Opening Quotes

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  Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Workout, Thoughtful

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.421, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

  Carl Sandburg

  Doors, Closing Up, Poetry

  Atlantic Monthly Mar. 1923 "Poetry Considered"

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• Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Inspirational, Photography, Heart

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• Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Laughter, Patriotic

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  You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Birthday, Sports, Baseball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

  Barbara Bush

  Memorable, Generosity, Giving

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• One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Risk, Suffering, Doe

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• First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Taken, Oil, Firsts

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• When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience.

  Jay Roach

  Weekend, Thinking, Shooting

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

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• Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.

  Uri Geller

  Agency, Psychics, Mind

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

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• There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

  Warren E. Burger

  Prayer, Practice, Doubt

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• The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Opening Up, Collaboration, Possibility

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• There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Prayer, House, Problem

  "Vladimir Zhirinovsky on Religion in Russia". www.forerunner.com. May 1, 1996.

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• It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.

  Anthony Anderson

  Opening Up, Pages, Matter

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

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• My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Country, Japan, Years

  "Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature: Lagerkvist-Pontoppidan". Book by Thomson Gale, 2007.

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• With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Drama, Lasts, Century

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

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• Beyond drama and chaos, beyond anxiety and fear, lies a zone of endless peace and love. Let's all take a very deep breath, slow down for just a moment and remember this. That alone will open the door.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 02, 2012

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• Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Wind, Sky, One Day

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• I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Feet, Watches, Tonight

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What is important is the moment of opening a life and feeling it touch--with an electric hiss and cry--this speckled mineral sphere, our present world.

  Annie Dillard

  Feelings, Important, World

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.230, Canongate Books

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• Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Caring, Doors

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 13, 2015

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• Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

  Jean Ingelow

  Flower, Good Day, Light

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.264

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  Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

  Jim Carrey

  Life, Success, Fear

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• I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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