Finely Quotes
84 quotes by 73 authors
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I hunt because I love the entire process: the preparations, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woodslore against the finely honed…
— Fred Bear
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Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or…
— Aristotle
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The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.
— George Smoot
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Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
— Arnold Bennett
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M. J. Putney's writing has always been magical; now that she has turned her hand to the telling of a fantasy tale, it sparkles on…
— Elizabeth Haydon
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I’m so thrilled to manufacture in LA and to support the finely skilled craftsmen and women. Making it in America ensures that the fashion industry…
— Nanette Lepore
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The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written…
— David Selbourne
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We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we…
— Berenice Abbott
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Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.
— Gautama Buddha
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It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the…
— Aristotle
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The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are not to be…
— Hal Porter
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When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancerous tumor, for example, is born…
— Neil Shubin
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The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons…
— Adrian Tchaikovsky
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The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a worldwide basis. It…
— Charles Francis Richter
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In addition to pumping the blood of life within our bodies, we may think of the heart as a belief-to-matter translator. It converts the perceptions…
— Gregg Braden
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A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]
— Gary Shteyngart
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The Academy for Guided Imagery has created and finely honed an exquisite training program. Years of development and feedback has resulted in a creative program…
— Jeanne Achterberg
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There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone.…
— Athol Fugard
Who Wrote These Finely Quotes
73 authors contributed a total of 84 Finely Quotes, led by these top contributors: