Fixed Quotes
994 quotes by 807 authors
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One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get…
— Meister Eckhart
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But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those…
— William Carlos Williams
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One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going…
— Freya Stark
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If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming…
— Brian Tracy
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The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is…
— David Hockney
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That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.
— Pema Chodron
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Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot…
— Eugene Delacroix
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In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided…
— Alexander MacLaren
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Neither ancients nor moderns who were good men have done such ,a deed that, after promising ,a daughter to one man, they have her to…
— Guru Nanak
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What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled…
— Louise Bourgeois
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We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.
— Asger Jorn
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The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force that takes the…
— Frank Griswold
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To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality.…
— Adyashanti
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A photograph to me is always a reminder of how the person was on a certain day in that certain light fixed. When I look…
— Francesco Clemente
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A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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A key difference between a dialogue and an ordinary discussion is that, within the latter people usually hold relatively fixed positions and argue in favor…
— David
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My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I…
— David
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This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when…
— Karen Thompson Walker
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The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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