Grasps Quotes

46 quotes by 42 authors

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held… — Arnold Bennett
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and… — Barry Lopez
The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes… — Dale Carnegie
Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur… — Horace Mann
An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture, focuses on one… — Ken Wyatt
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep. — Zhuangzi
The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped. — Eric Metaxas
Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so… — Charles Spurgeon
What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise. — William James
One of the things that's happening to a lot of us is that there's this vision of the beauty of God that transports us and… — Brian D. McLaren
When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and… — Jack Kornfield
Perhaps my early problems with dyslexia made me more intuitive: when someone sends me a written proposal, rather than dwelling on detailed facts and figures… — Richard Branson
He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip. — Laozi
Do not be lazy. Run each day's race with all your might, so that at the end you will receive the victory wreath from God.… — Basilea Schlink
Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion,… — Plato
The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own… — Marshall McLuhan
The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he… — Plato
Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes… — Zhuangzi
The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we… — Marcel Proust

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