THIS EDITION: point
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~Ed Note
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Quoted In The Grove:
The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.
~John Millington Synge (Irish playwright/poet)
In Chinese culture, it wouldn’t occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it’s the parents who need to be taught a life lesson ‒ by their children.
~Amy Chua
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
~Lionel Trilling
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‘I’ is the word everyone uses to refer to themselves. On the one hand, it points to a specific person, but it’s also this blank space that you can insert yourself into; it’s a chute into empathy.
~Alexandra Kleeman
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My first sales assessment, they tell you your strong points, and they told me I was the emotional salesman, the one who could really connect with people by making them feel comfortable. Once someone told me that, I couldn’t get past how manipulative it made me feel.
~Katie Nolan
Certainly one is brought to the brink of one’s sense of who one is, what one has to do, why me, why now, why in this time in history? I am really driven, believe it or not, am awakened by a sense of being in this powerful axis, this turning point in human history.
~Jean Houston (1937-2026)
There comes a point in life when you realize everything you know about yourself, it’s all just conditioning. It’s the rare man who truly know who he is.
~Brian Buckner
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It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.
~Francoise Sagan
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Speech is not violence. The Left conflates the two in order to justify its own violent reactions to differing points of view.
~Michael J Knowles
Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective.
~Gretchen Rubin
Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That’s an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don’t want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you’d rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
~Ed Sheeran
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We’re all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.
~Smokey Robinson
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The car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points.
~Fritz Todt (engineer, died of plane crash)
It’s not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities.
~Kristin Armstrong
My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
~Pierre Trudeau (former Prime Minister, Canada)
PostScript:
Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.
~George Eliot
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Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason. It is a grasp on reality that does not need constant high points in order to be maintained, nor is it made vulnerable by the low points of life’s struggle.
~Ravi Zacharias
Everyone values things differently. In other words, they place their own value on everything that affects their lives. Also from moment to moment they may even change their values. Such as a person, who values diamonds above all else, might be willing to trade a gallon of diamonds for a drink of water to save his life in a desert. What this means is value is a relative thing depending on a need or a perceived need. Yet, how many people will argue and even violently fight over the perceived value of something or some idea only later have an entirely different view point or value.
~Sidney Madwed
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
~William James
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What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.
~Hilary Mantel
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Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.
~Deborah Day
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
~Napoleon Hill
How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling… Maybe it was an abstract idea that you’ve got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole.
~Emily Carr
PostScript:
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.
~Napoleon Hill
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Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can choose, he can err; since he can err, he can suffer. I go further: He must err and he must suffer; for his starting point is ignorance, and in his ignorance he sees before him an infinite number of unknown roads, all of which save one lead to… error.
~Frederic Bastiat
Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.
~Jonathan Tropper (writer)
The turning point really is just knowing you’re an imbecile.
~Warren Cuccurullo (of Duran Duran)
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Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.
~Dean Koontz
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I have insecurities of course, but I don’t hang out with anyone who points them out to me.
~Adele
The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us up and take us forward, and good friends will do just that.
~Brian Houston
I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there’s been points in my life when they weren’t around, and it’s a real sort of miserable existence.
~John Frusciante (friend of River Phoenix who OD’d)
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An old friend is like a tender memory or a comfortable shoe. It takes years of caring to get to that point.
~Laura Moncur
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You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 ‒1882)
If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me ‒ I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (priest/scientist, 1881‒1955)
No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one’s back.
~Meg Cabot (novelist)
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
~C S Lewis (1898 ‒1963)
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There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
~G K Chesterton (1874 ‒1936)
We’ve gotten to the point where everybody’s got a right and nobody’s got a responsibility.
~Newton Minow (Chairman, FCC)
Our points of reference in America aren’t steeped in literature; they’re steeped in that five minutes between commercials.
~Clarke Peters (actor/writer)
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Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles. We’ve all worked with that person. That person is a drag.
~Tina Fey
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The crucible is a dividing line, a turning point, and those who have gone through it feel they are very different from the way they were before. Believing that they have been transformed or have transformed themselves, those who survive the crucible (and many don’t) are more confident, more willing to take future risks. That new self-confidence is grounded in the belief that he or she has done something hard and done it well.
~Warren G Bennis
Don’t let your present problems defeat you. The Chinese have a saying that if you live with a disaster for three years it will turn into a blessing. Look back in your own life at what appeared to be a devastating situation five or ten years ago. Many of those situations were the turning point that caused a number of great things to happen in your future. Regardless of what happens today, realize it is the beginning of something good.
~Bob Proctor
There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if – as the poet Rumi put it ‒ everything is rigged in our favor.
~Arianna Huffington
PostScript: Make your breaking point your turning point.
~Dennis Kimbro
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
~Samuel Beckett
The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?
~Louise Bogan
Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem, Church’s Undecidability Theorem, Turing’s Halting Problem, Turski’s Truth Theorem— all have the flavour of some ancient fairy tale which warns you that “To seek self-knowledge is to embark on a journey which . . . will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described.”
~Douglas R Hofstadter
PostScript:
It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.
~H M Tomlinson
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Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking a point of view that enables us to see the principles, ideas and things in right relation to each other.
~William D Hoard (publisher, former Gov, WI)
The past record of man is burdened with accounts of assasinations, secret combines, palace plots and betrayals in war. But in spite of this clear record, an amazing number of people have begun to scoff at the possibility of conspiracy at work today. They dismiss such an idea merely a conspiratorial point of view.
~G Edward Griffin (author)
I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.
~Marion Cotillard (actor)
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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
~John Locke (philosopher)
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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.
~Louis A Allen
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action ‒ the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
~Eric Hoffer
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
~Lyndon B Johnson #36 (re: civil rights march, Selma to Montgomery)
PostScript:
There are surprising turning points; there is the straw that breaks the camel’s back, and you never know if your action could be the straw.
~Frances Moore Lappé
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The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the emergence of fashion trends, the ebb and flow of crime waves, or, for that matter, the transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth, or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.
~Malcolm Gladwell
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.
~Malcolm Gladwell
Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push ‒ in just the right place ‒ it can be tipped.
~Malcolm Gladwell
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A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.
~Andy Stanley
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If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?
~Adam Schiff (Sen, CA)
Possession is eleven points in the law.
~Colley Cibber (1671‒1757)
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.
~James 2:10
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Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
~Blaise Pascal
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For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.
~Tammy Bruce (Deputy Rep to UN)
Corrupt fantasy points us, or forms us, in a consciousness that can lead to thinking that evil is good and good is evil. In the worst case, this may have long range effects, prompting the reader intuitively, subconsciously, to do evil while thinking they’re doing good.
~Michael O’Brien (worship singer)
I think the best villains are ones that you can look at and say, ‘Yeah, he’s obviously going about this the wrong way or going too far or whatever, but I can see where he’s coming from.’ Magneto’s a great example of that, and the reason he and Charles Xavier can have such great conversations is that they can both make some good points.
~Ryan North (comic writer)
PostScript:
Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.
~Horace
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We are at a turning point in human history. . . . We could turn our attention to the problems that going to the Moon certainly will not solve … But I think this would be fatal to our future. . . . A society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die.
~Margaret Mead
People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values.
~Grace Lee Boggs
The turning point in history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only god of man is man himself.
~Henri de Lubac
PostScript:
As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.
~Michael J Fox
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I have hitherto followed the lines marked out by the Theist in his attempt to prove that there exists a mind behind natural phenomena, and that the universe as we have it is, at least generally, an evidence of a plan designed by this mind. I have also pointed out that the only datum for such a conclusion is the universe we know. We must take that as a starting point. We can get neither behind it nor beyond it. We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.
~Chapman Cohen (atheist, writer)
I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival
~T S Eliot (another writer)
I am not talking to you from the point of view of just wishful thinking, or imaginary craziness. I’m talking to you from a deeper basic understanding ‒ quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery, it says that you can’t have a universe without mind entering into it, the mind is actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived.
~Fred Alan Wolf (theoretical physicist)
PostScript:
I’ve never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view… If you’re involved with imagination and the creative process, it’s not such a difficult thing to believe in a god. But I’m not involved in any religions.
~Nick Cave (musician)
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Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until you have given it your very best. Cultivate the habits of discipline and toleration. Surrender not the convictions you hold dear but learn to appreciate the points of view of your opponents.
~Syama Prasad Mukherjee
Be systematically heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty, so that, when the hour of need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved or untrained to stand the test.
~Daniel Akst
This is a beautiful and full time to be alive. We are at a turning point, and your contribution to the world is needed more than ever. All of your struggles, all the struggles of your ancestors, all the struggles of all life have led to this moment right now. You are the culmination of life’s great yearning; you are the hope of the world.
~Ilchi Lee (S Korean)
PostScript:
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
~Theodore Roosevelt #26
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Next Exercise Prompt: mind
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Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown supe rficial and external.
~Louise Guiney
The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.
~Amanda Cross
It is also naïve empiricism to provide, in support of some argument, series of eloquent confirmatory quotes by dead authorities. By searching, you can always find someone who made a well-sounding statement that confirms your point of view—and, on every topic, it is possible to find another dead thinker who said the exact opposite.
~Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Humor is a rubber sword ‒ it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
~Mary Hirsch
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
~Isaac Newton
Don’t confuse being ‘soft’ with seeing the other guy’s point of view.
~George Bush
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The dark energy is not exactly zero, but the first 122 decimal points are zero. That’s crazy. That is really one of the craziest things we’ve ever discovered.
~Leonard Susskind
I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.
~Daniel Tammet
I always knew I was going somewhere ‒ going out. I just knew. I just knew. I just knew there were a lot more points of view out there.
~Brad Pitt (hometown: Springfield, MO)
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God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
~Alfred Jarry (1873 ‒1907)
For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.
~Blaise Pascal (1623 ‒1662)
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
~Bertrand Russell (1872 ‒1970)
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It’s hard to get lost if you don’t know where you’re going.
~Jim Jarmusch
If you don’t know where you’re going any road will do
~Lewis Carroll
If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
~Yogi Berra
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Before emphasizing what I believe, perhaps I should point out what I do not believe, or what I no longer believe: I no longer believe in the magic of the spoken word. It signifies not order but disorder. It does not eliminate chaos, it only conceals it. It no longer carries men’s hopes but distorts them. It has ceased to be a vehicle, only to become an obstacle. It does not signify sharing but compromise.
~Elie Weisel (1928 ‒ 2016)
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
~Jean Rostand (1894 ‒1977)
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
~Albert Einstein (1879 ‒1955)
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Turning points in my life… the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls… moving camp from one wonderful lake to another… the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line.
~Arthur Lismer
There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.
~Richard Dawkins
I don’t know lots of things but I know this: next year when spring flows over the starting point I’ll think I’m going to drown in the shimmering miles of it
~Mary Oliver
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We find personal success and great, if not enduring, influence on the outer fashioning of the world allotted to the violent, the passionate individual who, unchaining the elemental principles of human impulse under favoring circumstances, points out to greed and self-indulgence the speedy pathways to their satisfaction.
~Richard Wagner
Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.
~William Adams
People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That’s how people steal effectively.
~Margot Robbie
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We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky… I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.
~George H W Bush
Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.
~Adrian Cronauer (his story the basis for Good Morning, Vietnam)
The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.
~Giorgio Napolitano
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A long time ago, I watched President Reagan repeat a few simple points about the benefits for everyone of lower taxes, light regulations, and limited government. Successful policies are sold by repetition, not unrelated tangents.
~Lawrence Kudlow
No one can remember more than three points.
~Phil Crosby
I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.
~Annette Bening
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As I looked about the world, so much of it impoverished, I became increasingly uncomfortable about having so much while my brothers and sisters were starving. Finally I had to find another way. The turning point came when, in desperation and out of a very deep seeking for a meaningful way of life, I walked all one night through the woods. I came to a moonlit glade and prayed.
~Peace Pilgrim
In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn’t quite know what to do about it. At a certain point, I felt God is not looking for alms. God is looking for action.
~Bono
Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.
~Mahatma Gandhi
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
~W Clement Stone
Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.
~Denis Waitley
Strain every nerve to gain your point.
~Cicero
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Completely desist from defending your point of view. When you have no point to defend, you do not allow the birth of an argument. If you do this consistently ‒ if you stop fighting and resisting ‒ you will fully experience the present, which is a gift. Someone once told me, “The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called ‘the present’.”
~Deepak Chopra
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor’s point of view.
~Robert Frost
Emptiness the starting point… In order to taste your cup of water, you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all of your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty”
~Bruce Lee
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Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope.
~Robert Veninga
Where I am today is my starting point. Who I am today is my starting point. My failures and successes of the past, my fears and hopes of the future are all shadows. Today is my reality, and I’ll use it to create my world.
~Taylor Stevens
Hope is not a resting place but a starting point ‒ a cactus, not a cushion.
~H Jackson Brown Jr
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
~Victor Hugo
The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.
~Rudolf Arnheim
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose ‒ a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. …The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
~Frank Herbert
Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.
~Denis de Rougemont
I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realise that’s what myths are for. It’s for human beings to process their experience in extremis.
~Michael Sheen
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The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est [Man is a god to man] ‒ this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world’s History.
~Ludwig Feuerbach
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn’t make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting ‒ the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.
~Saul Bellow
… unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.
~Saul Bellow
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I love Rauschenberg [multi-media artist]. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, ‘the ability to conceive failure as progress.’
~Jerry Saltz
Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
~John Keats
One shouldn’t ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.
~Orson Welles
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone’s IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
~Rachel Johnson
That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: “I can’t understand this, what’s wrong with me?” An American says: “I can’t understand this, what’s wrong with him?”
~Terry Pratchett
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
~Rachel Johnson
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The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
~Alexander Graham Bell
We don’t have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for large-scale, upstream change. We can initiate change right now. There are endless starting points.
~Arianna Huffington
The starting point is always now. The end is up to you.
~Ron Kaufman
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Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.
~Austin O’Malley (soccer)
I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that there’s no such thing as evil; it’s all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he’s a hero.
~Eli Roth (director/writer)
I’m a huge believer in learning anything from multiple points of view.
~Bing Gordon (business exec)
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I’m tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It’s kind of pointless you know. Because if the Devil did exist, he’d be worshipping me, because I’m more successful than he is.
~Marilyn Manson
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is not that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.
~Robert Solow
That’s really my goal, is just to be a kind person who knows how to speak their mind and get their points across.
~Cailee Spaeny
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Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I’ll win a battle… Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I’ll win a war.
~George S Patton
Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.
~Omar N Bradley
Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.
~Dwight D Eisenhower
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I have followed my heart my whole life ‒ the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I’ve been in trouble in points in my career.
~Sarah Carter (actor/writer)
I’ve always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.
~Catherine Deneuve (actor)
The only thing we get for free in life is our existence. How we spend our life points is the most precious question of all.
~Bryan Johnson (entrepreneur)
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Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
~George Bernard Shaw (1856 ‒1950)
This is a tough business, and you’re asked to do a job. And part of doing that job is to rate and to do well and to perform, and at certain points, when people are unable to do the job they’re hired to do, what happens is people are let go. Their contract is not renewed.
~Kimberly Guilfoyle (ex-ambassador, Greece, on firing others in her dept)
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
~Aesop
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If you are a parent, the horoscope will aid you to detect the evil latent in your child and teach you how to apply the ounce of prevention. It will show you the good points also, that you may make a better man or woman of the soul entrusted to your care.
~Max Heindel (Rosicrucian/astrologer, 1865‒1919)
In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.
~Gautama Buddha
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
~Marshall McLuhan (futurist)
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On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
~Virginia Woolf
I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, ‘Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn’t, then there’s a point to it.’
~Harry Nilsson
As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn’t see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.
~Neil Young
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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes
Whether you are liberal or conservative, people seem to know the talking points for whatever the issue of the day is. Very rarely does it seem like these are opinions that people are coming up with themselves; it’s like they watched the right cable news channel, and now they know what they are supposed to think, and they repeat that.
~Shane Carruth
I really am opinionated, but not for long. I have found myself coming off of what I think of something because the guy I’m talking to makes better sense than I am. I have so many points of view, I can’t keep track of ’em, because I talk to too many people.
~Jerry Lewis
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If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
~Dale Carnegie
How sweet is that? I know I’m no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I have to say that assuming that a person will have forgotten your name is way high on my “indicators of humbleness” list (not that I have one, but I totally have a starting point now).
~Ally Carter
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Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety; it is the goal, not the starting point.
~Maurice Saatchi
The starting point is a question.
~Alberto Manguel
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
Victoria Moran
There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.
~Sun Myung Moon
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people’s points of view ‒ these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can’t allow them to delude us to the point where we can’t recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
~Sam Harris
Art points to things. It’s a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.
~Glenn Ligon
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I pay higher premiums because my speeding points spell ‘recklessness’ to the insurance company, but you can’t imagine how risk-averse I am at the wheel. I only go over 30 at all because it’s dangerous to drive too much slower than everyone else.
~Victoria Coren Mitchell (writer, presenter, poker player)
Let’s just say I don’t have any points on my licence, and I drive quickly sometimes.
~Keith Barry (Irish menatlist/hypnotist)
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I could never think well of a man’s intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
~Nathaniel Emmons (scholarly minister, 1745 ‒1840)
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
~C S Lewis (1898 ‒1963)
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‘The ruckus’ is different experiences you go through throughout your life which builds your ruckus points up ‒ your tolerance. You’ve got to have a high tolerance for dealing with stuff all the time.
~J B Smoove (comic/actor)
I believe I am strong mentally. My breaking points might be bigger than most players. I think it’s because of the way I grew up with my two older brothers. They pushed my limits quite often ‒ once every day, I think! I think that played a big role in my breaking point being bigger than most players. Not all players.
~AB de Villiers (cricket)
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I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.
~Rachel Hunter (model/actor, 1968 ‒ )
He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he recognized causes; for to recognize causes, it seemed to him, is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.
~Hermann Hesse (1877‒1962)
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Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.
~Mike Quigley
If you don’t know where you are, a map won’t help.
~Watts Humphrey
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The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
~Archimedes
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
~Leo Aikman
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Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity.
~Yoko Ono
The world is round; it has no point.
~Adrienne E Gusoff
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Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.
~Anne Rice (re: vampires)
Once you have accepted yourself, it’s so much easier to accept other people and their points of view.
~Zig Ziglar
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From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.
~Janet Frame
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.
~James Branch Cabell
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
~Walter Scott
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
~Florence Scovel Shinn
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We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return… The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation… the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.
~Arthur C Clarke
The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.
~Chuck Palahniuk
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I remember once Manchester United were ahead of Manchester City by eight points and ended up losing it, so everything is possible in this life.
~Henrikh Mkhitaryan
I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like thanking for the help from the Almighty to hit the home run. And as he does that, I say to myself, ‘God screwed the pitcher.’ And I don’t know how else you look at it.
~Bobby Knight
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When I think about where most of Scripture points me, it is toward defending the poor, and the immigrant, and the stranger, and the prisoner, and the outcast, and those who are left behind by the way society works.
~Pete Buttigieg
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
~Arthur Koestler
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In football, you are mostly reacting from a defensive point of view…but you always want to be counterattacking…a similarity with chess strategy. Chess and offensive football are quite similar; you sacrifice something now to get something back later.
~Barney Chavous
I think the important point is the turning point in combining offense and defense in a reasonable way.
~Fred Ikle (sociologist on military defense)
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At various points, I’ve had a massive chip on me shoulder. I had fights about me accent with loads of those fellers you get from third-class public schools. They used to think I was speaking German.
~Sid Waddell (Darts sports commentator)
When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you.
~Author Unknown
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As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points.
~Calamity Jane
The whole point in bein’ a hero is to do somethin’ greater than yerself. It’d be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We’re bigger men than that.
~Alexander Woo (in True Blood)
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The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
~Thomas Carlyle
He was at a starting point which makes many a man’s career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .
~George Eliot
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Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself ‒ be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
~Viktor E Frankl
It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person ‒ because as soon as we look in one another’s faces we can see the other point of view.
~Colin Wilson
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I believe I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I’ve found that just surviving is a noble fight. I once believed in causes too; I had my pointless points of view. And life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
~Billy Joel
A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man’s life.
~Curt Siodmak (writer)
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The Olio’s Quote Harvest
https://azquotes.com, https://brainyquote.com, https://dailypnut.com, https://goodreads.com
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Fun Tarts: https://gocomics.com
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The Salmagundi’s Video Harvest
https://vevo.com, https://vimeo.com, https://youtube.com
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