Pieces Quotes - Page 29

• Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

  Theodor Reik

  Love, Change, Dream

  Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.190, Transaction Publishers

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece I'm lookin' for my missin' piece Hi-dee-ho, here I go, Lookin' for my missin' piece

  Shel Silverstein

  Missing Piece

  7 Copy quote

• Alex took a piece of my heart with him when he left.

  Simone Elkeles

  Heart, Alex, Left

  4 Copy quote

• I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mind, Three, Furniture

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.23, Courier Corporation

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves - there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? - are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help - can you face him honestly?).

  James Fenton

  Running, War, Fall

  17 Copy quote

• Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.

  Hervey Allen

  Memorial Day, Lying, Heart

  Hervey Allen (1968). “Toward the Flame: A War Diary”, [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.

  Henry Moore

  Sculpture, Shapes, Size

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.195, Univ of California Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you aren't used to seeing life except in fragments. Now it is beginning to piece itself together.

  Deepak Chopra

  Unusual Things, Luck, Together

  "When “Things” Go Bump in the Mind" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. JUly 3, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.

  William Shakespeare

  Party, House

  William Shakespeare, R.A. Foakes (1997). “King Lear: Third Series”, p.264, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rich people believe "You can have your cake and eat it too." Middle-class people believe "Cake is too rich, so I'll only have a little piece." Poor people don't believe they deserve cake, so they order a doughnut, focus on the hole, and wonder why they have "nothing."

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Trust, Believe

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Feb 19, 2013

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.

  Stephen Covey

  Two, Roots, Quality

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

  44 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible, and which are not.

  Carl Sagan

  Smart, Knowledge, Responsibility

  12 Copy quote

• 'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'

  George Herbert

  Science, Devil, Way

  4 Copy quote

• Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total conduct of men rather than in their statements that truth or falsehood lives, more in what a man does, in his real reaction to other men and to things, in his will to do them justice, to live at one with them. Here lies the inner connection between truth and justice. In the realm of behavior and action, the problem recurs as to the difference between piece and part.

  Max Wertheimer

  Life, Attitude, Real

  13 Copy quote

• The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the whole cannot be deduced from the characteristics of the separate pieces, but conversely; what happens to a part of the whole is, in clearcut cases, determined by the laws of the inner structure of its whole.

  Max Wertheimer

  Science, Law, Gestalt

  "Productive thinking". Book by Max Wertheimer, p. 84, 1959.

  44 Copy quote

  Show source

• "Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether it itself be a subsidiary whole or an "element"-is a very real process usually involving alterations in that "part". Modifications of a part frequently involve changes elsewhere in the whole itself. Nor is the nature of these alterations arbitrary, for they too are determined by whole-conditions.

  Max Wertheimer

  Change, Nature, Real

  14 Copy quote

• Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

  G. H. Hardy

  Love, Sacrifice, Math

  G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.94, Cambridge University Press

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas - which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Crazy, Ideas, Religion

  Richard P. Feynman (2010). “"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.338, W. W. Norton & Company

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but is irresistable when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Giving Up, Fear, War

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.11, Hayes Barton Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a piece of harmless fun.

  Richard Dawkins

  Fun, Believe, Mean

  8 Copy quote

• An intelligent man, a man who has a little meditative consciousness, can make his life a beautiful piece of art, can make it so full of love and full of music and full of poetry and full of dance that there are no limitations for it. Life is not hard. It is man's stupidity that makes it hard.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Art, Creativity

  9 Copy quote

• When you lose someone, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time.

  Simon Birch

  Goodbye, Missing Someone, Loses

  8 Copy quote

• And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.

  Gerald Scarfe

  Goodbye, Children, Wall

  8 Copy quote

• Oh, you're one of the sodomites. You should only get AIDS and die, you pig. How's that? Why don't you see if you can sue me, you pig. You got nothing better than to put me down, you piece of garbage. You have got nothing to do today, You have got nothing to do today, go eat a sausage and choke on it.

  Michael Savage

  Pigs, Sausage, Today

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2009.

  67 Copy quote

  Show source

• Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in order that it may reflect the image pure and undistorted.

  Justus von Liebig

  Science, Glasses, Mirrors

  15 Copy quote