Seizing Quotes - Page 2

• Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success

  Austin Phelps

  Inspirational, Persistence, Opportunity

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• It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin - every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands.

  Charlton Heston

  Hands, Monsters, Camels

  "Have Gun, Will Travel" By Margot Hornblower, www.cnn.com. July 6, 1998.

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• The inflection point at which we have arrived is one in which we are increasingly seizing the keys to all creation, as astonding as that might seem.

  Joel Garreau

  Keys, Might, Evolution

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.11, Broadway Books

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• Broad access to opportunity is the key to a truly equitable America. No matter who you are or where you grew up, Black Faces in White Places provides a blueprint to seizing opportunities at hand - and expanding opportunity for your entire community.

  Angela Glover Blackwell

  Opportunity, Keys, Hands

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• Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Ideas, Invention, Capacity

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2007). “Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus [1818 Text]: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.342, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Being an entrepreneur isn’t just a job title, and it isn’t just about starting a company. It’s a state of mind. It’s about seeing connections others can’t, seizing opportunities others won’t, and forging new directions that others haven’t.

  Tory Burch

  Motivational, Jobs, Opportunity

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• A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning. Through a series of intuitions, surmises, fancies, they stumble upon the right explanation, and have a knack of seizing it when it once comes within reach.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Murder Mysteries, Intuition, Littles

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• Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.

  Julian Assange

  Art, Powerful, Reality

  Julian Assange (2011). “Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography”, p.120, Canongate Books

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• Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Opponents, Dear

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.32, SJ Creations Tokyo

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  I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

  Howard Schultz

  Success, Leadership, Believe

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Life, Opportunity, Persistent

  Joseph Wood Krutch, Paul Landacre (2005). “The Great Chain of Life”, p.2, University of Iowa Press

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• A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.

  John Grogan

  Loyalty, Dog, Heart

  John Grogan (2010). “Bad Dogs Have More Fun: Selected Writings on Family, Animals, and Life from the Philadelphia Inquirer”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

  T. S. Eliot

  Writing, Poetry, Feelings

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Men, Two

  Aldous Huxley (1947). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• I'm sorry I never really believed," I said. "Not the way Jack did." "It doesn't make any difference," my mother replied. Her eyes focused on the beanstalk for a moment, then returned to mine. "You believe now. Be safe and smart up there, my Gen. Be yourself." Before I could answer, my mother turned away and walked quickly toward the house. I turned to face the beanstalk. There is no going back now, I thought. For better or worse, there was only going forward. There was only going up. Seizing the trunk of the beanstalk with both hands, I pushed off from the World Below and began to climb.

  Cameron Dokey

  Mother, Being Yourself, Sorry

  Cameron Dokey (2010). “The World Above”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• When I first arrived in London, I so quickly tired of being surrounded by so many people that it was only with great difficulty that I refrained from seizing the next unfortunate who crossed my path and committing violent acts upon their person.

  Cassandra Clare

  Tired, Violent Acts, People

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.573, Simon and Schuster

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• For most women, being seen, having others pay attention to you, is imagined and experienced as more desirable and more powerful than commanding an army or seizing control of the means of production and reproduction.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Powerful, Mean, Army

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• Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other...

  Donna J. Haraway

  Fall, Writing, Men

  "A Cyborg Manifesto". Essay by Donna J. Haraway, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1984.

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• Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Fear, People, Worry

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• Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, “Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me!” “How wonderful! Gnome saliva is enormously beneficial!” said Mr. Lovegood, seizing Luna’s outstretched finger and examining the bleeding puncture marks. “Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today — perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish — do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies!” Ron, passing them in the opposite direction, let out a loud snort.

  J. K. Rowling

  Daughter, Farewell, Opposites

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• Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our 'accepting' and 'willing' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Determination, Choices, Grace

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• Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.

  Robert Nozick

  Philosophy, Political, Liberty

  "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" by Robert Nozick, (p. 169), 1974.

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• The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she liver with, her only boy.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Change, Son, Grandmother

  Flannery O'Connor (1993). “"A Good Man is Hard to Find"”, p.31, Rutgers University Press

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• And now she has you seizing control of my army.” “Your army? I thought this was Gaunt’s.” “So did he.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Army

  Michael J. Sullivan (2009). “Nyphron Rising”, p.319, Ridan Publishing

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• Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the goods of others, whereas causes for taking life are rarer and more quickly destroyed.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Causes

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, ch. 17, 1513.

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