Skip Quotes

• I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Running, Nature, Wind

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• You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Happiness, Running, Children

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• Skip your brain and go right to the gut.

  Elizabeth Streb

  Brain, Guts

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• Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.

  Knute Rockne

  Drinking, Alcohol, Cocktails

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• Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Time, Childhood, Growth

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.126, New Directions Publishing

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• I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Trying, Reader

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

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• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  Hal Borland

  Inspirational, Change, Meaningful

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• You gotta climb the steps... you can't skip them

  Zig Ziglar

  Steps, Climbs

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• It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  New Beginnings, Able, Violence

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1986). “Rodin and Other Prose Pieces”

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• Try not to write the parts that people skip.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, People, Trying

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• I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.

  Carly Schroeder

  Lunch, Years, Casting

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• So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, House

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• I'm going to be happy. I'm going to skip. I'm going to be glad. I'm going to be easy. I'm going to count my blessings. I'm going to look for reasons to feel good. I'm going to dig up positive things from the past. I'm going to look for positive things where I stand. I'm going to look for positive things in the future. It is my natural state to be a happy person. It's natural for me to love and to laugh. This is what is most natural for me. I am a happy person.

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Blessing, Past

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• Take nine strokes off your score. Skip the last hole.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Nine, Lasts

  Bob Hope (2004). “Bob Hope”, Hyperion

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• You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Love, Life, Acceptance

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• This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea--if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Children, Eye

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2014). “The Offshore Pirate: Short Story”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Running, Children, Creativity

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• My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.

  Liberace

  Music, Spiritual, Struggle

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• Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

  Thomas Nagel

  Growing Up, Philosophy, Childhood

  Thomas Nagel (1989). “The View From Nowhere”, p.12, Oxford University Press

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• I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward 'Gestalt' and the 'Twist', and lived to tell the tale.

  Calvin Trillin

  Mean, Twists, Gestalt

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• Marching onward, marching onward
  Marching to that lovely tune
  Marching onward, marching onward
  Happy as a bird in June
  
  Sliding onward, sliding onward
  Listen to that rag
  Hop and skip now do that slow, oh
  Do that slow drag
  
  Dance slowly, prance slowly
  Now you hear that pretty rag
  Dance slowly, prance slowly
  Now you do the real slow drag
  
  Waltz slowly, waltz slowly
  Listen to the ragtime
  Hop and skip
  Now do the slow, oh, do the slow drag

  Scott Joplin

  Real, June, Bird

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• Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you'll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off.

  Susan Cain

  New Year, Running, Home

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.265, Broadway Books

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• A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

  Alan Lightman

  Time, People, Movement

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.27, Vintage

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• Once you start deliberately offering thought, then you can never offer enough action to keep up with the thought. Once you access the Energy that creates worlds, a huge vortex comes into place, and there's just not enough action for you to keep up with that. And so, what you have to do is visualize every step of the way, envision you happy in the process. Envision things in place, envision people catching on. Just envision it working. Skip over the how and the where and the when and the who - and just stay focused upon the what and the why. Abraham

  Esther Hicks

  Offering, Catching On, People

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• My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Advice, Important

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