Gradually Quotes
699 quotes by 567 authors
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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
— Pema Chodron
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We each have been betrayed. Let yourself picture and remember the many ways this is true. Feel the sorrow you have carried from this past.…
— Jack Kornfield
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Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.
— Jack Kornfield
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Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we are born with a divine…
— Harper Lee
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Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.
— Marie-Louise von Franz
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Oceanography is a terrific career because gradually we seem to be coming around to realize that we had better become as acquainted with the seventy…
— Peter Benchley
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Gradually, at the concerts, I began to hear calls for 'the fat girl'.... Then I would jump up for the piano stool, forgetting about my…
— Sophie Tucker
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I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased…
— Sydney Brenner
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Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products
— Niklaus Wirth
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That's what I'm gonna do: quit gradually...I'm gonna lose one lung; little while later I'm gonna lose the other one.
— Bill Hicks
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Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building blocks, but rather…
— Fritjof Capra
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As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the world in which…
— Vine Deloria, Jr.
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The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in the lives of particular creatures to an objective, world-encompassing form…
— Thomas Nagel
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People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest…
— Benjamin Tucker
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Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give…
— Rudolf Rocker
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When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The colors are stunning. In a single view, I see - looking out at the edge of the earth: red at the horizon line, blending…
— William C. McCool
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Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do your best every…
— Horatio Dresser
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Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
— Edmund Burke
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