Thumbs Quotes - Page 4

• Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it. Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul. That's why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there'd be no Resistance.

  Steven Pressfield

  Self, Soul, Doubt

  "The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles". Book by Steven Pressfield, 2002.

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• Look at me, Emma." Her eyes are full, the lids heavy. "Graham," she breathes. "I need you to hear me." Cradling her head in my hands, thumbs sweeping her tears away, I stare into her eyes. "I belong to you. There is no one else. All I want is to be where you are.

  Tammara Webber

  Eye, Hands, Tears

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• She silenced him with her mouth, then pulled back. "You can't change what I think of you." He reached up and brushed her lower lip with his thumb. "If you truly knew me, everything you believe would change." "Your heart would be the same. And that is what I love.

  J.R. Ward

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

  J.R. Ward (2008). “Lover Enshrined: A Novel of The Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.194, Penguin

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• I never taught him to break him thumb." "That's Gansey for you. Only learns enough to be superficially competent." "Loser," Ronan agreed, and he was himself again.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Taught, Loser, Enough

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.268, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sean reaches out between us and takes my wrist. He press his thumb on my pulse. My heartbeat trips and surges against his skin. I'm pinned by his touch, a sort of fearful magic. We stand and stand, and I wait for my pulse against his finger to slow, but it doesn't Finally, he releases my wrist and says," I'll see you on the cliffs tomorrow.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Waiting, Magic, Skins

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• I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Issues, Nails, Boots

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.66

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• Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without ice cream!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Ice Cream, Eating, Cones

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• I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.

  Elia Kazan

  Thinking, Collaboration, Should

  Elia Kazan, Michel Ciment (1974). “Kazan on Kazan”, Viking Adult

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• I think the rule of thumb should be this: if you preface a sentence about a friend with the phrase, 'I love X, but... ' more than once in any conversation, you should stop hanging out with them.

  Sloane Crosley

  Thinking, Phrases, Should

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• For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the life they had prior to falling off the rollercoaster. I, however, will do this over a paper cut on my thumb, obsessing of said cut and being generally consumed by it.

  Sloane Crosley

  Fall, Taken, Cutting

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• The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

  Marc Chagall

  Knowing, Born, Fingers

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• Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.

  Ken Kesey

  Running, Girlfriend, Hurt

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.128, Hamilton Books

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• I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking my thumb. I'm not doing that. But I am loyal to the influences of my childhood.

  Nicolas Cage

  Reading, Men, Thinking

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• Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Two, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.144

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• It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Real, Rip, Book

  FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from May 20, 2012

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• They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable names In science, art and parlor games. But I, despite expert advice, Keep doing things I think are nice, And though to good I never come Inseparable my nose and thumb.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Nice, Thinking

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Character, People, Said

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• He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. "She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the way they were, and that she wished she could stop everything from changing. She got really nervous, like, talking about the future. She once told me that she could see herself now, and she could also see the kind of life she wanted to have - kids, husband, suburbs, you know - but she couldn't figure out how to get from point A to point B.

  Jodi Picoult

  Husband, Kids, Talking

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• But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Strong, Two, Different

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3418, e-artnow

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• Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.

  John Scalzi

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The rule of thumb for a director or producer - which prevents them from just sticking their names on everything - is that you have to contribute substantially more than 50 percent of the character dialogue and story.

  Harold Ramis

  Character, Names, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love comics, but I'd rather cut off my thumbs than do nothing but.

  Molly Crabapple

  Cutting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mouths, Seems, Ifs

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• If I hammer my own thumb while doing some DIY, it's not nice, but it's not the end of the world. To care obsessively about similar levels of discomfort in animals seems to be a case of mistaken moral priorities.

  Julian Baggini

  Nice, Animal, Priorities

  "Be pragmatic, not obsessive" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2009.

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• Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Jobs, Educational

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.40, Prabhat Prakashan

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