Zone Quotes - Page 5

• I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone.

  Michael Heizer

  Commitment, Thinking, Space

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• Especially in quail hunting, where the hunter is so focused on the bird that it makes everything else blurry. The bottom line in terms of bird hunting is what we call shooting zones.

  Steven Hall

  Hunting, Bird, Hunters

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• It's an ongoing process of reinterpreting the strike zone in accordance to the rulebook. The umpires, I think, are doing an excellent job of bringing the outside pitch in closer to the plate. But I still think we have a lot of work to do with the low end of the strike zone.

  Sandy Alderson

  Jobs, Thinking, Umpires

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• If you don't ever get out of your comfort zone you will never make it to the end zone!.

  Deborah Roberts

  Comfort, Ends, Ifs

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• The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.

  George W. Norris

  War, Government, President

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• I'm very musically curious and I love new experience. I'm an adventurer. Some people want to sort of stay in a safe zone and repeat the same things and give them more depth, and I want to do new things all the time

  Tavis Smiley

  New Experiences, People, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom and just unloading on a class, but I knew to take the scenic route to go to the grocery store to avoid certain elements.

  Questlove

  War, Class, Philadelphia

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• We tried to talk about [the Owls' zone], but it's hard to replicate it. It's nearly impossible to penetrate that zone. What you do get are open outside shots. You're going to have to make some of them.

  Chris Mooney

  Owl, Impossible, Shots

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• Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.

  Stanley Fish

  Writing, Practice, Time Zones

  "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

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• There is a perverse comfort zone to living a small life. For women, that zone has to do with the fact that we're less likely to be challenged, we're less likely to be criticized, we're less likely to be called angry or strident, if we simply go along and acquiesce to the prevailing patterns of thought and behavior.

  Marianne Williamson

  Patterns, Facts, Comfort

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 09, 2012.

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• Anyone know any long-term couples living three time zones apart?

  Amy Argetsinger

  Couple, Time Zones, Long

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You're trying to get a comfort zone with the parents. You want the family to feel comfortable with me in charge of their son.

  Tommy Bowden

  Son, Parent, Trying

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• When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Defense, Looks, Matter

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• For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

  Alan Arkin

  Years, Judging, Acting

  Alan Arkin (2011). “An Improvised Life: A Memoir”, p.51, Da Capo Press

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• We send our [peacekeepers] off to some disputed zone, full of local intrigue and power blocs and uncertainty and danger, and they are supposed to save lives not with their weapons, but through their competence and their character. And they do it.

  Romeo LeBlanc

  Character, Weapons, Save A Life

  Speech on the occasion of the presentation of the insignia of the Order of Military Merit, February 05, 1997.

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• I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired.

  Kim Jong Il

  Wire, Experts, Politics

  "North Korea Dear Leader Kim Jong Il: 'I’m an Internet Expert Too'" by Jacqui Cheng, arstechnica.com. October 05, 2007.

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• But please remember, that in 1991 in the Sejm [lower chamber of polish parliament] I didn't demand the abolishment of Special Economic Zones. I demanded the creation of a single Special Economic Zone - which would encompass the whole country!

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Country, Special, Demand

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke's blog, April 7, 2010.

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• Let's take back the rainbow for God. Let the homosexual community find a different religious symbol to commandeer... What I want is for the Christian community to wake up, wipe the sleep from their eyes, and realize that they are in a spiritual battle that isn't going away and has no demilitarized zones. The rainbow is a symbol, but it's meaning points to the very character of God. So Christians, use this God-given symbol for His glory. Using it won't make you a homosexual.

  Ken Hutcherson

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

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• Money doesn't make you happy, but it gives a zone of comfort around you.

  Maeve Binchy

  Happiness, Success, Giving

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• The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.

  Niall Ferguson

  History, Racist, Prosperity

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• I'm going through the neutral zone and I've got a guy tugging me through the whole way, if I don't go down, I'm not going to get a call.

  Paul Kariya

  Nhl, Guy, Tugging

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• People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.

  Kate Adie

  War, Team, People

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• The forces are different up here at the continental divide. The magnetic lines of energy run in specific directions. The United States is divided into power zones. The Divide itself is the point where the energy meets.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Energy

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• My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.

  Nolan Gerard Funk

  Comfort, Actors, Fantasy

  "Nolan Gerard Funk Joins The Cool Kids". Interview with Javy Rodriguez, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2013.

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• The ultimate comfort zone is within.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Comfort, Comfort Zone, Ultimate

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