Reference Quotes

431 quotes by 384 authors

The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That's… — Adyashanti
I think that in any argument about right or wrong in football, a reference to Don Revie's Leeds United is the nuclear option. There is,… — Giles Smith
Robert Spencer, a prolific anti-Islam writer and a leading Islamophobe who is bent on distorting Islam and demonizing Muslims, has persistently argued that violence and… — Louay M. Safi
Shift your frame of reference. Realise that all you see around you, Âthe reality we perceiveÂ, is a small stage upon which you act, and… — Alex Bennett
The biggest mistake was that I didn't hire all the right people. I should have done better reference checks. I should have defined the roles… — Lillian Vernon
Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with… — Viola Spolin
As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known. — William Harvey
Do we as adults have the right to make decisions about what we put in our own bodies and what we experience with our own… — Graham Hancock
For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. — William H. Gass
Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus on any particular… — Kwame Kilpatrick
To perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were… — Carl Rogers
The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and… — Carl Rogers
Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference. — Charles de Lint
We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of man; but the… — Marion Kirkland Reid
I am a Bible Christian and if an archangel with a wingspread as broad as a constellation shining like the sun were to come and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman. — Samuel Johnson
Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short. — Frank Herbert
The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of… — Lorin Maazel
What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly… — Guy Debord
In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting… — M. Scott Peck

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