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“At a certain point we need to grow up; we need to look inside ourselves for our inner guidance. There are things most human beings know; they just don't want to know them. They know deep down that certain things in their lives are working or aren't working, that certain parts of their lives are functional and others are dysfunctional. But sometimes, as human beings, we don't want to know what's not convenient. So we pretend not to know.”
Source: The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
“At a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground.”
“At a certain point you have to leave childish things behind, and one of the childish things is a sense that 'Wow, I can draw' or in my case 'Wow, I can read'... You feel you have what's called a talent, but as you become an adult, if you hope to make things, you have to give up the preoccupation with talent otherwise you'll spend your life painting beautiful pictures of fruit bowls that look like fruit bowls.”
“At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve, and I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive. There are many upsides to being the studio executive, but one of the downsides is that you get removed from the actual process of making the movie.”
“At a certain point,
you no longer hope;
you just keep on existing.
One day at a time,
for the rest of your life.
And that feeling
is not shallow but runs deep—
deeper than any happiness
or love could ever run.
A vein is a mere line
poets like me used to write on
and a lifeline where sailors
swim towards at night.
If we keep on writing and giving,
we grow on that existing line
with millions of words that save hope -
and thus give existence and life.”
“At a certain point, you’re no longer a product of your environment. The responsibility eventually falls to you. To correct the way you choose to operate, rather than fall back into the comfort of what you’ve been taught.”
“At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don't look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth.”
“At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.”
Source: The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls
“At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.”
“At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.”
“At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.”
“At a certain point, I got interested in set design for the theater. I was interested in architecture, but I was taking photographs at the same time, and architecture, though it had the design element, it didn't have the narrative, emotional element that I was looking to do. I ended up painting for a while. I was dancing around it, and I realized that all these different interests came together in filmmaking.”
“At a certain point, I got used to writing on demand. I developed a habit of writing like I hired myself! I also like to write about things that affect me emotionally.”
“At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.”
“At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.”
“At a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid - I could make it work. That's opened me up to being able to be much more comfortable telling any kind of story.”
“At a certain point, I should start to pay attention and make sure I'm not damaging my vocal chords, because I enjoy using them a lot.”
“At a certain point, I started playing improvised music. After a couple of years of this, I did a little bit of analysis and found most improvised music the kind I was listening to at least, which was mainly European to be as, if not more, formulaic than any other kind of music. For example, improvised pieces would often begin and end in the same way.”
“At a certain point, I stopped seeing my clothing worn by people on the streets . . . It seemed like they were being treated as museum items.”
“At a certain point, if you chase two rabbits, you lose them both.”
“At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.”
“At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.”
“At a certain point, the atmosphere in the West could change. But I don't see determined political will [for that] at the moment.”
“At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment.”
“At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.”
“At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.”
“At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.”
Source: Spread the Word
“At a certain point, you cannot handle everything yourself; having a team around you is very important. To have a strong team of people in which you can rely and people that you've been working with for years. I relate it to soccer - you have different positions and you have to bring in the right person at the right position.”
“At a certain point, you have to stop being precious with your material and be cruel and harsh and judgmental.”
“At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free. You could be anyone, he thought. You could be anyone.”
Source: Await Your Reply: A Novel
“At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless.”
“At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.”
Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through your eyeballs. That means you're dead.”
“At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.”
“At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.”
Source: Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120
“At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another.”
Source: The Humbling
“At a certain stage of our progressive attainment, every Initiate undergoes an "Illumination by Sound" in which the Music of the Spheres becomes to us a living reality. When the magical powers of sound are rediscovered and scientifically directed to the specific purpose of healing... and when man has learned how to release the mantraic powers embodied in such inspired utterances, he will master the energies transcending even those unleashed by the atomic physicist of today. They will be energies of yet another and higher dimension.”
“At a certain time in our existential experience, we must just not want better for ourselves, but for our country and the success of our countrymen.”
“At a certain time, the father of this prince had served at the imperial court in Beijing, where his talents had won for him the favour of the Qianlong Emperor as well as the envy of his peers. His reward was a vast fortune that ostracized him from society, and later, when his only son was yet in his infancy, he quit this world entirely. A short while thereafter, the boy's mother followed in the footsteps of the father, and so the Prince, having been left an orphan, found himself quite naturally the sole heir to this veritable mountain of gold, silver and precious stones.”
“At a certain time, the father of this prince had served at the imperial court in Beijing, where his talents had won for him the favour of the Qianlong Emperor as well as the envy of his peers. His reward was a vast fortune that ostracized him from society, and later, when his only son was yet in his infancy, he quit this world entirely. Ashort while thereafter, the boy's mother followed in the footsteps of the father, and so the Prince, having been left an orphan, found himself quite naturally the sole heir to this veritable mountain of gold, silver and precious stones.”
Source: The Siren’s Lament: Essential Stories
“At a Chamber of Commerce networking breakfast, two of my friends and I were standing in a circle talking. A stranger approached, interrupted our little reunion, and gave each of us her card. She then began talking about herself and her business without a hint of social awareness, or care about her interruption. She even had the tactless gall to ask us for referrals. When she left our small circle, we looked at each other and laughed, “What was that?”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.”
“At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what most needs to be done, if they were paid something for it.”
“At a cosmic level, it doesn't matter so much what we lose or gain, but rather what we learn.”
Source: Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques
“At a crucial point in my early twenties, being able to end a pregnancy had restored to me what I regarded as a normal life. I remember that it saved me.”
Source: In the Darkroom
“At a deep level all things in our Universe are ineffably interdependent and interconnected, as we are part of the Matryoshka-like mathematical object of emergent levels of complexity where consciousness pervades all levels.”
Source: The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution
“At a deeper psychological level, the reformers' ideas of salvation introduced a major change in the way people saw their world. They could no longer free themselves from sin through magical rituals. Instead, they had to be active in adopting a new lifestyle, based on private prayer, worship, study, and individual ethical choice. This was difficult for many to do.”
Source: The Reformation
“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.”
“At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure.”
“At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.”