Opening Quotes - Page 21

• I had an eye-opening experience in Baghdad at the end of 2004 and I thought that the story of these guys who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world would be an interesting way to look at the war in a broader sense.

  Mark Boal

  Jobs, War, Eye

  "'Uber-Bingo,' other memorable Oscar quotes" by The Associated Press, www.today.com. March 8, 2010.

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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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• Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense that there is much more to life than we usually recognize; that we do not have to be confined by the limited views that our family, our society, or our own habitual thoughts impose on us; that life contains many dimensions, depths, textures, and meanings extending far beyond our familiar beliefs and concepts.

  John Welwood

  Views, Mind, Magic

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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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• Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!

  Jaime Hernandez

  Mean, Opening Up, Car

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• Sometimes, it`s easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It`s like there`s less risk, opening yourself up to someone who doesn`t know you.

  Linwood Barclay

  Risk, Sometimes, Stranger

  Linwood Barclay (2007). “No Time for Goodbye”, p.126, Bantam

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• I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I should have permitted myself to remain there. My honors are misunderstanding, persecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.

  Thomas Eakins

  School, Should Have, Honor

  Letter to Harrison Morris, April 23, 1894.

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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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• I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Rocks, Sticks, Want

  "The lie of the land" by Richard Mabey, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2007.

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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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• The preparation for active rook play entails what is called the opening of lines, which largely depends on pawn play, especially on the proper use of levers.

  Hans Kmoch

  Play, Preparation, Levers

  Hans Kmoch (2013). “Pawn Power in Chess”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• Time well employed is Satan's deadliest foe; it leaves no opening for the lurking fiend.

  Carlos Wilcox

  Satan, Wells, Foe

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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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• Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that humans always remain part of nature, acting solely according to the same rules. She demonstrates the political consequences of adopting this perspective through a provocative intervention in contemporary feminist theory, while along the way opening promising avenues for future work in a variety of other fields, such as animal studies and ecology. This is a challenging and important book.

  Michael Hardt

  Book, Reading, Animal

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• 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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• 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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• Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union.

  Laozi

  Light, Doors, Dust

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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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• I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound. I'm not bleeding on the canvas. I, like most people, have suffered traumatic events. The character of a person's life is determined by the way they deal with those events. I am a creative person and I deal with it creatively.

  Eric Fischl

  Character, Thinking, Opening Up

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• Prayer is not an act of worship merely, the bending of the knee on set occasions, and offering petitions in need. It is an attitude of soul, opening the life on the Godward side, and keeping free communication with the world of spirit.

  Hugh Black

  Prayer, Attitude, Communication

  Hugh Black (1999). “The Art of Being a Good Friend: How to Bring Out the Best in Your Friends and in Yourself”, p.142, Sophia Institute Press

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