Shapes Quotations | Page 7

And in reaching out and doing these new things you get into this strange kind of shape where you are better off than if you were just resting, because you're using things that wouldn't otherwise be mute.

From my perspective as a depth psychologist, I see that those who have a connection with story are in better shape and have better prognosis than those to whom story must be introduced.

In the 80s I started running, staying in shape.

You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know.

I think that by staying out of shape at the age of 33 I'm doing myself a huge favor for my future. There will never be anyone commenting on how I've 'let myself go.' I've gone. It's gone. It's not going, it's GONE.

Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.

We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us -- its size, motion and meaning.

How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.

You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.

Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard...you've never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe...

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.

There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.

The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society. ...What am I doing to shape the values of the society?

We should bear the intelligence and taste of the architect or the gardener in how we shape the becoming of our self. Too much precision ("stringency") is simply misplaced, a formalism inappropriate to the kind of matter we have to deal with (and to be).

Ive always been into bodybuilding and keeping in shape, and I just challenge myself to see if I can continue to make improvements.

It's not a sprint to get in shape.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

I also discovered Pilates when I got pregnant, as people kept saying it's a great way to stay in shape, and now I can't get enough - it's amazing. It helps with aches and pain and, even for non-pregnant people, it's a great way of getting those lean muscles.

Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again.

But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.

Stadiums fill up with people to see what's going to happen between the lines. But life isn't only about visible realities. There are invisible and unseen nuances...things that shape us into who we are.

First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us

A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.

The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.

Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence.

Angels come in many shapes and sizes, and most of them are not invisible.

These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.

Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.

I try to stay in decent shape always. I pride myself on staying at least a month away from really good shape.

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.

In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.

Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

It takes a lot out of you to do a stage play, but I'd love to do that. I'd love to continue to do challenging material, whatever shape or form that comes in.

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

I'm in great shape considering I have hardware in my back. I work out constantly to keep my muscles limber and my abs strong so they can take the burnt of everything.

Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself.

Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future.

The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.

The future is the shape of things to come.

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

The object of art is to give life shape.

Psychologically speaking, it's very important to be in good shape. I work in a sport that requires you to react quickly and be in excellent shape. Besides, things don't get easier as you get older.

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life.

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

Here. Where I am anonymous and alone in a white room with no history and no parading. So I can make something unknown in the shape of this room. Where I am King of Corners.

Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?

It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things.

Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others

If I want to achieve the goals I've set, I've got to be in tip-top shape.

I am not a playwright. A playwright would take Antigone and hit it a few clouts and knock it out of shape and restructure it. My versioning was strictly verbal.

I like to keep myself in shape. I run and do weights when I go to the gym.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.

If you want to get in shape, go to the #‎ gym every single day, change your clothes and take a shower. If you can do that every single day for a month, pretty soon you'll start doing something while you're there...

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

My soul is in good shape.

A relationship ends because you've outgrown it. It can begin again because you, as two, can fill the new shape.

I'm not an exhibitionist in any way, shape or form. I don't even like having my picture taken!

The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.

I am not me but the living matter fermenting and forming it's own shape in the fruitfulness of everyday

He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.

I've always worked out. I've always gone to the gym. But it was always a chore, and it was always, like, 'Man, I've gotta go do this because if I don't I'll get all dumpy and out of shape and then no one will hire me for good roles.

It's an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.

Your faith shapes the kind of person that you are.

Our lips are full of praise, but our hearts are far removed from the prophets we all claim. That's why the world is in the shape that it's in.

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geometric shapes can affect matter around them. It's simply because when a human looks at a shape, they instantly receive energy from their brain.

The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.

You have to be disciplined because if you lose your discipline and lose your shape, we're playing against better players, so they'll take advantage.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

I try to visualize geometric shapes and patterns slowly spinning and expanding into infinity.

Rule of criticism: only attend to the shape, and the purpose will manifest itself.

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.

My wife and I never agree on the dishtowels. It's a matter of terms. She asks me not to put the dishtowel in the sink. So I drape it over the sink, but not in the sink. If that's our biggest problem, I think we're in good shape.

The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

I don't know why people get so bent out of shape over stuff people say.

I just want the songs to have the staying power as my favorite songs. If you listen to any Hank Williams song, when you're in a good mood, it's going to put you in a better mood. If you happen to be bummed-out, you're going to feel maybe a little more bummed-out and better at the same time. At any time in my life, his music has had meaning and value to me. If a song can shape-shift in that way, that's a sign of success.

How you define a problem shapes how you address it.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

A god's relationship to the world, even a world in which he was walking, was about as emotionally connected as that of a computer gamer playing with knowledge of the overall shape of the game and armed with a complete set of cheat codes.

Dreams shape the world

Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?

Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.

Once I knew that I wanted to be an artist, I had made myself into one. I did not understand that wanting doesn't always lead to action. Many of the women had been raised without the sense that they could mold and shape their own lives, and so, wanting to be an artist (but without the ability to realize their wants) was, for some of them, only an idle fantasy, like wanting to go to the moon.

I think we all waste a lot of time measuring ourselves up against impossible standards in lots of ways. We need to learn a few things, one of which being that physical beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, including a lot that the women's magazines have never even thought of.

Femininity for me means happiness and freedom...freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.

I've come to learn that theology matters. It matters not because we want to impress people, but because what we know about God shapes the way we think and live. Theology matters because if we get it wrong then our whole life will be wrong.