“ My only sketch, profile, of heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June — and in it are my friends — every one of them. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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“ Today we define success by publicity and bank accounts. But that's not really success at all. Don't believe the hype. Success is ephemeral. You have to define it yourself. ”
- Chris Noth- Copy
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“ I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself. ”
- Colin Farrell- Copy
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“ As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ I've had contour wraps and massages in places I didn't know I had. ”
- Shirley MacLaine- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 1.6K
“ No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't. ”
- Stephen King- Copy
- 950
“ Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research. ”
- Colleen McCullough- Copy
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“ Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ”
- Daniel Burnham- Copy
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“ The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. ”
- Jim Bishop- Copy
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“ All your life you live so close to truth it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it's like being ambushed by a grotesque. ”
- Tom Stoppard- Copy
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“ Words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate. ”
- Vince Lombardi- Copy
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“ Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. ”
- Elwyn Brooks White- Copy
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“ Failure is God's own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children. ”
- Thomas Hodgkin- Copy
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“ It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change. ”
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette- Copy
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“ The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ It is easy thus to outline a few external characteristics of the seminary, but difficult to picture its inner life. ”
- Herbert Baxter Adams- Copy
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“ There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. ”
- Josephine Hart- Copy
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“ When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. ”
- Wayne Dyer- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 3.1K
“ She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short. ”
- Clive James- Copy
- 3K
“ Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 914
“ Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. ”
- Sydney J. Harris- Copy
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“ All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. ”
- Earl Nightingale- Copy
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