Arriving Quotes

Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

There is no question of going anywhere, arriving anywhere, or doing anything; you are there already.

Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.

Focus on the journey, not on arriving at a certain destination.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany.

I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.

When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

A cooperative enterprise is the key alternative to a traditional capitalist enterprise. All the workers, whatever they do inside an enterprise, have to be able to participate in collectively arriving at the decisions about what, how, where to produce, and what to do with the profits in a democratic way. One person, one vote should decide how these things are done.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.

One can't realize difficulty arriving at a momentous decision until one comes to do so.

Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock's proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment.

I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

Arriving there is what you are destined for

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.

The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch steps, felt absolutely certain that some wonderful change was arriving in her life. The strength of this belief was puzzling; what she was feeling, she decided, was really the presence of God.

With all due respect to UPS - it's a fine company - nobody cares about logistics. They care about that package arriving at their home, at their office, when it is supposed to and in the condition it's supposed to. FedEx is a much better communicator than UPS.

Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life.

We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.

Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.

The audience should feel they are hearing the future, that is arriving just on time.

The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain goal, I remind myself to 'Enjoy now'. If I can enjoy the present, I don't need to count on the happiness that is (or isn't) waiting for me in the future".

Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts

If you travel as much as I do - 165,000 miles last year - you exist nowhere. You're always between heaven and earth, you're always arriving in a new place, you're always starting from the beginning - talk about origins - and you don't know quite what's going to unfold. You live in the unexpected and the inexplicable all the time.

As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.

A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.

What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.

For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving.

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

Our history is an aggregate of last moments

I've never been in love... But I imagine it's similar to the feeling you get when you see your waiter arriving with your food

Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.