Opening Quotes
1144 Opening quotes by 922 unique authors
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just…
— Gilbert Highet
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Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing.…
— Hugh Prather
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Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.
— Malcolm Forbes
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Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities…
— Peter Saville
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The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be incompetent at reversing…
— Jan Morris
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Missionary work isn't the only thing we need to do in this big, wide, wonderful Church. But almost everything else we need to do depends…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things…
— Pema Chodron
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Nature always takes you at your own valuation. Believe you are the child of God-really believe it. Believe that you express Divine Life, Divine Truth,…
— Emmet Fox
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Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening up old closets…
— Harlan Cleveland
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Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.
— Matthew Henry
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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.
— Jonathan Richman
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I'll tell you this. Leaving that which you love breaks your heart open. But you will find a jewel inside, and this precious jewel is…
— Jacqueline Winspear
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I have come to the conclusion that human beings are born with an innate capacity to triumph over trauma. I believe not only that trauma…
— Peter A. Levine
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I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
— Bob Goff
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The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences, and ideas dragged together out of…
— John Amos Comenius
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You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it…
— Clifford Geertz
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People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they are…
— Kenny Smith
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One of the objectives of opening play is to try to surprise your opponent.
— Edmar Mednis
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Psychologically, the choice of an appropriate opening is of the utmost importance for a player's success in a tournament.
— Savielly Tartakower
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The Yoga of the Dream State has always held to be one of the fastest, most efficient ways of reaching a plateau experience of subtle…
— Ken Wilber
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We may tell ourselves that love is not really available. but the deeper truth is that we don't entirely trust it, and therefore have a…
— John Welwood
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To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront…
— Wendell Willkie
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The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities…
— John Vianney
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