Layers Quotes - Page 10

• If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Waiting, Noise, Ifs

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.133, Macmillan

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• Life isn't much more than a big dig through layers of doubt and fear into new levels of power and potential.

  Robin Sharma

  Doubt, Levels, Bigs

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jul 22, 2014

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• Though Jack Nubbins was extremely talented, Quenten Cassidy had viewed the Specter; when he reached down through the familiar layers of gloom and fatigue he generally found more there than a nameless and transient desire to acquire plastic trophies. He and Nubbins were not even in the same ball park.

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Running, Desire, Parks

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• It's not a question of arriving and putting in a whole new administration, but instead, arriving and "compacting" things as much as possible, reducing management layers. We want as few management layers as possible, so that executives are very close to the operations. We also don't believe in having big corporate infrastructures.

  Carlos Slim

  Believe, Arriving, Want

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• I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter, irritating juices would have stung their eyes, and they would have cried. Although I couldn't cry myself, much at the time. But no one would cut me open.

  Crescent Dragonwagon

  Eye, Cutting, Skins

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• Here's an example of how it wastes some time. To be judged on or to be talked about on appearance—say chest size—it makes me wear layers, it makes me have to waste time figuring out what am I going to wear so that nobody will look in an area that I don't need them to look at.

  Sarah Palin

  Example, Needs, Looks

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• Do you really want to know why I'm doing all this goodwill, and why I'm an ambassador for Habitat for Humanity and why I gave a million to [relief efforts for Hurricane] Katrina? It's because I feel guilty about the huge hole in the ozone layer my haircuts created. It's my responsibility to right the wrongs of the Eighties.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Responsibility, Ozone, Effort

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

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• Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and structure, materials and texture, lie the deepest and most compulsive layers of all.

  Charles Correa

  Lying, Texture, Architecture

  Charles Correa (2010). “A Place in the Shade: The New Landscape & Other Essays”, p.22, Penguin Books India

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• Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops.

  Frank Muir

  Food, Simple, Leaving

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• Most of the things that really matter require faith. How do I know that my wife loves me? How do I know that Mozarts Jupiter Symphony is sublime and beautiful? There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - How do I know that two plus two equals four? There are different layers, different types of knowing.

  N. T. Wright

  Beautiful, Two, Symphony

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• Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing.

  W. G. Sebald

  Past, Emotion, Determined

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• It’s a trifle. It’s got all of these layers. First there’s a layer of ladyfingers, then a layer of jam, then custard, which I made from scratch, then raspberries, more ladyfingers, then beef sauteed with peas and onions, then a little more custard, and then bananas, and then I just put some whipped cream on top!

  Rachel

  Scratches, Beef, Jam

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• Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate structure built on layer and layer of complex constituents, can we help but be reminded of the Land of Oz. Have we found the Emerald City? Is this what we were searching for? Is this the ultimate fabric of reality? Is this all there is?

  Walker Evans

  Science, Reality, Engineering

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• Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is a discrete region, rather than the discrete notion that it is a fuzzy region.

  Bill Mollison

  Fuzzy, Boundaries, Heard

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Sex, Culture, Division

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”

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• Voluptuous and enveloping like layers of precious fabrics

  Elie Saab

  Fabric, Voluptuous

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• Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not belong to him, something that merely chained and mastered him and from which he would free him and bring him back to his real self. Jesus was able to love men because he loved them right through the layer of mud.

  Helmut Thielicke

  Religious, Jesus, Real

  "Christ and the Meaning of Life".

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• Success would be
  a fairly boring and uninspiring dish if anybody could create it with
  a single ingredient, however difficult that ingredient was to find. No,
  success has several layers to its pallet. This is just the beginning

  Chris Murray

  Would Be, Ingredients, Boring

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• The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible and readable as an edge.

  Ellen Gallagher

  Cutting, Matter, Painting

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• It's easy to love the snow because at the end of every snowstorm it's as if the world has started over. There is no dirt, no footprints, just a layer of seamless, indiscriminate nature connecting everything to everything else. Isn't that the amazing thing about the natural world? You can tear it down, you can drill holes in it, you can ignore its power with all your might, but one morning you wake up and it has selflessly given despite all of our abuse. I think I'll make a snowman.

  Andrew McMahon

  Morning, Thinking, Snow

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• In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India.

  Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  Country, People, India

  "Sri Mulyani Indrawati: 'You must make growth inclusive - you have to protect the poor'". Interview With Heather Stewart, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2012.

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• People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.

  Pam Houston

  People, Trying, Hundred

  Pam Houston (1999). “Waltzing the Cat”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve away everything else.
  Our understanding of identity is often similar: Beneath the many layers of shoulds and shouldn’ts that cover us, there lies a constant, single, true self that is just waiting to be discovered.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Lying, Artist, Self

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• All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.

  Sarah Hall

  Children, Law, Innocent

  Sarah Hall (2009). “How to Paint a Dead Man”, p.53, Faber & Faber

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• Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.

  Jane Harman

  Successful, Men, Glasses

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