Thumbs Quotes - Page 9

• No matter where you are in the world the moon is never bigger than your thumb.

  John Dear

  Moon, World, Matter

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• Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North--meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others. Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

  Steven Pressfield

  Oil, Soul, Important

  Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.14, Black Irish Books

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• I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want fans to think heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen.

  Layne Staley

  Writing, Thinking, Thumbs Up

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• I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the foundation of our ecosystems, the little things, as I like to say, who run the world.

  E. O. Wilson

  Running, Ecosystems, Foundation

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• We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the distance of the Moon you can put your thumb up and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything that you've ever known, your loved ones, your business, the problems of the Earth itself-all behind your thumb. And how insignificant we really all are, but then how fortunate we are to have this body and to be able to enjoy loving here amongst the beauty of the Earth itself.

  Jim Lovell

  Distance, Moon, Thumbs Up

  "In the Shadow of the Moon". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches.

  Tim McCarver

  Mean, Giving, Use

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• If I fell into a barrel of boobs, I'd come out sucking my thumb

  Ian Holloway

  Barrels, Ifs

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• There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist — Then he was a Man and a Positivist.

  Mortimer Collins

  Men, Hair, Apes

  Mortimer Collins, F. Percy Cotton (1886). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins”

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• And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

  Patricia Ireland

  Men, Law, Discipline

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• I know that [Mike] Tyson talked about wanting to eat his opponent's children, but I don't think he ever had the balls to do it. I'm different - when I kidnapped Bill Lawrence's daughter, I cut off all of her fingers before sending my demands so that I wouldn't have to sit there and wait for him to ignore them. We worked things about about nine hours in, which is good because I ate her thumb as a midnight snack.

  Zach Braff

  Daughter, Children, Cutting

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• Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the centre. Though their intrigue left Euclid dumb There's now no need for rule of thumb. Since zero bend's a dead straight line And concave bends have minus sign, The sum of squares of all four bends Is half the square of their sum.

  Frederick Soddy

  Zero, Distance, Math

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• One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters

  Walter Isaacson

  Air, Pressure, Journalism

  "Buying the War". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 25, 2007.

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• To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Design, Nails, Looks

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• If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.

  Jessye Norman

  Thinking, Thumbs Up, Air

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• Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

  Ogden Nash

  Sports, Clever, Psychology

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• "No one is doing what we're doing." This is a bummer of a lie because there are only two logical conclusions. First, no one else is doing this because there is no market for it. Second, the entrepreneur is so clueless that he can't even use Google to figure out he has competition. Suffice it to say that the lack of a market and cluelessness is not conducive to securing an investment. As a rule of thumb, if you have a good idea, five companies are going the same thing. If you have a great idea, fifteen companies are doing the same thing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Lying, Clueless, Ideas

  Guy Kawasaki (2008). “Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition”, p.48, Penguin

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• Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.

  David Elkind

  Encouraging, Education, Baby

  David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• You will be surprised to learn how some very knowing people have misunderstood Plotto. On glancing at it, some of the intelligentia have jumped at the false conclusion, that Plotto is a dictionary of situations, a mechanism that yields a cut and dried plot by the mere use of a thumb index. Plotto, to the contrary, merely suggests the situations for the plot, explains what is to be done through Purpose and Obstacle and even offers suggestions as to the way in which it should be done.

  William Wallace Cook

  Cutting, Yield, Knowing

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• From the moon, the Earth is so small and so fragile, and such a precious little spot in that Universe, that you can block it out with your thumb. Then you realize that on that spot, that little blue and white thing, is everything that means anything to you — all of history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love, tears, joy, games, all of it right there on that little spot that you can cover with your thumb. And you realize from that perspective that you’ve changed forever, that there is something new there, that the relationship is no longer what it was.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Art, Block, Mean

  "Reflections From Paris and Beirut" by Samie Al-Achrafi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2015.

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• The US no longer does decisions. It can neither stop the drug traffic nor legalize it. It can neither win wars nor abandon them, neither make money nor stop spending it, neither stop immigration nor assimilate the immigrants. Washington can beat its thumb with a hammer, yes, and notice that it hurts, but it can't stop beating its thumb. That would take a decision, and Washington doesn't do decisions.

  Fred Reed

  Hurt, War, Winning

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• Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

  John W. Gardner

  Happiness, Use, Talent

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• Security is a thumb and a blanket. Happiness is a warm puppy.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Happiness, Puppy, Blanket

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• I get the thumbs up like I'm hailing a yellow cab.

  Nicki Minaj

  Thumbs Up, Yellow, Bragging

  Twitter post from Jan 7, 2010

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• Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

  Alexander Pope

  Oats, Hands, Agriculture

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• Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough. Thick line. Straight toward you. - Look.

  Rolf Jacobsen

  Book, Moon, Night

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