.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Next Chapter

  Stanley Kunitz, “The Layers”

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• Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Leadership, Teacher, Teaching

  "The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur".

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• It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

  Patty Duke

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Grieving

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• It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Fun, Unique, Thinking

  "11 Epic Ways Love, Bravery & Audacity Transform Your Life" by Maimah Karmo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2017.

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• I think I have a lot of crazy layers.

  Blythe Danner

  Crazy, Thinking

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• A grownup is a child with layers on.

  Woody Harrelson

  Children, Growing Up, Grownups

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• Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, Men, Color

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.48, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

  Billy Corgan

  Guitar, Kind, Radiohead

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• Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Art, Design

  "Steve Jobs Through The Years" by Mike Isaac, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Orchestra, Clarity, Separation

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• You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.

  Roger Daltrey

  Play, Guitar, Bricks

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• I can see why you like it here," he said,making a sweeping gesture that encompassed Kyle's collection of movie posters and science fiction books. "There's a thin layer of nerd all over everything." said Jace. "Thanks. I appreciate that." Simon gave Jace a hard look.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Appreciate, Nerd

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• Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

  John Burroughs

  Keys, Two, Voice

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• Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

  Paul Harvey

  Rain, Men, Garden

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• Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation

  Steve Jobs

  Men, Design, Soul

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Political, Democracy, Aristocracy

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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