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We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become.
Clare of Assisi
'What we adore and whom we cherish influences our transformation.'
2.
It’s the mind itself which shapes the body.
Joseph Pilates
The psyche molds the physical form.
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When a silhouette or shape is as beautiful as it is functional and relevant, that's true luxury.
Reed Krakoff
When an outline or form is both aesthetically pleasing and useful, that is the epitome of opulence.
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The whole point with type is for you not to be aware it is there. If you remember the shape of a spoon with which you just ate some soup, then the spoon had a poor shape.
Adrian Frutiger
The entirety of the purpose behind design is for it to be indiscernible. If you can recall the silhouette of a spoon from which you just enjoyed a bowl of soup, then that spoon must have had an inadequate form.
5.
There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.
Charles James
There are not many groundbreaking forms or outlines -- merely a multitude of permutations.
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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
Barack Obama
'We did not come to dread the future. We came here to form it.'
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The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
Hortense Calisher
I stowed away an array of words in my mental vault, like a treasure trove of trinkets.
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The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.
Maria Montessori
The youngster, availing himself of all that is available to him, molds his destiny.
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The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form.
Karl Blossfeldt
The vegetation never declines into barren utilitarianism; it creates and molds in accordance with rationality and appropriateness, and with its primordial strength coerces everything to reach the maximum aesthetic form.
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My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.
Edward Said
11.
The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.
Vera Nazarian
12.
Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.
James Franco
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Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
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This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.
Liz Murray
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Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.
Judah Smith
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Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.
Miyamoto Musashi
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None of us condone terrorism in any way, shape, or form, and I believe Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that was, is, and remains a threat to peace in the Mideast, and must be dismantled and disarmed.
John Conyers
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...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you’re marching towards. Everyone knows what you’re against; show them what you’re for.
Andrea Gibson
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To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.
Edith Wharton
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I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.
Jack Dorsey
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I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.
Julia Roberts
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My goals are so high that I don't have time to relax, in any way shape or form.
Kevin Hart
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The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.
Max Baucus
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Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
Alvar Aalto
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God expects you not simply to face the future; He expects you to embrace and shape the future--to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities.
Jeffrey R. Holland
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We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.
Robert McNamara
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I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.
Jonathan Lethem
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If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take very good care never to do the same again. If I had a message for my contemporaries, I said, it was surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success.
Thomas Merton
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Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end
Christopher Paolini
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To believe in Him under any particular form is not enough. Accept Him in His numberless forms, shapes and modes of being, in everything that exists. Aim at the whole and all your actions will be whole.
Anandamayi Ma
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Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.
Angela Carter
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The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.
Michel Houellebecq
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What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
Peter Zumthor
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She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.
Michael Ondaatje
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We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
William Shakespeare
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Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.
Richard Serra
40.
Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.
Carolina Herrera
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There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.
Ovid
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A basic assumption shapes most Americans’ mindset about labor: the belief that the death of unions isn’t my problem because I’m not in a union. That assumption is wrong. Even if you aren’t a member, your pay is influenced by the strength or weakness of organized labor. The presence of unions sets off a wage race to the top. Their absence sets off a race to the bottom.
Eric Liu
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Life is a puzzle. Every piece fits together to create who we are, what we do, how we feel. Every experience shapes us into who we will eventually become.
Kyle
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We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
Marshall McLuhan
46.
Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible. Once you start believing in yourself, your dreams take shape. The more you believe, the more you achieve.
Martina Navratilova
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In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.
Molly Ringwald
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There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.
James May
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There's still such chaos in me. Still so little firmly outlined. Just like my face: a formless mass that only takes on shape through the expression of the moment. The searching for our selves is the most agonizing
Karen Horney
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And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.
C.P. Cavafy