Shapes Quotes - Page 39

• Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.

  George Washington

  Beast, American Indian, Prey

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• I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

  Mary Douglas

  Personality, Living Alone, Convinced

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• Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

  Pete Cashmore

  Inspirational, Business, People

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• We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Fate, Dignity

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.

  Virginia Woolf

  Determination, Book, Writing

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.37, HMH

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• Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around the camp-fire, fatigued with contending against the mammoth or wooly-rhinoceros, and only kept awake by suspense. What would happen next? The novelist droned on, and as soon as the audience guessed what happened next, they either fell asleep or killed him.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Editors, Skulls

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• It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation. But this does not mean that solitary, creative pursuits are themselves pathological.

  Anthony Storr

  Mean, People, Personality

  Anthony Storr (2005). “Solitude: A Return to the Self”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, pre-eminently, is the forming, fixing period, the spring season of disposition and habit; and it is during this season, more than any other, that the character assumes its permanent shape and color, and the young are wont to take their course for time and for eternity.

  Josiah Johnson Hawes

  Spring, Character, Color

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• One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

  Mike DeWine

  Journey, Years, Decision

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• The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's only stuff for sale.

  James Gunn

  Writing, Unique, Inheritance

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• Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.

  Jean Aitchison

  Writing, Use, Visible

  Jean Aitchison (1997). “The Language Web: The Power and Problem of Words - The 1996 BBC Reith Lectures”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

  Hortense Calisher

  Writing, Mind, Size

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “Extreme Magic: Eight Stories and a Novella”, p.81, Open Road Media

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• There's no magic bullet; there's no pill that you take that makes everything great and makes you happy all the time. I'm letting go of those expectations, and that's opening me up to moments of transcendent bliss. But I still feel the stress over 'Am I thin enough? Am I too thin? Is my body the right shape?'

  Anne Hathaway

  Letting Go, Stress, Expectations

  "Anne Hathaway Talks About Her Husband, Her Haters, and More in Her January 2013 Glamour Interview". Interview with Eve Ensler, www.glamour.com. December 4, 2012.

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• I've been every size in the world. Parts of my 20s, I was in great shape, but I didn't appreciate it. If I was a 6 or an 8, I thought, "Why aren't I a 2 or a 4?" Now I feel like I have two great kids and the dreamiest husband on the planet, and everything else is just a work in progress.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Husband, Kids, Two

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• Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Sports, Bodybuilding, Training

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• For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most elaborate equipment was a deep reverence for the world through which they passed. Photographers share something with these artists. We seek only to see and to describe with our own voices, and, though we are seldom heard as soloists, we cannot photograph the world in any other way.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Spiritual, Artist

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• What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Memories, Character

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• "You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before, but never like that." It is the kind of photography that relies for its strengths not on special equipment or effects but on the intensity of the photographer's seeing. It is the kind of photography in which the raw materials-light, space, and shape-are arranged in a meaningful and even universal way that gives grace to ordinary objects."

  Sam Abell

  Meaningful, Photography, Taken

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• The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from out - and on the shapes that are created by it.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Lines, Force

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• . . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Art, Discovery

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• The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem

  Marcel Duchamp

  Beauty, Block, Chess Pieces

  Ecke Bonk, Marcel Duchamp (1989). “Marcel Duchamp, the box in a valise: De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy : inventory of an edition”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Motivational, Fear, Failure

  Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1968). “Unity, Freedom & Peace: A Blueprint for Tomorrow”

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• ...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in order to have enough....You geometers can calculate the area of circles, can reduce any given shape to a square, can state the distances separating starts. Nothing's outside your scope when it comes to measurement. Well, if you're such an expert, measure a man's soul; tell me how large or how small that is. You can define a straight line; what use is that to you if you've no idea what straightness means in life?

  Seneca the Younger

  Distance, Teaching, Mean

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• For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise boring article, braving the students who, fresh as each class may be, will still ask the same questions year after year. Psychological survival is not achieved without effort, and the environment must be managed, knocked about with one's elbows until it takes a shape comfortable to one's sense of self. This is not selfishness, for in reshaping the environment the academic is also reinvigorating the educational process.

  Robin Winks

  Educational, Teaching, Years

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• These seven centers, these seven chakras Yoga and Tantra have talked about down the ages, are nothing but five knots in your body electric current. They can be changed; they can be rearranged. They can be given a new shape, form. Two lovers can be transformed so deeply that all their seven centers can start meeting.

  Rajneesh

  Yoga, Two, Seven Chakras

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