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• These are the technicalities. The jetes and pirouettes.. but the music of the dance lies in the subtle signals between the steps: the fish's delivery of them, the fisherman's read of and response to them, which, if she's good, must be near telepathic. That's what takes a death-grip on your concentration. That's why your mind empties of all trivia, which, when playing a fish, includes just about everything else you could possible think of. That is what anglers live for.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Lying, Thinking, Lakes

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• We do a lot of talking with our mouths, but we don't necessarily realize the signals we give out physically with our body posture when we're talking to people.

  Andrew Stone

  Talking, People, Giving

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Everything that happens to you is self-created. Whenever you're responding to any situation, whether it's a sip of coffee, or a traffic jam, or a love note, or criticism from a boss, or rainy weather, you're in fact responding to a signal that you generated within yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Coffee, Weather, Self

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• [The Internet] ... is an amazing communications tool that's bringing the whole world together. I mean, you sit down to sign on to America Online in your hometown, and it's just staggering to think that at the same moment, halfway around the world, in China, someone you've never met is sitting at their computer, hearing the exact same busy signal that you're hearing.

  Dennis Miller

  Communication, Mean, Thinking

  Dennis Miller (1999). “Ranting Again”, Main Street Books

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• Many people feel unaware of any guidance, unable to discern or understand the signals of God; not because the signals are not given, but because the mind is too troubled, clouded, and hurried to receive them.

  Evelyn Underhill

  People, Mind, Guidance

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• It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God may wake someday and take offense, or the waking God may draw us out to where we can never return.

  Annie Dillard

  Sleep, Issues, Church

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.173, Canongate Books

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• Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Soul, Rallying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.303

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• The lighthouse of the Lord sends forth signals readily recognized and never failing

  Thomas S. Monson

  Lighthouse, Failing, Lord

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• There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Past, Men, Miracle

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.63

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• If one official signals Falcons ball and Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson signals Seahawks ball, is it a jump ball?

  Norman Chad

  Funny, Balls, Comedy

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• Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence is as clear as the sounds of glass shattering in Berlin.

  Al Gore

  Clouds, Glasses, Holocaust

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• Everybody dismissed athletes as being purely physical, but when you retire, you go from such an intense brain time - study of defense, audibles, hand signals, plays, adjustments - to a level of mental inactivity that's hard to comprehend. It's a big reason why I stay so active. Creating, evolving.

  Thomas Jones

  Athlete, Hands, Play

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• A federal bailout would spare California from having to make spending cuts needed to bring its budget into balance. The matter has become urgent since California voters rejected several tax-hiking ballot initiatives. Rather than taking the vote as a signal to dramatically curtail spending, the state turned to the feds. If they get a free pass, the politicians can avoid fixing any of their past mistakes or preparing California for the future.

  Peter Schiff

  Mistake, Cutting, Past

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• All the research shows that the presence of that phone will do two things to the conversation. It will make the conversation go to trivial matters, and it will decrease the amount of empathy that the two people in the conversation feel toward each other. That phone is a signal that either of us can put our attention elsewhere.

  Judy Woodruff

  Two, Phones, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We must pay close attention to the signals our body sends - the aches and pains, digestions and indigestions, increased energies and exhaustions. Our body sends us signals about the correct 'spelling' of our lives. These sensations are the sum of complex inner computations that we must learn to interpret.

  Susan Collins

  Pain, Body, Pay

  Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

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• Previous technologies have expanded communication. But the last round may be contracting it. The eloquence of letters has turned into the unnuanced spareness of texts; the intimacy of phone conversations has turned into the missed signals of mobile phone chat ... ('you're breaking up' is the cry of our time).

  Rebecca Solnit

  Communication, Technology, Phones

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness”, p.258, Trinity University Press

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• Once you become aware of what stands in your way and become willing to release it, you signal the universe that you are ready to manifest the life you were meant to live.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Motivational, Way, Release

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• uproar against a new idea, and laws to prevent anybody's accepting it, nearly always can be regarded as a signal that the new idea is just about to be taken for granted. ... they didn't start making laws to prohibit the teaching of evolution until everybody was about to take it for granted.

  Gwen Bristow

  Taken, Teaching, Ideas

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• I began to see motorcyclists who had attached computer discs to their back mudflaps, because they made good reflectors. In a place called Xingwuying, locals climbed the Great Wall whenever they wanted to receive a cell phone signal.

  Peter Hessler

  Wall, Phones, Cells

  Peter Hessler (2010). “Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip”, p.94, Canongate Books

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• The message of frustration is an exciting signal. it means that your brain beleives you could be doing better than you currently are.

  Tony Robbins

  Mean, Frustration, Brain

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

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• Belief in oneself is a crucial quality of leadership, because 'a house divided against itself cannot stand.' A leader who fluctuates back and forth sends a very wavery signal. Like the soprano who can shatter glass by finding that high note and holding it, a leader who can hold that high note, without wavering, can shatter walls.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Leadership, Wall, Glasses

  Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

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• A high regard for the things of this world always signals a lowering regard for God.

  Beth Moore

  Christian, World, Regard

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• God loves the noise as much as the signal.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Noise, God Love

  Lewis M. Branscomb (1997). “Confessions of a Technophile”, p.45, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Asking, "How much is it?" is THE BIGGEST buying signal. Telling me, "Your price is too high." is THE SECOND BIGGEST buying signal

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Asking, Buying

  Twitter post from Feb 10, 2016

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• the body, seeking truth, sends a signal. But decoding it, interpreting its meaning, and knowing how to proceed from there is another matter entirely.

  Harriet Lerner

  Communication, Knowing, Body

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