Standing Out Quotes - Page 8

• I thought it was strange that I was called after a woman who killed herself in ancient literature. You just don't call your kid Dido and send her to school. But it's great for me now. It's just another thing that makes me stand out.

  Dido Armstrong

  School, Kids, Ancient Literature

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Festivals are a way for new people to see who you are and you can feel pressured to stand out, but just do your thing and be proud of that. Don't stress out, and know that nothing is supposed to be perfect.

  Kelcey Ayer

  Stress, People, Perfect

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• There's nothing confessional about crafting and shaping a story out of a lived life. In fact, it's quite the opposite - the writer has to be able to transcend the life, to see it as if standing outside of it, in order to be able to make something of it. There's something enormously satisfying and gratifying about crafting something, taking all that chaos and giving it shape.

  Dani Shapiro

  Order, Opposites, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

  Harold Geneen

  Diamond, Performances

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• The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.

  Auguste Rodin

  Children, Flower, Relief

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• I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Men, Unique, Views

  "Women Have the Skills to Stand Out in STEM Fields" by Padmasree Warrior, blogs.cisco.com. June 20, 2013.

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• Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific reputation as the easiest to cultivate, richly nutritious and medicinally supportive.

  Paul Stamets

  Environmental Health, Oysters, Mushrooms

  "The Mighty Oyster Mushroom: The Workhorse of Gourmet Fungi" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• The example of parents is the greatest teacher. Parents must stand out as models of happiness to their children.

  Robert Muller

  Teacher, Children, Parent

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• I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will always stand out. And so the galleries began to hang my work in their best rooms, always in the middle, because my painting was attractive. It was precise. It was 'finished'.

  Tamara de Lempicka

  Rooms, Firsts, Painting

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• We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble themselves under the banner of the most knavish among them, and become politicians; the wise man stands out, because he knows himself to be hopelessly out-numbered, and devotes himself to poetry, mathematics or philosophy; while the ninety fools plod off behind the banners of the nine villains, according to fancy, into the labyrinths of chicanery, malice and warfare.

  T. H. White

  Wise, Philosophy, Optimistic

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• If I ever wanted a gnome, I guess Id just stand out on my lawn for a while.

  Johnny Christ

  Lawns, Gnome, Wanted

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• A certain month or a certain season can elicit a certain emotional response. That is certainly true for anyone who has a negative anniversary on their calendar, the approach of that month brings the feeling of being very much back in another room. It is a time that stands outside the rest of the year.

  Oz Perkins

  Emotional, Feelings, Negative

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• From the public's perspective, they like to see guys that go out there and stand. Now, if you happen to be one of those two athletes that are standing out there and trading with each other, afterwards you would disagree with those people. The spectators are not on the receiving end of all those strikes. I have young guys who say, "I like to stand and trade." I say, "Really? Then you are not a very intelligent fighter."

  Dan Severn

  Athlete, Intelligent, Perspective

  Source: m.bleacherreport.com

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• When you put an image on the newsstand, you have literally two seconds to get somebody's attention. Often, with many of the subscriber covers, they're far away and the thing that catches your attention more than anything on the newsstand is eye contact.Because you've got a smaller image, and sometimes a darker image, often it doesn't stand out, as much as a traditional newsstand cover, which is why we continue to do right for newsstand.

  Glenda Bailey

  Eye, Attention, Sometimes

  Source: wwd.com

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• Right away, I knew I didn't want to have that look of other guys with long hair and bell-bottom pants, because everybody else had that look. I kind of adopted my boarding-school look, which made me stand out. Then the next thing you know, the first song on my first record is a song called "School Days." It's about going to the boarding school I went to. So then I just started to write about myself. The very first song I ever wrote was about a guy I met in a boatyard that we were working in. So I've always had this thing about sticking to more or less what I knew.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Song, Writing, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The look of the movie and the music, which was by Jack Nitzsche, is what really stands out to me. I don't know if the movie succeeds as a political, cultural comment on the times and the war in Vietnam, and the capitalists versus the everyday guy that gets sent off to fight corporate wars. I don't know if the movie ever succeeded in that range. But it was a wonderful part in the Cutter's Way.

  John Heard

  War, Fighting, Guy

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• I had learnt from going to Houghton that to make a room quiet, to make it harmonious, you never wanted to have only one 'mouvement' thng like the Savonnerie rug that would stand out. You must have 'mouvement' everywhere.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Design, Rooms, Quiet

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• An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Past, Thinking

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• I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.

  Martha Raddatz

  Thinking, Land, Trying

  "Women Reporters Face Added Risks In Conflict Zones". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 22, 2011.

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• They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.

  Francis Atterbury

  Believe, Discovery, Other Worlds

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• When you’re different you’ve got two choices. You can stand out or you step back.

  Niall Williams

  Two, Choices, Different

  Niall Williams (2014). “History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014”, p.106, A&C Black

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• If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but then, what is work? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course - but then, many reputable trades are quite useless.

  George Orwell

  Doors, Weather, Differences

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• Tomorrow's God says that every church is 'his church,' and every faith is 'her faith,' and every soul is God's soul, because it shares the same soul with God! .. And no person or living thing in the universe stands outside the community of God.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Community, Soul, Church

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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• Intuitively, one would assume if you don't grow up with other children you might not learn that easy give and take. What often happens is that there are some only children who act that way, and that stands out more than the only children who seem to get along with others.

  Peter Thomas

  Children, Growing Up, Giving

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• The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

  James A. Garfield

  Sunshine, Government, People

  "Garfield: A Biography". Book by Allen Peskin, 1978.

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