Shapes Quotations | Page 9

Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.

It’s the mind itself which shapes the body.

It is the mind that shapes the body

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

One has to always ask the question: Where can one be most effective in helping shape policies? It is always difficult when you're inside because you're very constrained.

How you frame an issue shapes how it is viewed by others. Great advocates frame their ideas as problems that need solutions.

I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.

The tusk is a very tactile shape, looks great among the other charms and is a cool piece that I like.

Hollywood is more concerned about its male actors being in shape than its female actors.

The most perfect melodic shapes are found in Mozart; he has the lightness of touch which is the true objective ... Listen to the remarkable expansion of a Mozart melody, to Cherubino's 'Voi che sapete', for instance. You think it is coming to an end, but it goes farther, even farther.

The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters

It takes six months to get into shape and two weeks to get out of shape. Once you know this you can stop being angry about other things in life and only be angry about this.

I feel like someone is pressing me into a mold that does not fit my body, forcing me intothe wrong shape.

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?

The way we describe our world shows how we think of our world. How we think of our world governs how we interpret our world. How we interpret our world directs how we participate in the world. How we participate in the world shapes the world.

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.

I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

I want to be in shape.

But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of variety. Since the shapes of art do not primarily bear witness to the objective nature of the things for which they stand, they can reflect individual interpretation and invention.

When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often true of snapshots in which no pattern of salient shapes organizes the mass of vague and complex nuances.

Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.

Help shape the stories that people are telling about you.

Decisions, they shape our destiny.

All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And theres only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.

I don't like women who are multiform, who wear many different shapes. Women who retain a unique shape are usually unique people.

I try to stay in the best physical shape that I can because I do most of my own stunts. It looks amazing if you can do it, but I dont advocate it because you always get injured.

What is shape without form; What is chaos without order; What is life without death; What is friendship without love; What isn't?

It's easier to shape a child than to repair an adult.

That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and considered, which matters in the end, not some stamp of salvation or damnation that disperses all the complexity into some unsatisfying little decision - the balancing of scales...

Resistance really takes the shape, for me, in voices in my head telling me why I can't do something or why I should put it off for another day, procrastinate for another day.

Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

A lot of us lead relatively sedentary lifestyles, so you have to motivate yourself and force yourself to go to the gym and do active things. The folks that have figured it out, found that thing that they love and made it a big part of their lives, it's easy for them to stay in shape.

My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.

Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180).

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows,” he replied firmly. “Hawks, too, are the same, whether they are born in human nests or hawk ones. The nestlings must always be protected. Since you have chosen to protect these, I and mine will protect you.

When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.

Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture.

I've got quite a curvy shape so I try to wear stuff that's tailored.

I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be...I never tried to imitate anybody, but when you love somebody's music, you're influenced...I really don't know how I developed my sound, but it comes from a combination of my musical conception and no doubt the basic shape of the oral cavity...

Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find themselves in a sort of straitjacket.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

What we name must answer to us; we can shape it if not control it.

For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.

I was relatively buff (before 'Avatar'), because I was working in a tanktop half the time on stage, anyway, but I just went kind of into hyperdrive after that and really worked to beat that old body into shape, to get that carcass where...I didn't want to be looking at it and see anything hanging where it shouldn't be hanging.

Models come in all sizes and shapes.

The choices of one shape the futures of all.

Hips are absolutely key to every shape I do, because whatever you do at the top or bottom, you want to keep it slim and narrow on the hips. One thing is for certain: No one, man or woman, wants big hips.

I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things.

What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.

As long as I'm in good shape, you'll always see me smiling.

We never shape the world . . . the world shapes us.

Let the business shape the organization, not the organization shape the business.

Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.

I'm grateful for the road. It gets me in shape. I feel like I'm 25 years old after ther first or second week.

We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision.

I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.

While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.

They're still in good shape, but I'm not flashing them anymore. I'm an old lady. I leave all the flesh to the kids.

Each person’s life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came before.

How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.

The only way for a fighter to get back in shape is to fight his way back.

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.

But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish ever more exotic surfaces, hyperboloidial and even stranger, eventually including what we must term ‘imaginary’ shapes (which some preferred to term invisible).

To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in it, he [Douglas Adams] mimed a wonderfully funny imitation of a puddle of water, fitting itself snugly into a depression in the ground, the depression uncannily being exactly the same shape as the puddle.

We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

What you believe about the future shapes, informs, and determines how you live now.

Shape your coat according to your cloth.

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

The mantra is forget your size discover your shape and transform yourself.

But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.

I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time.

The way you see your life shapes your life.

Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.

Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.

I've been all different shapes and sizes in my lifetime. I started wearing shapewear as a teenager after I did 'Australian Idol.' I had a little tummy, and I was always really quite conscious of that.

The Lord shapes the back to bear the burden placed upon it.

Die Kunst ist ewig, ihre Formen wandeln sich. (The art is eternal, their shapes are changing.)

Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart.

Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

“You don't have to be in shape to bowl. It's the only sport where there's a way to signal for a cocktail waitress.”

Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!

The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.

Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence.

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

Love had a thousand shapes.

You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.

Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight.

It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?

The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.

Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news.

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Avatar is a watershed movie. We'll always refer to Lawrence of Arabia in the same way. We'll always look at Avatar and say, "That's about as good as it gets." It's an enormous advance, in every way, shape and form, of movie making.

Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.