Receiver Quotes - Page 7

• the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.

  Laura Huxley

  Yardsticks, Giver

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• Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Giver, Intellect

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.229, Penguin

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• Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.

  Brian J. White

  Football, People, Training

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• I don't have any TVs with their over-the-air receivers connected in my house. But when I'm in a hotel room or other places that have a TV, then I turn it on and flip the channels just like everybody else. I'm not immune to the lures of television. I just try to stay away from it because I like to read.

  Bill Gates

  Air, House, Trying

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• A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the truest gratitude. Perhaps it is only essential to friendship that some vital trust should have been reposed by the one in the other. I feel addressed and probed even to the remotest parts of my being when one nobly shows, even in trivial things, an implicit faith in me.... A threat or a curse may be forgotten, but this mild trust translates me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Trust, Gratitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.49, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.

  Denise Levertov

  Attitude, Moving, Poetry

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• In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line. In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! I hope I'll be safe at home!

  George Carlin

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• But even in a telephone booth
  evil can seep out of the receiver
  and we must cover it with a mattress,
  and then tear it from its roots
  and bury it,
  bury it.

  Anne Sexton

  Roots, Evil, Tears

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• I was making sure everyone knew Crabtree was a mediocre receiver. And when you try the best corner in the game with a mediocre receiver, that's what happens. I appreciate that he knows that now.

  Richard Sherman

  Games, Nfl, Appreciate

  "Richard Sherman rips 49ers' Michael Crabtree" by Eric Branch, www.sfgate.com. January 19, 2014.

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• Tight end is one of the hardest positions to play in football. It's right up there with quarterback and cornerback. You have to have the skills of a wide receiver and the strength of an offensive lineman, and it's not easy to balance those two.

  Tony Gonzalez

  Football, Play, Skills

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• The productive sender is the outer world, the external reality including our own body. The receiver is our deep self, the conscious ego, which then transforms the outer stimuli into a psychological experience.

  Albert Hofmann

  Reality, Self, Ego

  Interview with Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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