Profound Quotes

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I just want to hear the true voices of women self-expressing - smart ones, stupid ones, ugly ones, beautiful ones, good ones, bad ones, fat… — Liz Phair
The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are. — Malcolm Gladwell
For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge. — W. Edwards Deming
She's one of those third year girls who gripe my liver... You know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year… — Gene Kelly
The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious. — George Gaylord Simpson
I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with… — William J. Clinton
Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence. — Jean Cocteau
I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought to know all… — Richard E. Berendzen
Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture… — Rene Konig
I definitely think the idea of friend zone is just men going, 'This woman won't have sex with me. — Daniel Radcliffe
When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show us… — Gaston Bachelard
It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body. — Marilyn Wann
Don't misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound… — Michele Bachmann
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means… — Aleister Crowley
When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to… — Sasha Azevedo
Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body. — Saraha
The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering… — Erich Schiffmann
In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still… — Plato
Collaboration is vital to sustain what we call profound or really deep change, because without it, organizations are just overwhelmed by the forces of the… — Peter Senge
An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness. — David Corbett
The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings. — Patricia Deegan
The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person… — Gautama Buddha
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it. — Plato
John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other things, the connections human beings… — Peter Orner
Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have - and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of… — Philip Appleman

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