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«If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two week's vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our bu»
«He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.»
Author: Jack Kroll
| About:
Art,
Language,
Nature
| Keywords:
boundaries, inexplicable, leaps, nervous, startle, startled, systems, transmits
«I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.»
Author: Marcel Marceau
(Mime Artist)
| Keywords:
anguish, backgrounds, black light, designed, drawings, gleams, ink, labyrinth, labyrinths, My Style, pantomime, pantomimes, shed, shed light on, startled, thread
«Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they were endangered, if they are disturbed or dropped suddenly, startled by loud noises, flashing light, or»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Adulthood,
Fashion
| Keywords:
disturbed, dropped, endangered, flashing, infants, loud noise, react, startled, threatened
«Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
abruptly, cries, immersion, poorer, startled, uproar
«A startled or surprised look from one of you when I spoke sharply rebuked me more than any words could have done, and the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.»
«A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.»
«A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.»
«Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.»
Author: Robert Collier
| Keywords:
aid, aided, aiding, assistance, battle, battled, Battle of the, battling, Begin, come, come to, essential, first, first step, first steps, forces, in force, ITS, mobilize, mobilized, mobilizes, mobilizing, once, startle, startled, step, step up, take, that is, The Battle, the first, within
«The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Originality,
World
| Keywords:
in general, originality, reaction, startle, startled
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