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• Sungold blew impatiently and began to dig a hole with one foot. She booted his elbow with her toe and he stopped, but after a moment he lowered his head and blew again, harder, and she could feel him shifting his weight, considering if she might let him dig just a small hole.

  Robin McKinley

  Feet, Elbows, Weight

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• The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know. The hero journey is a symbol that binds, in the original sense of the word, two distant ideas, the spiritual quest of the ancients with the modern search for identity, “always the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find.

  Phil Cousineau

  Spiritual, Hero, Journey

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.19, New World Library

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• We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience.

  Joan Didion

  Order, Lines, Narrative

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• The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Journey, Expectations, Crumbling

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• I'm trying to keep"― he huffed, shifting his weight as the treetop bounced him―"my promise!" I blinked my wet blurry eyes, suddenly sure that I was dreaming. "When did you ever promise to kill yourself falling out of Charlie's tree?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Dream, Fall, Eye

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• Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Wall, Grieving, Wind

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• Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.

  Terence McKenna

  Tools, Phenomenology, Shapes

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• She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Apology, Trying, Path

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.65, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized. If the process is shifting from here to there, then any improvement will just be one more variation that is occasionally used and mostly ignored. One must standardize, and thus stabilize the process, before continuous improvement can be made.

  Masaaki Imai

  Variation, Impossible, Ignored

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• All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because were liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

  Deb Caletti

  Liars, Events, Viewpoints

  Deb Caletti (2013). “He's Gone: A Novel”, p.332, Bantam

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• Focus your awareness on the heart chakra. As you do, you will feel your consciousness shifting. You may feel different perceptions of energy in different parts of your body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

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• The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.

  Steven Weber

  Math, Imperfection, Austerity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe therapy can be done more rapidly. I'm into your finding the source of what's making you think and feel the way you do and shifting it quickly.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Thinking, Done

  Playboy Interview, www.awaken.com. August 17, 2013.

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• We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that's much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that.

  Jennifer Lee

  Views, Chinese, United States

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• Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality?

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Reality, World, Appearance

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.64, Harvard University Press

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• I think if you had different artists approaching the material in different styles, that's very different. I think it's an interesting thing to discover, what's present in the work even when you're shifting the styles. I've just found it a much stronger way to work.

  Daniel Clowes

  Artist, Thinking, Interesting

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Doors, Balance, Individual

  "The Rumpus Interview With Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 22, 2009.

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• Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our ethical vision. If our actions in the world are to stem from an encounter with what is central in life, they must be unclouded by either dogma or prevarication. Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Empathy, Risk, Vision

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• There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

  Paolo Sorrentino

  Rome, Sublime, Steps

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Colors do not exist separately and independently within nature; they are constantly shifting in response to subtle gradations of light. It is language that, magnificently, gives them clear shape.

  Kenya Hara

  Light, Color, Giving

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• Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Balance, Population, Weapons

  Address of Senator John F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, www.jfklibrary.org. July 15, 1960.

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• When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.

  Jeremy Gilley

  Thinking, Issues, Humanity

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• We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?

  Jesse Schell

  Games, Economy, Enjoyment

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• The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in extraordinary shape-shifting prose that makes this not just an important novel, but a remarkable read.

  Aminatta Forna

  Powerful, Important, Narrators

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• How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.

  Bill Hybels

  Prayer, Moving, Focus

  Bill Hybels, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (1994). “Prayer: Too Busy Not to Pray”, p.23, InterVarsity Press

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