Wonder Quotes - Page 9

• Wonder what customers really want? Ask. Don't Tell.

  Lisa Stone

  Want, Customers, Asks

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• To marvel at the wonders of the gospel is a sign of faith.

  Gerald Causse

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• And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis.

  Edgar Pangborn

  Folly, Nemesis, Persist

  Robert Silverberg, Roger Zelazny, Terry Carr, Edgar Pangborn (1973). “An exaltation of stars: transcendental adventures in science fiction”, Ultramarine Pub Co

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• Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?

  Stephen Hawking

  Ocean, Would Be, Sponges

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• There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.

  Alan Watts

  Laughter, Believe, Miracle

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• Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience.

  Carl Sagan

  Doe, Pseudoscience, Would Be

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.23, Ballantine Books

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• I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Laughing

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• The boys in the office preferred Daft Punk and the song "Robot Rock" as an anthem, speaking excitedly and without irony about wanting to become robots one day. That made me wonder: Why? What's the pull of being a robot?

  Katherine Losse

  Song, Boys, Rocks

  Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey Into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

  Robert Orben

  Taxation Without Representation, Might, Cheaper

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• I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.

  James Lee Burke

  Race, White, Vets

  James Lee Burke (2011). “Sunset Limited”, p.44, Island Books

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• Since I don't have access to the White House pastry chef anymore, it's done wonders for my figure.

  William J. Clinton

  White, House, Done

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• I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked back at the 20th and 21st centuries a thousand years from now, what their perception of the car would be. Or of television. I wonder if over time, they'll be seen as this thing that drove the culture, but ultimately had more downside than upside.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Technology, Thinking, Years

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing everyone a disservice by perpetuating the idea that beautiful is better than plain, because having done everything just about that you can do, sparing no expense, and not effort, to become better looking, I know that only so much can be done.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Beautiful, Ideas, Effort

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  People, Different, Firsts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Most people experience history as one damn fact after another in high school. But if you can wonder, "Wow, what if the US hadn't gotten involved in World War II?", you can become enthralled by the imaginary possibilities.

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  War, School, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A new study shows that the child population in San Francisco is dwindling and in fact San Francisco has the smallest share of children of any major city in the United States. That's odd, huh? For some reason couples in San Francisco don't seem to be reproducing as much as couples in other cities. Gee, I wonder what the problem is there? You think it might be something in the Rice-A-Roni?

  Jay Leno

  Children, Couple, Thinking

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• Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this. I like praying there at the window when I look out on the green and at the sky. I study with the birds, flowers, God and myself.

  Antonin Dvorak

  Religious, Flower, Artist

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• Nothing is more contagious than genuine love and genuine care. Nothing is more exhilarating than authentic awe and wonder. Nothing is more exciting than to witness people having the courage to fight for their highest vision.

  Michael Lerner

  Fighting, Genuine Love, Awe And Wonder

  Michael Lerner (2000). “Spirit Matters”, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated

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• I mean, you could lie here day after day, if you wanted to, and think about nothing but waterbugs. Not chase waterbugs, mind you, just think about them. You could spend your whole day, every day, just wondering and pondering about waterbugs, and talking to others about waterbugs . . . and before you realized it, you'd be old. One day you'd realize that you'd never actually seen a waterbug . . . but by then you wouldn't want to, because it would spoil all your beautiful ideas.

  Tad Williams

  Beautiful, Lying, Mean

  Tad Williams (2015). “Tailchaser's Song”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.

  Nhat Hanh

  Regret, Sorrow, Moments

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Happiness (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then they are the wonders of the deep and of the air, and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes.

  Washington Irving

  Dream, Air, Sea

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)”, p.16, e-artnow

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• Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish born in a deep shallowed pool. Wondering and restless, longing to reach out, they think about the world outside. They invent ingenious speculations and myths about the origin of the confining waters, of the sun and the sky and the stars above , and the meaning of their own existence. But they are wrong, always wrong because the world is too remote from ordinary experience to be merely imagined.

  E. O. Wilson

  Stars, Intelligent, Thinking

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• I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually waving at Stevie Wonder. Someone had to tell him, 'He can't see you.'

  Anne Robinson

  Benefits, Saws, Concerts

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• I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Squares, May, Harvard

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