Shifting Quotes - Page 12

• He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Philosophy, School

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• My creative process isn't a long one, so I could have started a song 10 years ago and then finish it 10 years later. It's all just about pushing around words and melodies, for me. The material is kind of shape-shifting.

  Antony Hegarty

  Song, Years, Long

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You're always kind of shifting and changing and it's a really exciting process.

  Chuck Ragan

  Kind, Process, Exciting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present

  Terry Brooks

  Mazes, Possibility

  Terry Brooks (2000). “The Scions of Shannara”, p.35, Del Rey

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• From millions of men . . . one man must step forward who with apodictic force will form granite principles from the wavering idea-world of the broad masses and take up the struggle for their sole correctness, until from the shifting waves of a fre thought-world there will arise a brazen cliff of solid unity in faith and will.

  Adolf Hitler

  Struggle, Men, Ideas

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

  Ken Wilber

  Arbitrary, Truth Is, Phenomenon

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• If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

  Tinashe

  Creative, Inspire, Persons

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• I remember getting my first cell phone in New York, getting into a taxi and thinking "This is the end of solitude in the back of a taxi." What used to happen in the back of a taxi? You looked out the window. My brain has become less able to spend lengths of time without shifting, and I worry about that.

  Dani Shapiro

  New York, Thinking, Phones

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm still primarily interested in observing as closely as possible the shifting weather between people. I think the master of this sort of thing, and a writer who has meant a great deal to me, is Henry James: there's a magical way that he has of turning the slightest gesture into a whole world of drama and feeling.

  Garth Greenwell

  Drama, Thinking, Weather

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• David Bowie's music is a moving target. Just when you think you got the bullseye, it shifts. And to his credit, on to death, it's still shifting. David Bowie is a moving target, even after he's gone.

  Carlos Alomar

  Moving, Thinking, Target

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Also, after Examined Life was finished I found myself thinking about the way creative opportunities and distribution channels were shifting. Should I be showing my films in theaters or just think about getting them out online? There were other issues, too.

  Astra Taylor

  Thinking, Opportunity, Issues

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Radio, or at least the kind of radio we're proposing to do, can cut through that. It can reach people who would otherwise never hear your work, and of course I find that very notion inspiring. Radio stories are powerful because the human voice is powerful. It has been and will continue to be the most basic element of storytelling. As a novelist (and I should note that working my novel is the first thing I do in the morning and the very last thing I do before I sleep), shifting into this new medium is entirely logical. It's still narrative, only with different tools.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Morning, Powerful, Sleep

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It carried quite a wallop. I have all the classic symptoms. Reflection. Where am I now? Where have I come from? What's important? Dealing with the moment of a different kind of feeling for mortality. Shifting of the body. Contextualizing or reevaluating behaviors and values. All those kinds of things.

  Keanu Reeves

  Reflection, Feelings, Important

  Source: www.today.com

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• Marshal Petain's Vichy regime looked like that new start. A couple of years later, it wasn't so evident that he was going to be able to protect them from German extortions, and it didn't look so much as though they had won the war, either. And so by '43, a lot of people are shifting sides.

  Robert O. Paxton

  Couple, War, Years

  "War Crime Investigations Among France's Release Of Vichy Documents". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• Do It With Style It's not enough that we want to change the world. It's not enough that our product is incredibly complex and our vision is vast and shifting. We're not just going to win, we're going to do it with style. That means a lot of different things, and a lot of what it means can't be captured in a handbook.

  Philip Rosedale

  Mean, Winning, Style

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• Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever subtler levels, without losing one's grip on the levels left behind. (...) Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind had built around you. Believe me, you will not regret.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Art, Wall, Regret

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• The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

  Gloria Swanson

  Sound, Actors, Foolish

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• There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It's like trying to write a song, making tiny tweaks, reading it out loud, shifting things to make it sound a certain way... Sometimes it feels like digging out of a hole, but sometimes it feels like flying. When it's working and the rhythm's there, it does feel like magic to me.

  Susan Orlean

  Song, Reading, Writing

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• How strange a scene is this in which we are such shifting figures, pictures, shadows. The mystery of our existence--I have no faith in any attempted explanation of it. It is all a dark, unfathomed profound.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Faith, Dark, Profound

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• In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.

  Michael Crichton

  Dark, People, Age

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Wise, World, Judgment

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps.

  Roger Angell

  Sports, Baseball, Slumps

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• The thumb does not have very a important role when shifting from one position to another. There is too much said, as it seems to me, about importance of the thumb... The thumb must lightly touch the neck and follow the forefinger when moving in different positions, aiding the hand to shift up and down without clutching the instrument.

  Leopold Auer

  Moving, Hands, Important

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• If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and ideology, I would be happy. Many leaders of the older generation dismiss emerging culture. Those leaders are at risk of becoming a feeble voice-piece without followers. Most of the younger generation is going deaf to the truth.

  Ted Dekker

  Voice, Leader, Risk

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• A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It also means there are going to be more people willing to pay.

  Marc Andreessen

  Mean, People, Pay

  "Ning will make all users pay" by Douglas MacMillan, www.sfgate.com. August 12, 2010.

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