Reaching Quotes - Page 33

• Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday.

  Nora Ephron

  Jobs, Book, Writing

  "Nora Ephron Dies at 71; Writer and Filmmaker With a Genius for Humor" by Charles Mcgrath, www.nytimes.com. June 26, 2012.

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• I try not to think about the idea of reaching more and more people, because once you get in that mindset, I think you lose the point of why you're doing it in the first place. Still, the best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Thinking, Ideas

  "Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2007.

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• The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

  Theodore Parker

  Mean, Loss, Men

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.84

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• Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people.

  Maureen Dowd

  Mean, Technology, People

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• It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.

  Viola Spolin

  Losing Everything, Daily Activities, Goal

  Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.12, Northwestern University Press

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• The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his new-found freedom. He is like a long-distance runner who, on reaching the finishing line, is incapable even of raising his hands in a gesture of victory.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Distance, Men, Hands

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• When you've got a solid commitment and solid objectives, you've got a much better chance of reaching your goal.

  Zig Ziglar

  Commitment, Goal, Chance

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• You have to want weight-loss success so badly that no mountain, river, or ocean could keep you from reaching your goals. If you have that drive, passion, and commitment, there is no way you won’t get there.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Ocean, Commitment, Passion

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.104, Penguin

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• Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts.

  David Robinson

  Motivational, Dream, Stars

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• Global military spending levels constitute an unconscionable use of resources and remain at an all-time high, reaching a total of USD 1.75 trillion in 2012, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Military, Levels, Use

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• just sitting does not involve reaching some understanding. It is the subtle activity of allowing all things to be completely at rest just as they are, not poking one's head into the workings of the world.

  John Daido Loori

  Understanding, Doe, Sitting

  John Daido Loori (2010). “The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza (Large Print 16pt)”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We are born in innocence. ... Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies us. The first nuance of difference, the first need to feel better than the different one, more loved, stronger, richer, more blessed -- these are corruptions.

  Laura Z. Hobson

  Blessed, Feel Better, Differences

  Laura Z. Hobson (2011). “Gentleman's Agreement”, p.106, Open Road Media

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• We need many more intrepid women who set out to expand both their and our concepts of the world. We need them in writing just as we need them in politics. We need that sense of adventure, of reaching wider, delving deeper, pushing further afield, whether that field be geographical, intellectual, political, personal, or all of these and more. Enough with decorousness. Let us risk preconceptions and treasured philosophies, bodies and souls. Let us be big and bawdy and full of courage. Let's go.

  Lesley Hazleton

  Philosophy, Writing, Adventure

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• I already had the sense that I was someone who was more spiritual than specifically religious. ... I'm really interested in those things that are more far-reaching than culture, nationality, race, religion.

  Emma Watson

  Spiritual, Religious, Race

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Honestly, on so many levels, I feel like motherhood has prepared me even better for directing than film school because all it is is troubleshooting and dealing with different personalities and emotions and trying to make everybody happy and at the end of the day reaching your own personal goals and agendas.

  Christine Swanson

  School, Motherhood, Goal

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I believe in helping the planet survive, and that includes reaching out to help some of the disappearing creatures whose habitats we're destroying. It's up to us to somehow reverse that trend. I don't know how we'll achieve it, but we need to.

  Morgan Freeman

  Believe, Needs, Habitat

  "Morgan Freeman–born to be Morgan". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. April 11, 2011.

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• Compelling spectacles are not to reach a niche market, it could be for reaching a niche marketing but on a grand scale. This is for grand marketing.

  Robert Greene

  Marketing, Niche, Scales

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• Such a person needs meditation more than anyone else because they are headed for a crisis. If stress and anxiety are so great that you can't even imagine a calm clear mind, that indicates you are reaching your coping limits, and need to begin something like meditation just for the stress reduction benefits.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stress, Meditation, Anxiety

  "Questions About Meditation You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask, Explained By Deepak Chopra". Interview with Whitney Jefferson, www.buzzfeed.com. August 7, 2014.

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• Key to the societal significance of tomorrow's leaders is the way they embrace the totality of leadership, not just including 'my organization' but reaching beyond the walls as well.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Wall, Keys, Organization

  Frances Hesselbein (2002). “Hesselbein on Leadership”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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• Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

  Bodhidharma

  Suffering, Way, Existence

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.51, Macmillan

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• All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

  Smiley Blanton

  Destiny, Succeed, Doe

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• The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.

  David Edward Kirk

  Mean, Men, Division

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• While thinking when sober, our success at reaching our goals by using the First Baltic Front troops, the Memel operation, it can't be disregarded, that the troops not only honorably accomplished their powerful strategic operation, but also an infusion of victory for the Soviet armed forces and an entrance into the final stages of the war.

  Ivan Bagramyan

  Powerful, War, Thinking

  "A Photo Album About A Soviet Marshal". Book by Ivan Bagramyan, 1987.

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• Mastering an art is like reaching the top of the passion mountain.... at the top the passion dies out! So keep learning.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Art, Passion, Mountain

  "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

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• Reaching deep into the heart of the reader, Cindy Woodsmall pens a beautifully lyrical story in her debut novel When the Heart Cries.

  Tamera Alexander

  Heart, Stories, Cry

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