Makers Quotes

• From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

  Tecumseh

  Tribes, Fortune, My Own

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• You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Choices

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Aug 03, 2011

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• Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It's a phenomenal lesson.

  Bob Proctor

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 27, 2017

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• I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Death, Witty

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 28 Nov. 1954

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• In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

  William S. Burroughs

  Writing, Psychics, Space

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.272, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair.

  James Patterson

  People, Misunderstood, Culture

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• We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Life, Music, Dream

  'Ode" l. 7 (1874)

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• Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Giving Up, Skulls, Mind

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.477, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Real, Thinking, Knowing

  Guardian interviews at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.

  Mike Leigh

  Integrity, Real, Principles

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• We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fate, Divinity, Blame

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.107, editionNEXT.com

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• If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Money, Business

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

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• All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Greek, Visionaries

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.58, University of Virginia Press

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• Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Cities, Sound, Chicago

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.236, Reprint Services Corporation

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• We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

  Karl Popper

  Fate, Prophet, Fate And Destiny

  The Open Society and its Enemies (1945) Introduction

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• Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

  William Ralph Inge

  Prayer, Mean, Opportunity

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• From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

  Donnie Yen

  Actors, Elements, Dynamics

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• At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.

  Charlize Theron

  Careers, Interesting, Different

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• They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.'

  Mira Nair

  Mean, Cutting, America

  "Becky Sharp is like me - a survivor" by Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2004.

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• I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

  Mira Nair

  Independent, Cutting, Firsts

  "'Becky Sharp is like me - a survivor'". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2004.

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• Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

  Algernon Sidney

  Hurt, Shoes, Made

  Algernon Sidney (1698). “Discourses Concerning Government, by Algernon Sidney ... Published from an Original Manuscript of the Author”, p.9

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• Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

  Iris Murdoch

  Women, Home, Two

  Iris Murdoch (1990). “The Message to the Planet”, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books

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• If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Parenting, Men

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Part I, (p. 4), 1949.

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• A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

  Robert Menzies

  Country, Successful, Men

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• I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Equality, Men, Choices

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