Unfamiliar Quotes

• A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.

  Denis Waitley

  Dream, Creative, Vision

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• The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

  Hippocrates

  Writing, Editing, Plain Language

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• It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, Atheism, Weak

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• There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.

  Kenny Werner

  Easy, Difficult, Familiar

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• There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.

  Thomas Schelling

  Planning, Tendencies, Improbable

  "America at Risk: Two Novels President Obama Should Read". www.foxnews.com. March 31, 2009.

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• I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial learning process. The things we now do automatically, such as perspective, pencil control, values and composition were as unfamiliar and intimidating as a foreign language.

  Ted Martinez

  Determination, Frustration, Perspective

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• "Stepping outside your comfort zone is supposed to feel uncomfortable because we're in new and unfamiliar territory. Being uncomfortable is a sign of success, NOT of failure! So if we are uncomfortably outside our comfort zones, then than means we are growing!!! And THAT is cause for celebration!" (modified from a passage in Roz Savage's "Rowing the Atlantic")

  Roz Savage

  Mean, Comfort, Savages

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• In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Art, Men, Order

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• If you watch the first [Star Wars] movie, you don't actually know exactly what the Empire is trying to do. They're going to rule by fear -- but you don't know what their endgame is. You don't know what Leia is princess of. You don't yet understand who Jabba the Hutt is, even though there is a reference to him. You don't know that Vader is Luke's father, Leia is his sister -- but the possibility is all there. The beauty of that movie was that it was an unfamiliar world, and yet you wanted to see it expand and to see where it went.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, War, Father

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• The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that, though the transcendental must involve the strange and unfamiliar, not everything strange or unfamiliar is transcendental.

  Mark Rothko

  Exotic, Strange, Realizing

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.58, Yale University Press

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• The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life.

  Charles Willson Peale

  Flower, Mystery, Chains

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• In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.

  Maya Angelou

  Wise, Innovation, Suggestions

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.30, Random House

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• Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Faith, Adversity, Angel

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• You've got my heart in unfamiliar territory. It's never been out here on my sleeve. But here tonight with you it's quite a different story. You bring out a side of me no one has ever seen.

  Toby Keith

  Fall, Heart, Tonight

  Song: In Other Words, Album: Boomtown

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• Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.

  Nelson Goodman

  Writing, School, Artist

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• When a possibility is unfamiliar to us, we do not even think about it.

  Nate Silver

  Thinking, Investing, Possibility

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.287, Penguin

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• There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.

  Richard Dawkins

  Effort, World, Way

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• I feel like utopia is neither here nor there. It's in that sort of space where you feel the most present, and that can be on tour [or] at home. It's easier to get to that place on tour because your environment is constantly changing, and from a very primal, evolutionary perspective, you have heightened awareness when you're in an unfamiliar place, so it's easier to access that state.

  Taraka Larson

  Home, Space, Perspective

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

  William Butler Yeats

  Philosophy, Fighting, Philosopher

  "The Letters of W.B. Yeats".

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• I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

  Ang Lee

  Population, World, West

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• Sometimes I talk to myself in languages I'm unfamiliar with... just to screw with my subconscious.

  Steven Wright

  Language, Sometimes, Subconscious

  "When the Leaves Blow Away". Documentary, Comedy, 2006.

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• The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Love Is, Fire

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 4 (1942)

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• I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

  Steven Wright

  Humor, Territory, Lost

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• But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Home, Support, Solitude

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• Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce about…go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar landscapes, see new things.

  Gary Jennings

  Adventure, People, Reminiscing

  Gary Jennings (2016). “Aztec”, p.324, Macmillan

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