Shapes Quotations | Page 6

The shape of your character is the shape of your future.

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.

It can be... difficult to to learn how the world truly is, to see it in its true shape and form... most human beings never do. Most could not bear it.

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

An unexpected twist of a shoulder that comes out on one side and doesn't on the other side, folding a fabric to create interesting shapes on the body -- they're very sensual clothes.

The broadband difference is now permeating the news environment. High-powered Internet users are heavily into other media sources as well, but the pre-eminent place of online news suggests that it shapes their off-line information choices in an important way.

The Classic shapes up to be even more competitive than last year. Hall, Mills and Central will feature some of the best players from Pulaski County.

The end of the series has massive ramifications. This is one of those things that comes along that shapes things for times to come. ... There's very much a pre-Civil War and post-Civil War Marvel Universe coming at you.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul, he inspects it, he puts it to the test, he learns it. As soon as he has learned it, he must cultivate it! I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet becomes a seer through a long, immense, and reasoned derangement of all the senses. All shapes of love suffering, madness. He searches himself, he exhausts all poisons in himself, to keep only the quintessences. Ineffable torture where he needs all his faith, all his superhuman strength, where he becomes among all men the great patient, the great criminal, the great accursed one--and the supreme Scholar! For he reaches the unknown! ....So the poet is actually a thief of Fire!

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives

I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

How you shape your attitude is not a small part of how you shape your life...it is the only part.

Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.

We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances we put on, are in truth but so many different attempts to gratify the same governing appetite.

The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.

...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with...

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

I love soul music, that's my real love in life and in whatever shape or form it is.

We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.

Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the molds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

The iPhone brand is in worse shape than I thought was even possible. And the implications of that are huge. ... The iPhone is in deep trouble.

The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism.

Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape from starvation. People just aren't that cruel.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

My body shape was made to get into the perfect aerodynamic position.

You should not think that you can shape history only by your will. This is also why I'm against the concept of intervention when you don't know its ultimate implications.

We did not purify [isolate] ... We saw some particles but they did not have the morphology [shape] typical of retroviruses ... They were very different ... What we did not have, as I have always recognized it, is that it was truly the cause of AIDS.

There are three things I commit to on a daily basis: Exercising for an hour a day, tops. Never skipping meals. And accepting the size and shape I was born with.

I love the shape of cars. They are very inspiring as modern pieces of machinery. I can't drive, but I do like the look of them.

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.

London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.

The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.

The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from out - and on the shapes that are created by it.

Without my Vulcan cat suit, Frankenstein wig and pointed ears, I don't get recognized. I love the fact I'm a shape shifter who can go unnoticed.

It sometimes feels like the workplace is immune from social upheaval. We go to work and do the best we can, and at the end of the day, we return to our lives. We don't abandon who we are, however, when we begin and end our workday. Who we are shapes how we are perceived in the workplace and, in turn, how we perform in the workplace.

It's an interesting example of the way war shapes a culture.

Its all shapes and sizes and ages of people who, for some reason, think theyre shaking their fist at the oil-producing people, but it actually hurts us quite a bit,

Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.

That is a big and complex code. If you take problems like finding the optimal shape for common automotive and aircraft structures, you have to somehow find the shape that has the least weight but at the same time won't break. We call that process shape optimization or topology optimization. These shapes have holes in them for bolting them in place or to reduce their weight. You have to decide whether to have one hole or two holes or 10 holes in a part, exactly where to put those holes and how to shape the holes.

Cars come in all shapes and sizes.. I'll be the judge of this thing..

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning ...

When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at you when you say something funny. You wonder if they're looking at you because they're mad that they didn't say it or something. It's hard to handle that.

I've decided to get into shape, and the shape I've selected is a triangle.

TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with 'Oh that's a great idea. I love it.' Everything's possible and then you face 'Oh, we can't do that, and that's impossible, and that's a bad choice.' You go the practicality of it. And then you come up to 'Great.' But that middle part is when you don't have results yet.

I'm in shape, but only if you consider a circle a shape.

To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.

What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into ourselves help to shape us.

Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness.

I don't understand how women can manage to get back in shape with a new baby and a job.

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.

Values can't just be words on a page. To be effective, they must shape action.

You have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you're the one with the problem!'

Getting back into shape [after bringing twing] was challenging, like it is for anybody who has a baby. The first few pounds drop off really fast. And then you're like stuck with those last 10 to 20 pounds, let's say, and then you've really got to get disciplined.

Who cares and who doesn't care about a project, is going to shape the project in a significant way.

Well my chocolate is so good I could sell it in an obnoxious prism shape.

You know how many stunning women told me they can't stand a good-looking man? ... Women feel secure with an ugly guy because a man in bad shape isn't gonna cheat.

I like my body when I have curves. We all come indifferent shapes and sizes, and this is something to celebrate.

We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.

As you get older, it gets harder to get rid of that belly but I do a lot of cardio to try to stay in shape.

If you listen to the real in you, that part that's pulsing and has questions and is trying to figure something out, it will shape your life in a way where, when you get to be sixty, you'll succeed. You'll be happy about your life.

There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.

Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.

I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back of my mind.

The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is.

Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

I love to do films of all shapes and sizes and feelings and genres. So for me to go from Tomb Raider straight into Dear Frankie, there's nothing that excites me more than to keep mixing it up.

All our yesterdays are summarized in our now, and all the tomorrows are ours to shape.

Through its interpretation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court hugely shapes the fabric of our society for us and for future generations.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

I tell you, the economy is in bad shape. In fact, the economy is so bad, President Barack Obama's new slogan is 'Spare Change You Can Believe In.'

Don't let your dreams escape / The future's ours to shape

Running is a quick trigger for a good mood. The great thing about endorphins, you don't have to be in great shape to get them.

HOUSE RULES [at the Praetor Lupus Headquarters] No shape-shifting in the hallways. No howling. No silver. Clothing must be worn at all times. ALL TIMES. No fighting. No biting. Mark all your food before you put it in the communal refrigerator.

The course of business shapes public opinion.

We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided me the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life.

I just stay fit and in shape.

Being fit and being in the best shape that I can be helps me be the best mom as well.

Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice