Grasps Quotes
46 quotes by 42 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
— Zhuangzi
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The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped.
— Eric Metaxas
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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
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What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.
— William James
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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
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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
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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
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He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.
— Laozi
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Grasps Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 46 Grasps Quotes, led by these top contributors: