Zone Quotes - Page 33

• Failure does not exist. Once you hit the construction zone road blocks, follow the detour signs to get back to ur original path.

  Behdad Sami

  Block, Doe, Detours

  Twitter post from Aug 15, 2014

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• It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

  Bill Gates

  Ecosystems, People, Climate

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on How to Stop Global Warming". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. December 9, 2010.

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• Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone". Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.

  Stephen Covey

  Goal, Challenges, Scare

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks to our blood....What a perfect maturity it arrives at! It is the emblem of a successful life concluded by a death not premature, which is an ornament to Nature. What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the poke!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Successful, Maturity, Roots

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• You get to play with people's little danger zones.

  George Carlin

  Play, People, Littles

  "Bob Saget Riffs on 'The Aristocrats'". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 12, 2005.

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• My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - something by definition incompatible with art.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Ignorance, Character

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• Some people like to keep their grass cut really short, so they can see the intruders coming. Keep those kill zones open. I say let the grass grow tall so they don't know there's a house behind it. Some call it lazy, I say it's thinking.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Cutting, Thinking, People

  "Jeff Foxworthy: Totally Committed", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• I personally didn't see personal atrocities in the sense I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that. However, I did take part in free-fire zones, I did take part in harassment and interdiction fire, I did take part in search-and-destroy missions.

  John F. Kerry

  Cutting, Fire, Atrocities

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• There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire.

  John F. Kerry

  Fire, Soldier, Atrocities

  John F. Kerry's testimony before subcommittees of the U.S. Senate (April 18, 1971), as quoted on "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. April 18, 2004.

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• I'm generally more and more in my comfort zone in the wild.

  Tom Felton

  Comfort, Comfort Zone

  "Tom Felton Talks About Reading, Collecting, and Being Draco". Interview with Marie Morreale, www.scholastic.com.

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• In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.

  Al Roker

  Pregnancy, Female, Realizing

  Al Roker (2000). “Don't Make Me Stop this Car!: Adventures in Fatherhood”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.

  John Wilmot

  Broken, Lovers, Fainting

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• Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.

  Twyla Tharp

  Running, Responsibility, Sight

  Twyla Tharp (2009). “The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game

  Herb Kohl

  Basketball, Sports, Games

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• The ‘friend zone’ is like the penalty box of dating, only you can never get out. Once a girl decides you’re her ‘friend,’ it’s game over. You’ve become a complete non-sexual entity in her eyes, like her brother, or a lamp.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Girl, Brother, Eye

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• It is not my behavior to either wear minimum clothes, to band or to even be comfortable with a sex-symbol label. I just want to do fine work instead of sporting such meaningless tags. Sex sells, but to a small extent, not always. And this is what filmmakers have to accept. The exposure has to be significant to the film and its characters and not forced for the sake of titillation. On the contrary, some of the greatest Indian films have been devoid of all these sexual trappings. I know my comfort zone in today's Indian culture and society.

  Katrina Kaif

  Sex, Character, Clothes

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• Pedagogy must be oriented not to the yesterday, but to the tomorrow of the child's development. Only then can it call to life in the process of education those processes of development which now lie in the zone of proximal development

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Children, Lying, Yesterday

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• Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores.

  Van Jones

  People, Community, Climate

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• When I was younger, Jackie Joyner-Kersee was a mentor to me and gave me great advice. The best was to 'work 100 percent, but enjoy every moment along the way.' Sometimes you get so in the zone, you forget to enjoy your passions. I love running—but I also love the movies, relaxing on the beach, shopping and spending time with my friends. Enjoying my life helps me enjoy my running.

  Allyson Felix

  Running, Beach, Passion

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• No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

  Sheldon Richman

  Government, Matter, Problem

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• Police do not belong in war zones.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  War, Police, War Zones

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• I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

  Manuel Puig

  Believe, Special, Literature

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• We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.

  Pema Chodron

  Fall, Essence, Safety

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• The zone is a place that you rarely visit. It's not some place you go every week. The zone is sacred ground.

  Joe Greene

  Places You Go, Sacred, Week

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• But it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod our hellos to as we pass on the street? A rather good question to ask - particularly in The Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Twilight, People, Good Questions

  "Fictional character: Narrator". "The Twilight Zone/ The After Hours", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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