Opening Quotes
1144 Opening quotes by 922 unique authors
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And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even…
— Ken Wilber
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The secret principle of martial arts is not vanquishing the attacker, but resolving to avoid an encounter before its occurrence. To become an object of…
— Gichin Funakoshi
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There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.
— George Vecsey
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The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history…
— Jim Harrison
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Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something…
— Steve Carell
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and…
— Mark Nepo
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My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a house for your…
— Richard Saul Wurman
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The Kama Sutra is neither exclusively a sex manual nor, as also commonly used art, a sacred or religious work. It is certainly not a…
— Indra Sinha
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The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be retrained to be…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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A great Awakening has begun. People around the world are opening their eyes to their own spiritual natures. They are beginning to see who they…
— Betty Eadie
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If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.
— Elizabeth Lesser
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Mindfulness is an ancient meditation mode in which we let go of our fears, our attachments to control and being right, our expectations and entitlements,…
— David Richo
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When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random…
— Nancy Lublin
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By lighting a candle, you affirm that you are opening a sacred space.
— Robert Moss
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Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with.
— Heather Hart
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The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.
— Alex Grey
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God never shuts one door without opening a bigger better door. Hang in there. You are closer to success than you may think.
— Zig Ziglar
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.
— Iris Murdoch
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What I seek is a permanent opening of possibilities.
— Michel Foucault
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The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.
— John Maeda
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You ought to have seen Frédéric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already flamed, throwing it…
— Unknown Author
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I remember facing him on opening day in 1987. It was Oakland at the Minnesota Twins, the first time I got him out on a…
— Unknown Author
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No pawn exchanges, no file-opening, no attack.
— Aron Nimzowitsch
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It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in…
— Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
Who Wrote These Opening Quotes
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