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• Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.12, CLC Publications

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• Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. These threads are interdependent and complementary, and if one set is lacking the fabric does not exist. A picture with no representational purpose is to my mind always an incomplete technical exercise, for the only purpose of any picture is to achieve representation.

  Juan Gris

  Exercise, Mind, Doe

  "On the Possibilities of Painting". Lecture, Sorbonne, May 15, 1924.

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• The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.

  Jose Saramago

  Men, Order, Long

  "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 54), 2003.

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• It's destiny! Perhaps it is the energy that pulls on the threads and, well, I'm just leaving it as it is meant to be.

  Liu Dan

  Destiny, Leaving, Energy

  Interview with Jane DeBevoise, www.aaa-a.org. March 25, 2010.

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• Questions are far more effective than defensive statements. They do not imply agreement, but they do convey interest and a desire to understand and facilitate an environment for peak performance, a central thread of effective leadership.... The next time someone accuses you of virtually anything, ask some questions. Resolving the situation may take more time, but the outcome will likely be more productive for both of you.

  Stephen Young

  Agreement, Desire, May

  Stephen Young (2006). “Micromessaging: Why Great Leadership is Beyond Words: Why Leadership is Great Beyond Words”, p.17, McGraw Hill Professional

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• There are those who hold that there is a pattern to all that is said and done in this world, that no thing happens without reason nor out of time. As to that, I cannot speak, for I have seen too many threads cut short to believe it, but of a surety, I have seen too the weft of my fate shuttled on the loom. If there is a pattern, I do not think there is anyone among us who can stand at a great enough distance to discern it; yet I will not say that it is not so.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Distance, Believe, Fate

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.228, Macmillan

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• Today, let's set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we're not. Let's cut the threads of guilt with grace.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Thankful, Heart, Cutting

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from May 14, 2014

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• I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me.

  Neal Stephenson

  Machines, Littles, Needles

  Neal Stephenson (2007). “Zodiac”, p.74, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them.

  Jim Goldberg

  Running, Asking Questions, Order

  "Jim Goldberg: Open See". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• We're not giving what we're called to give, unless that giving affects how we live - affects what we put on our plate and where we make our home and hang our hat and what kind of threads we've got to have on our back. Surplus Giving is the leftover you can afford to give; Sacrificial Giving is the love gift that changes how you live - because the love of Christ has changed you. God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.

  Ann Voskamp

  Home, First Love, Giving

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• Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.

  Damien Fahey

  Funny, Evolution, Forget

  Twitter post from May 11, 2012

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• It's nice to be able to support programs like 5 Hole Threads' in our communities to keep more kids involved in sports. The Life lessons that are learned from being a teammate are so valuable. All kids deserve the chance to experience that.

  Dan Ellis

  Sports, Nice, Life Lesson

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• There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

  Maggie Smith

  Actors, Kind, Invisible

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• Weave your creative threads in the dark and then when the sun hits them, they will glisten with intricate beauty.

  Ted Andrews

  Dark, Creative, Sun

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• Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.

  Joan Halifax

  Spiritual, Essence, Soul

  Joan Halifax (2009). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.199, Shambhala Publications

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• The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

  Carl Jung

  Men, World

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• Think of all your experiences as a huge tapestry that can be laid out in whatever pattern you wish. Each day you add a new thread to the weaving. Do you craft a curtain to hide behind, or do you fashion a magic carpet that will care you to unequaled heights?

  Tony Robbins

  Fashion, Thinking, Magic

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 21, 2014

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• Threads that drift alone will sometimes simply twine themselves together, without need for spindle or distaff: brought into each other’s ambit, they bind themselves tight with the force of their own torsion. And this same torsion can, in the course of things, bundle the resulting cord back upon itself, ravelling it up into a skein, returning to the point of its beginning.

  Jo Baker

  Together, Needs, Sometimes

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• It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway through the loom, that's the present, and what we do casts the thread in a particular direction, and the picture of the tapestry changes accordingly. When we begin to to try to make a picture pleasing to us and to those who come after, then perhaps you can say that we have seized history.

  Kim Stanley

  Trying, Century, Midway

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• Art is personal, originating from dreams, ideas, neuroses; art is shared, harkening back to the humans around the fire; art imbues pleasure and power by enabling people to know reality...Art is a necessity because it is a way of knowing...Is the need for truth physiological? Art exists out of time...images may be different bu there is always a repetition- a thread.

  Zelda Fichandler

  Dream, Art, Reality

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• You've got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon' be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Ends, Figures, Needles

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• Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

  Gustav Meyrink

  Running, Writing, Earth

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• Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament.

  John Badham

  Fishing, Ties, Black

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• This whole electric universe is a complex maze of similar tensions. Every particle of matter in the universe is separated from its condition of oneness, just as the return ball is separated from the hand, and each is connected with the other one by an electric thread of light which measures the tension of that separateness.

  Walter Russell

  Light, Hands, Oneness

  Walter Russell (1947). “The Secret of Light”, p.140, Рипол Классик

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• So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.

  Michael York

  Destiny, Two, Titles

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