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Letter "S" » seizing
«There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes --seize it, don't miss it.»
Author: Max Lucado
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«Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Opportunity
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common, extraordinary, occasioned, occasions, on occasion, opportunities, seize, seize on, seizing, wait, weak
«Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in a love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the mornings, what you will do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.»
«It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.»
«Opportunities multiply as they are seized.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
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multiplied by, multiplies, multiply, multiplying, opportunities, seized, seize on, seizing
«I think you have to deal with the confused situation that we're faced with by seizing on the glimpses and particles of life, seizing on them and holding them and trying to make a pattern of them. In other words, trying to put a world back together again out of its fragmentary moments.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
fragmentary, glimpses, in other words, seizing
«Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
Faith
| Keywords:
permitting, seized, seize on, seizing
«Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Dreams,
Indecision
| Keywords:
as if by magic, Begin, boldness, brings, can-do, days, delaying, delays, earnest, genius, indecision, in earnest, lamenting, lost, magic, minute, seize, seize on, seizing, with boldness
«Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.»
«Let anyone try to cut a thought across the middle and get a look at its section, and he will see how difficult the introspective observation. . . . is. The rush of the thought is always so headlong that it almost always brings us up at the conclusion before we can arrest it. [Introspective analysis] is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see how the darkness looks.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Almost always, analysis, arrest, cut across, gas, get a look, headlong, introspective, rush, section, sections, seizing, spinning, spinning top, The Conclusion, turn up
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