Reaching Quotes - Page 36

• There are so many people afraid of a task. They get so overwhelmed by the obstacles in front of them that they shy away from reaching beyond a position of safety.

  Edwin Moses

  People, Safety, Tasks

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• When I started reaching teenage years, I listened to everything that was on the radio like everyone else did, which was Chuck Berry, Beach Boys and then of course The Beatles, Stones. And of course in the 60's, I was completely blown away like everyone else by Hendrix, Cream, Deep Purple, Jeff Beck and all of that... so those were my influences.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Beach, Teenage, Boys

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• The thing I always say is that I wasn't going out reaching for roles, I wasn't fighting for roles - people came to me. They always came to me.

  Angela Lansbury

  Fighting, People, Roles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.

  Adrian Tomine

  Ambition, Wanted, Audience

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• Success is not in reaching the destination, but in making the journey.

  Bruce Lee

  Journey, Destination

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• As the proportion of people reaching higher states of consciousness increases, this inertia will decrease, and at the same time a supportive momentum in the new direction will start building up.

  Peter Russell

  Building Up, People, Supportive

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• We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

  Willie Aames

  Kids, Technology, Video

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• Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.

  Eric Alterman

  Technique, Use, Morality

  "Dick Cheney's Shadow Government" by Eric Alterman, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 14, 2009.

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• They love 3-D. It's fun to watch a movie in 3-D with your children, or with a group of children, because, from time to time, you see little hands reaching up to grab things that they think are right there. It's remarkable and it does, obviously, add another dimension, literally, to the movie.

  Steve Carell

  Fun, Children, Kids

  "Steve Carell Interview DESPICABLE ME". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.

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• This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!

  Mariah Carey

  Dream, Determination, Giving Up

  Mariah Carey's remarks at Madison Square Garden, 1995.

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• I think my soul is intact, but my methods of reaching people are completely different.

  Michael Franti

  Thinking, People, Soul

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• Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Lying, Goal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1979). “Collected Works”

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• So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.

  Jerry Garcia

  Numbers, Want, Problem

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• Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens in terms of fame and fortune, dedication to writing is a marching-step forward from where you were before, when you didn’t care about reaching out to the world, when you weren’t hoping to contribute, when you were just standing there doing some job into which you had fallen.

  Anne Lamott

  Jobs, Writing, Dedication

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• She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the moonlit sky, conveyed to her excited fancy. As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.

  Kate Chopin

  Sky, Space, Water

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.71

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• What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?

  David F. Wells

  Reach Out, Ifs

  David F. Wells (2008). “The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World”, p.55, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals ill-temper. On reaching the middle years a man perceives that he is no longer able to do certain things, that what looks he may have had are deserting him, that he has a ponderous great belly, and that however much he may yet burn he is no longer attractive to women; and he rebels. Fortitude, resignation and philosophy are of more value than any pills, red, white or blue.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Philosophy, Men, Blue

  Patrick O'Brian (2011). “The Truelove (Vol. Book 15) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age wanted heroes. It got us instead: carefully constructed, but immobile. Subtle but, unfit to take up the burden of the times. It happens. A whole generation of washouts. History says stand up, and we totter and collapse, weeping, moved, but not sufficient.

  Tony Kushner

  Hero, Voice, People

  Tony Kushner (1994). “A Bright Room Called Day”, p.67, Theatre Communications Group

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• It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender

  Leonard Cohen

  Hands, Sky, Surrender

  Song: The Stranger Song, 1967

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• The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss between a bride and groom. It was a kiss between a man and his wife, and when it was over, the king closed his eyes and rested his forehead in the hollow of the queen's shoulder, like a man seeking respite, like a man reaching home at the end of the day.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Queens, Home

  "The King of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2006.

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• Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some feeling that there is something larger - and there really has to be, because plainly you aren't sufficient to the situation.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Giving, Feelings, Situation

  Diana Gabaldon (2009). “An Echo in the Bone: A Novel”, p.35, Delacorte Press

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• You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?

  Rumi

  Ocean, Blood, Joy

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• I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course, with no makeup and from the awful ordeal, but smiling and radiant, with my hair down to my waist, and reaching out for my first little squirmy child and saying its name, whatever it was.

  Sylvia Plath

  Children, Makeup, Hair

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.36, Hamilton Books

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• To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Garden

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• My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

  Libba Bray

  Epidemics, Misery, Proportion

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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