Opening Quotes - Page 14

• The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.

  Vincent Canby

  Shopping, Cheerful, Taste

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• Even in the running away from hurting, there is hurting. In opening unprotected to the experience that is enslaving you with its torment, there is the willingness to be free.” Are you willing? Or do you just want towait until the world  finally gets it and does it your way?

  Gangaji

  Running, Hurt, Doe

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• I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.

  Jon Hamm

  Summer, Dad, Winter

  "Jon Hamm Is a Capital-M Man" by Alex Postman, www.elle.com. August 21, 2009.

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• ...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Kindness, Heart

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• But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.

  Khushwant Singh

  Simple, People, Sound

  Khushwant Singh (1990). “Delhi”, p.129, Penguin Books India

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• The function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried technological possibility for producing a new commodity or producing an old one in a new way, by opening up a new source of supply of materials or a new outlet for products, by reorganizing an industry and so on.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Opening Up, Entrepreneur, Reform

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.132, Routledge

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• From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts

  Hideki Tojo

  War, Fighting, Power

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• Because there is liberating power in each and every truth, the one who walks in the truth in all his ways will be set free. A lie, no matter how "little," gives the powers of darkness an opening for attack, but the truth chases them far away.

  Johan Oscar Smith

  Life Changing, Lying, Giving

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• Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs and borders, opening the way for an era of globalization.

  Lech Walesa

  Division, Pay, Able

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• When you ask the Universe to bless you in your effort to align yourself with your soul, you open a passageway between yourself and your guides and Teachers. That is what a blessing is: the opening of a passageway between you and nonphysical guidance.

  Gary Zukav

  Teacher, Blessing, Effort

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Aug 05, 2012

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• I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling.

  Dorothy Allison

  Meaningful, Pain, Opening Up

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• At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you.

  Sun Tzu

  Running, Art Of War, Giving

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental unobtrusive and to musicians I think it emphasized the expression of the face and pose of the figure.

  Thomas Eakins

  Thinking, Expression, Musician

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• At the opening of our exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York we featured a wall of 10,000 bananas. Green bananas created a pattern against a background of yellow bananas spelling out the sentiment: Self-confidence produces fine results. After a number of days the green bananas turned yellow too and the type disappeared. When the yellow background bananas turned brown, the type (and the self-confidence) appeared again, only to go away when all bananas turned brown.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  New York, Wall, Self Confidence

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• Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?

  William Targ

  Book, Excitement, Compare

  William Targ (1975). “Indecent pleasures: the life and colorful times of William Targ”

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• After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad
  middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are
  in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived

  Edmar Mednis

  Games, Chess Game, Moments

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• Sharing a bit of yourself, opening a window into your own world, is a good place to begin.

  Jeff Greenwald

  World, Window, Good Place

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• When a seed sprouts, it's a violent process. The skin breaks and splits in two. Something dies and something is born. Anytime you paint a strong or violent image, you may be expressing that part of yourself that's opening in order to let the new emerge.

  Michele Cassou

  Strong, Order, Two

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• Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.

  Thomas Ehrlich

  Book, Reading, Doors

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• You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and mind.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Heart, Flames, Bridges

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche (2012). “Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation”, p.237, Random House

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• Grace is more than God opening the door to salvation; it’s God bringing people in.

  Colin S. Smith

  Doors, People, Grace

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• The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure

  Michael Stean

  Games, Chess Game, Chess Pieces

  Michael Stean (2013). “Simple Chess: New Algebraic Edition”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Substance, Penetrate

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• Seal the openings, shut the doors, and until your last day you will not be exhausted. Widen the openings, interfere, and until your last day you will not be safe.

  Laozi

  Doors, Taoism, Safe

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• The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit. But because you don't have many other openings, the heat coming out of this opening is sometimes very strong, active and even violent.

  Yang Lan

  Strong, Motivation, Inspiration

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