Makers Quotes - Page 19

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  We need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and wretched we are of ourselves, nor should we know our Maker's marvellous love so fully.

  Julian of Norwich

  Fall, Needs, Weak

  Julian Of Norwich (1998). “Revelations of Divine Love”, p.201, Penguin UK

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• To become a leader, then, you must become
  yourself, become the maker of your own life

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Leader

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.214, John Wiley & Sons

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• Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.

  Philip Guston

  Thinking, Mind, Vision

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.281, Univ of California Press

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• Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living. The way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Wine, Use

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.10, Bottom of the Hill

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• A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet lives without God in the world, is certainly the most despicable and the most miserable animal under the sun.

  Matthew Henry

  Atheist, Animal, Men

  Matthew Henry, J.B Williams (1828). “Exposition of the Old and New Testament”, p.145

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• Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.

  John Burroughs

  Atheist, Men, World

  John Burroughs (1904). “The Writings of John Burroughs. [”

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• When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'

  Elie Wiesel

  Death, Yoga, Heaven

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• See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth with heaven above rejoices.

  Charles Kingsley

  Easter, Sleep, Winter

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Andromeda and Other Poems: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.229, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Teacher, Hands, Atheism

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2901, e-artnow

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• If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality makers who've cast Barack Obama as the savior of the world. To alter our course from tyranny to liberty, to defeat the corrupt elite, we must get past the puppets and confront the real power structure of the planet.

  Alex Jones

  Change, Leadership, Real

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• Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Decision

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Successful Selling”, p.38, Jaico Publishing House

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• The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.

  Roland Barthes

  Hero, Vision, Principal

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• My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

  Abigail Adams

  Son, Action, Remember

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1848). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams”, p.95

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• She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said "There are too many gadgets and no place to sit down!" So I bought her an electric chair.

  Red Skelton

  Funny, Humor, Bread

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• It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Hurt, Phoenix

  "A hunger for books" by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2007.

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• Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through the power of thought. Through the power of conceptuality the world is established

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Inspiration, House

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• Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

  Plato

  Plato, Physicians, Body

  Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.22

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• Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Change, Wise, Fashion

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?

  Richard Fleischer

  Sex, Desire, Crime

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• The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer.

  Pat Buchanan

  Real, Shopping, Scary

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• The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Self, Ends

  "Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, Volume 2".

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• Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mean, Angel, Night

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1867). “The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition”, p.348

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• Artists are the seeds, brave enough to live and flower before humanity. Our soil is contemplation, our water, its understanding. Whether my petals be beautiful to another, to I and The Maker, they are Unique and yet, only equally as beautiful as any other. Some call that being a Dreamer. I call it, being Belov'ed.

  Rasun

  Beautiful, Flower, Artist

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• Consciousness is the greatest movie-maker in the whole world.

  Mooji

  Greatest Movie, World, Consciousness

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• We are the makers of our own lives. There is no such thing as fate. Our lives are the result of our previous actions, our karma, and it naturally flows that, having been ourselves the makers of our karma, we must also be able to unmake it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Fate, Able

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