Events Quotes - Page 8

Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.

The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the human event.

Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.

When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.

It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on specific occasions, or both all the time.

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

Headlines twice the size of the events.

I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.

The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.

Fear wants us to become obsessed with some event or person in the future, a year, a month, even a day. It also wants us to look backwards not at our successes, but our short-comings and our failures. Fear losses it's grip when we stay in the now.

No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed.

Meanings come not from events themselves, but from what we bring to them.

The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the momentous question whether you possess the power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union

To remember a successful salad is generally to remember a successful dinner; at all events, the perfect dinner necessarily includes the perfect salad.

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.

In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.

Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads.

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

Failure is an event, not a person. You are NOT a failure!