Makers Quotes - Page 14

• All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Hard Work, Writing, Waiting

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.200, Grove Press

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• The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.

  Sheila Walsh

  Father, Promise, Keepers

  Sheila Walsh (2011). “The Shelter of God's Promises”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The first track is the end of a string.  At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint about itself every so many feet, telling you more about itself until you can almost see it, even before you come to it.  The mystery reveals itself slowly, track by track, giving its genealogy early to coax you in.  Further on, it will tell you the intimate details of its life and work, until you know the maker of the track like a lifelong friend.

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Moving, Feet, Track

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• One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe noticed for the first time that they were farsighted, and needed spectacles to read books (which they hadn’t really noticed before books became part of everyday life); which THEN created a market for lens makers, which then created pools of expertise in crafting lenses, which then led people to tinker with those lenses and invent the telescope and microscope, which then revolutionized science in countless ways.

  Steven Johnson

  Book, Love Is, Europe

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• True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.

  Lewis Hyde

  Government, Citizens, Consumers

  Lewis Hyde (2010). “Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership”, p.27, Macmillan

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• Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

  E. V. Lucas

  Wise, Book, Venture

  1932 Reading,Writing and Remembering, ch.1.

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• My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

  Nick Park

  Father, Photographer, Incurable Disease

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• There's a radical - and wonderful - new idea here... that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people's ideas, analyzers of evidence, and makers of their own personal marks on the world. Its an idea with revolutionary implications. If we take it seriously.

  Deborah Meier

  Children, Ideas, People

  Deborah Meier (2002). “The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem”, p.4, Beacon Press

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• Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth; the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. . . . Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Lying, Order

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 4, l. [108]

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• In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)- that is in the choices that shape these actions. Because the dispositions formed by previous choices can be modified in turn by present behaviour, this identity as choice-maker is fluid, its experience alterable. While it is affected by the past, it can also break free of the past.

  Joanna Macy

  Karma, Buddhist, Past

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• Christianity is a love relationship between a child of God and his Maker through the Son Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit.

  Adrian Rogers

  Jesus, Children, Son

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• The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords.

  Andrew Bacevich

  War, Mad, Victory

  Andrew J. Bacevich (2010). “Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War”, p.10, Metropolitan Books

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• Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse.

  William Raspberry

  Life, Moving, Loss

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• If you are worshipping false gods-such as football, baseball, gold, tennis, or money or technology or automobiles or houses or gold or silver-and you can tell what a man worships by what he does on Sunday-repent and start worshipping the true and living God, the maker of heaven and earth and all things that in them are.

  Hartman Rector, Jr.

  Life, Baseball, Football

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• If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Soul, Body

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.10514, Aeterna Press

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• He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides

  Judy Grahn

  Mother, Husband, Princess

  Judy Grahn (1982). “The queen of wands: poetry”

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• I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business in the green meadows, admit the animal world to a share in the faculty of reason. It is the cabinet makers who construct a universe of automatons.

  Richard Jefferies

  Business, Lying, Equality

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• I said last week that the number on Jean's back does not matter. He stays effective as a runner, decision-maker and leader.

  Allister Coetzee

  Numbers, Decision, Leader

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• Here's what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny looking, and he made it all anyway. He didn't let the aardvark convince him he had no business designing creatures. He didn't make a puffer fish and get discouraged, no, the maker made things - and still does.

  Julia Cameron

  Wise, Design, Tree

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• I tell you this: You are your own rule-maker. You set the guidelines. And you decide how well you have done; how well you are doing. For you are the one who has decided Who and What You Really Are-and Who You Want to Be. And you are the only one who can assess how well you're doing.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Law

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.40, Penguin

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• We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation

  Nick Vujicic

  Leadership, Strong, Government

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• Simpler companies are user centered. They adapt to the needs of day-to-day decision makers.

  Bill Jensen

  Simplicity, Decision, Needs

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• Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.

  Nick Denton

  Want, Kind, Superiors

  "Nick Denton’s ‘State of Gawker 2012’ Memo: ‘Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.’" by Foster Kamer, observer.com. January 05, 2012.

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• Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.

  Matthew Collings

  Art, Colour

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• Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring

  Seymour Papert

  School, Kids, Games

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