Shapes Quotes
2282 Shapes quotes by 1689 unique authors
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The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the O’s roundness appeals to…
— Eric Gill
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The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a…
— David Brooks
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Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired…
— Alison Gopnik
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Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now
— Eckhart Tolle
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We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.
— Rob Bell
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
— John Ortberg
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The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.
— Mark Nepo
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I think the answer is we all need a little help, and the coffee's a little help with everything — social, energy, don't know what…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern themselves. To all who entertain such fears I will…
— Andrew Johnson
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Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing…
— Andrew Johnson
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Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give…
— Rudolf Rocker
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the…
— Yusef Komunyakaa
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I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.
— Travis Tritt
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I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.
— Oksana Baiul
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We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.
— Carly Simon
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The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.
— Mark Spitz
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We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more…
— Denis Hayes
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A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
— Ernest Shackleton
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With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear [would] dial the number. You have to detect all sorts of…
— Jonathan Ive
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To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.
— Jennifer Capriati
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I believe in eating smaller meals more often throughout the day to keep the metabolism going. Don't deprive yourself, just make better choices. At 50…
— Todd English
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I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting.…
— Elvin Jones
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[It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we…
— Shawn Achor
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper,…
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
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