Margins Quotes

• Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Focus And Concentration, Victory

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• Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

  J. G. Ballard

  Reality, Sprung Up, Fiction

  "Fictions of Every Kind" (1971)

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• Your margin is my opportunity.

  Jeff Bezos

  Opportunity

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• I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

  John Sayles

  Mean, Independent, Once Upon A Time

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

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• I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.

  Pierre de Fermat

  Math, Enough, Proof

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• It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

  Lou Gerstner

  Loss, Technology, Computer

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• The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, Voting, Vote

  The New York Times, November 11, 1963.

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• For me, the eye and the word go together. Even when I was working in word documents, I was always obsessed with fonts, size, margins - the look of words on a page. The way something looks or sounds is also what it means.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Mean, Eye, Together

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels"". Interview with Jacob Wren, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.

  Sam Harris

  Strong, Atheist, People

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.225, W. W. Norton & Company

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• How capable are we of bringing about authentic change if we don't have voices from the margins?

  Richard Twiss

  Voice, Ifs, Capable

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• ...I believe that it is not enough, as I said, to tinker at the margins of U.S. immigration law... the United States must institute comprehensive reforms that conform to the realities of the era in which we live.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Reality, Law

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• All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moving, Forever, Experience

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• Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace. If, however, they are left on society's margins, all of us will be impoverished. Let us ensure that all young people have every opportunity to participate fully in the lives of their societies.

  Kofi Annan

  Opportunity, Keys, People

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• I wish you hadn't been so over-courteous about putting the inscription on a card instead of on the flyleaf. It's the bookseller coming out in you all, you were afraid you'd decrease its value. You would have increased it for the present owner. (And possibly for the future owner. I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.)

  Helene Hanff

  Reading, Long, Wish

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• Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Safety, Challenges

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• ...the vital point to remember is that the swine who just sent your pearl of a story back with nothing but a coffee-stain and a printed rejection slip can be wrong. You cannot take it for granted that he is wrong, but you have an all-important margin of hope that might be enough to keep you going.

  Brian Stableford

  Coffee, Writing, Rejection

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• This is where you and I are headed.... Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends and you might just find us celebrated

  Scott Lynch

  Book, Looks, Legends

  Scott Lynch (2007). “Red Seas Under Red Skies”, p.75, Del Rey

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• I remember coming on my first set and it being a playground of things I wanted to ask questions about: cameras and lenses and what the lenses do, what's the focus puller doing and how does that work? Why is there less margin for error when there's less light? I was always asking questions and watching directors closely.

  Paul Bettany

  Asking Questions, Light, Errors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I understand the arguments about how the billions of dollars spent to put men on the moon could have been used to fight poverty and hunger on Earth. But, look, I'm a scientist who sees inspiration as the ultimate tool for doing good. When you use money to fight poverty, it can be of great value, but too often, you're working at the margins. When you're putting people on the moon, you're inspiring all of us to achieve the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved. Give yourself permission to dream.

  Randy Pausch

  Dream, Inspiration, Fighting

  "The Last Lecture".

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• Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance. Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Men, Thinking, Korea

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I stand among you as one who offers a small message of hope. . . there are always people who dare to seek on the margin of society, who are not dependent on social acceptance, not dependent on social routine, and prefer a kind of free-floating existence under a state of risk.

  Thomas Merton

  Acceptance, People, Risk

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.6, Sounds True

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• Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company.

  Toni Morrison

  Women, Moving, Home

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• I work in the margins. The margins are where you'll find the nice people. You'll find real friends. You'll find honesty. You'll find integrity. You'll find relationships that will last you for a lifetime and will be there to support you in the bad times, which are the only relationships that matter anyway. Relationships that are all about power and money aren't worth having.

  David Knopfler

  Honesty, Integrity, Real

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• Bobby JonesConsidered objectively, it is quite obviously a very simple matter to propel a ball with a stick across some specially prepared ground and into a hole which is of sufficient size to accomodate it by a good margin. Simple that is, provided there is no limit upon the time or the number of strokes required.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Simple, Numbers

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• Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.

  Will Youmans

  Art, Creativity, Voice

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