Pieces Quotes - Page 18

• Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'.

  Edward de Bono

  Change, Thinking, Perception

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• Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

  Sigmund Freud

  Truth, Honesty, Jigsaw Puzzles

  SIGMUND FREUD (1939). “MOSES AND MONOTHEISM”

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• Those of you who come in with me now will receive a big piece of the pie. Those of you who delay, and commit yourselves later, will receive a smaller piece of pie. Those of you who don't come in at all will receive - Good Government!

  Huey Long

  Government, Pie, Political

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• I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark.

  Andrea Gibson

  Home, Writing, Heart

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• All ye that pass by!
  While we least think it he prepares his Mate.
  Mate, and the King's pawn played, it never ceases,
  Though all the earth is dust of taken pieces.

  John Masefield

  Life, Kings, Taken

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• There will be an enduring role for the 'soft' side of planning. The piece that deals with meaning, identity and ideas. This is the slightly intangible piece that creative agencies hold at their heart.

  John Woodward

  Business, Heart, Agency

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• History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Writing, History, Paper

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• O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart
  Piece of the puzzle, you're my missing part
  Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?

  Zooey Deschanel

  Life, Heart, Old Habits

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• I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Music, Writing, Men

  "Working with Vaughan Williams: the correspondence of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Roy Douglas".

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• I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

  Thelonious Monk

  Music, Jazz, Formulas

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• We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.

  Ricardo Flores Magon

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Order

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• You are my glue. Without you, I'd be nothing but broken pieces.

  Miley Cyrus

  Romantic, Broken, Romance

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• While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at different angles to use later.

  Fred Perry

  Beautiful, Athlete, Drawing

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• In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse of the play, its driving force, and is basic to all plot structures...In any true piece of art...the beginning and the end are, or should be, polar in principle. All the main qualities of the first section should transform themselves into their opposites in the last section.

  Michael Chekhov

  Art, Opposites, Play

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• But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays
  Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days;
  Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays,
  And one by one back in the Closet lays.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Moving, Night

  Omar Khayyam, Saʻdī (1900). “Persian Literature: Comprising the Sháh Námeh, the Rubáiyát, the Divan and the Gulistan”

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• Somebody finally has to get out an ad, often after hours. Somebody has to stare at a blank piece of paper. Probably nothing was ever more bleak. This is probably the very height of lonesomeness. He is one person and he is alone

  Fairfax M. Cone

  Business, After Hours, Paper

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• ...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Names, Brain, Cowardice

  Desiderius Erasmus (2016). “In Praise of Folly”, p.54, Desiderius Erasmus

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• The depravity which sin has produced in human nature extends to the whole of it. There is no part of man's nature which is unaffected by it. Man's nature is all of a piece, and what affects it at all affects it altogether

  James Denney

  Men, Human Nature, Sin

  James Denney (1895). “Studies in Theology: Lectures Delivered in Chicago Theological Seminary”

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• Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality .. which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Acceptance, Reality, Needs

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• Lao Tzu says: "Accept yourself. Non-acceptance is the root of all the trouble." None of us accept ourselves. The more a person doesn't accept himself, the greater a mahatma he looks to others to be. We are our greatest enemy. If we had our way, we would cut ourselves to pieces in order to remove what was unacceptable.

  Rajneesh

  Cutting, Acceptance, Order

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• I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be and to some degree, the woman I'm still a little piece of.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Fashion, Design, Degrees

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• The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to be overcome, the panic fear, 'Is that possible, then?' So it came about that gradually a piece was written, firmly and consciously, that wasn't in a definite key any more.

  Anton Webern

  Struggle, Keys, Overcoming

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• When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, Risk, May

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• Citizenship to me is more than a piece of paper. Citizenship is also about character. I am an American. We're just waiting for our country to recognize it.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Country, Character, Waiting

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• In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people: harnessing the power of the Sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, Taken, Moving

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