N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nothingness is the most peaceful state of mind. There’s no unworthiness or inferiority. There’s only pure love.”
Source: Empty Your Cup: Why We Have Low Self-Esteem and How Mindfulness Can Help
“Nothingness is the only fact. Silence is its only possible description. Rest all are just interpretations.”
“Nothingness is the source of everything. But if you want to take an apple out of it, so many other things will come out along with apple: The farmer who produced it, the farm, the seed shop, farmer’s family and ancestors... a whole new universe will come out with apple.”
“Nothingness is the source of everything. It is the magical pot from which you can get never ending supply of anything. But everytime you want something from it, you have to lose yourself into it. Then a new version of you will come out of it along with the thing you wanted.”
“Nothingness
It is only in nothing...
A damp, dull, nothingness
Those cold, sharp, empty spaces
In our times of scarcity and loss
That we understand the true meaning of everything
And the indelible value of what was cost”
Source: Beating Hearts and Butterflies: Poetry of Wounds, Wishes and Wisdom
“Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.”
Source: Being and Nothingness
“Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.”
“Nothingness, or its possibility, derives from the world with its definite properties, which we experience as dimensions “shaped” by our senses, feelings, and thoughts. Our experience is our ultimate reality. Without this reality of plurality, the ultimate truth of the Being (Oneness) is less natural and meaningful.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Nothingness
...there in this place
where nothingness takes
but for the glimmer
a steadfast shimmer
all would be consumed...”
Source: Enigmatic Evolution
“Nothingness would cease to be nothing and become the opposite if nothingness were full. That is impossible (although nothing and something, on the metaphysical or symbolic level, can be the same if something is asleep).”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Nothings ever real until its real.”
“Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume.”
“nothings promised, not the rest of tonight, not all of tomorrow!”
“Nothings wrong with honest emotion.”
“Nothing—absolutely nothing—in this life gives you more satisfaction than knowing you’re on the road to success and achievement. And nothing stands as a bigger challenge than making the most of yourself.”
“Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don’t even get your name right.”
Source: Coraline
“Nothing’s more fun than being carried away.”
Source: The Stargirl Collection
“Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.”
Source: The Bone Season
“Nothin’ wrong with witchfinding. I’d like to be a witchfinder. It’s just, well, you’ve got to take it in turns. Today we’ll go out witchfinding, an’ tomorrow we could hide, an’ it’d be the witches’ turn to find US.”
“Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our prayer which moves Jesus to come in to us. All He needs is access. He enters in of His own accord, because He desires to come in. To pray is nothing more involved than to let Jesus into our needs, and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them. And that requires no strength. It is only a question of our wills. Will we give Jesus access to our needs?.”
“Notice everything, and follow your heart and soul for how and where to react.”
“Notice how a poet's games are called his "works" - and how the "work" you do to solve a poem is really play. The impulse and motive for making a poem and for solving and enjoying a poem are quite alike: both include curiosity, alertness, joy in observation and invention.”
Source: The Complete Poems to Solve
“Notice how each particle moves.
Notice how everyone has just arrived here
from a journey.
Notice how each wants a different food.
Notice how the stars vanish as the sun comes up,
and how all streams stream toward the ocean.
Look at the chefs preparing special plates
for everyone, according to what they need.
Look at this cup that can hold the ocean.
Look at those who see the face.
Look through Shams’ eyes
into the Water that is
entirely jewels.”
Source: The Essential Rumi
“Notice how every science fiction movie or television show starts with a shot of the location where the story is about to occur. Movies that take place in outer space always start with a shot of stars and a starship. Movies that take place on another world always start with a shot of that planet. This is to let you know where you are. Novels and stories start the same way. You have to give the reader a sense of where he is and what's happening as quickly as possible. You don't want to start the story by confusing the reader.”
Source: Worlds of Wonder: How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy
“Notice how extraordinary your life truly is. It’s filled with love. Open your heart to it.”
Source: Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life
“Notice how fear goes silent when you just believe!”
“Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,” etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.”
“Notice how not even once were we told to just bow down and worship God via song for our entire lives. Yet our churches are nearly addicted to making this the high point of spiritual formation and worship. And let me be clear, this is important and true. But, at least in Genesis, it's not primary. Or another way to put it is, yes, we are called to sing to God but that singing happens through our vocation, not our mouths. Worship at the beginning of the Bible primarily was centered around the job God gave us. Our job was to make, cultivate, create, build, steward, and tame. That is the original mission, the original mandate.”
Source: Take Back Your Family: From the Tyrants of Burnout, Busyness, Individualism, and the Nuclear Ideal
“Notice how people can sit for hours and talk to one another, but call us to pray and we find it to be great difficulty. Why is this so? 1) Lack of desperation (realizing our dependence on God), 2) The wrestlings of the flesh, 3) Lack of faith to believe not only that God hears us but that He will move on our behalf.”
“Notice how selective that logic is. When a member of a group we already distrust commits harm, the group becomes suspect. When a member of our own group commits harm, the explanation becomes individual, complex, and tragic. We instinctively widen context for those we identify with and narrow it for those we do not. While that reflex is common to all of us, the question is whether we will let it rule us.”
“Notice how shame, consciously or unconsciously, pulls us away from risk, ratifies our negative sense of worth through self-sabotage, or compels us into frenetic efforts at overcompensation, grandiosity, or yearning for validation that never comes. How much each of us needs to remember theologian Paul Tillich’s definition of grace as accepting the fact that we are accepted, despite the fact that we are unacceptable.”
Source: What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
“Notice how they’ll accept anything except a man who stands alone. They recognize him at once...There’s a special, insidious kind of hatred for him. They forgive criminals. They admire dictators. Crime and violence are a tie. A form of mutual dependence. They need ties. They’ve got to force their miserable little personalities on every single person they meet. The independent man kills them—because they don’t exist within him and that’s the only form of existence they know. Notice the malignant kind of resentment against any idea that propounds independence. Notice the malice toward an independent man.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.”
Source: Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963
“Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.”
“Notice that all the traditional things philosophers do, looking for validity and soundness, promote civic friendship. That sounds pretty pie in the sky, yes, but I actually believe it.”
“Notice that “love thy neighbor” - a wildly popular piece of wisdom found in the Bible - is a command. Jesus is commanding us to love. Now, Jesus understood that emotions and feelings cannot be commanded; they cannot be controlled. He must be saying that love isn’t the way you feel about someone, it’s the way your treat someone. Love isn’t something that happens to you, it’s something that you make happen. It’s a choice.”
Source: Dating: I Think We've Missed The Point
“Notice that tearing oneself out of the insensible state is the opposite of remaining in it; the man who is beneficent from duty nevertheless acts with feelings, if not with empirical inclinations.”
“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
“Notice that the story [of technical progress accelerating indefinitely] is not testable; we just have to wait around and see. If the predicted year of true AI's coming is false, too, another one can be forecast, a few decades into the future. AI in this sense is unfalsifiable and thus--according to the accepted rules of the scientific method--unscientific.”
Source: The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
“Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.”
“Notice that there is no happiness store. It’s not because it can’t be bought; it’s because happiness can’t be owned.”
Source: The Bullet Journal Method: Track Your Past, Order Your Present, Plan Your Future
“Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them over and over again, wounding us deeply. Almost all humans have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) of the mind, which is why so many people become fearful, hate-filled, and wrapped around their negative commentaries. This pattern must be recognized early and definitively. Peace of mind is actually an oxymoron. When you're in your mind, you're hardly ever at peace, and when you're at peace, you're never only in your mind.”
“notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening”
Source: Tulips and Chimneys
“Notice the difference: A child’s disability is the focus in traditional classroom settings, but his abilities are the focus in the homeschool environment.”
Source: Overcome Your Fear of Homeschooling with Insider Information
“Notice the difference between being in control and needing control.”
“Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.”
Source: LANGUAGE IN ACTION
“Notice the granite slab you’re passing under with the lettering engraved by GT’s high-precision explosive forming process. They said nobody could work natural stone explosively so we went ahead and did it, thus bearing out the company motto at the head of the list.”
A dropout near Stal moved lips in an audible whisper as he struggled to interpret the obliquely viewed writing.
“Underneath are listed prime examples of human shortsightedness, like you’ll see it’s impossible for men to breathe at over thirty miles an hour, and a bumblebee cannot possibly fly, and interplanetary spaces are God’s quarantine regulations. Try telling the folk at Moonbase Zero about that!”
A few sycophantic laughs. Several places ahead of Stal the Divine Daughter crossed herself at the Name.
“Why is it so sheeting cold in here?” yelled someone up the front near the guide.
“If you were wearing GT’s new Polyclime fabrics, like me, you wouldn’t feel it,” the guide responded promptly.
Drecky plantees, yet. How much of this crowd are GT staff members hired by government order and kept hanging about on makeweight jobs for want of anything better to do?
“But that cues me in to another prime instance of how wrong can you be? Seventy or eighty years back they were saying to build a computer to match a human brain would take a skyscraper to house it and Niagara Falls to cool it. Well, that’s not up on the slab there because they were only half wrong about the cooling bit—in fact Niagara Falls wouldn’t do, it’s not cold enough. We use liquid helium by the ton load. But they were sheeting wrong about the skyscraper. Spread around this balcony and I’ll show you why.”
Passive, the hundred and nine filed around a horseshoe gallery overlooking the chill sliced-egg volume of the vault. Below on the main floor identical-looking men and women came and went, occasionally glancing upwards with an air of incuriosity. Resentful, another score or so of the hundred and nine decided they weren’t going to be interested no matter what.”
Source: Stand on Zanzibar
“Notice the irony: in a world ideologically dominated by monetary conservatism, and ringing with long sermons about the perils of printing money, the effective money supply had been turned over to privateers [private banks] bent on flooding the markets with money of their own making [ex. CDOs, which act as stores of value + means of exchange]. How did this differ, really, from handing the Fed’s printing presses over to the mafia? There is not much difference, is the honest answer.”
Source: The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy
“Notice the small letter “a”. The typed “a” is different from what you write with pen on paper. This difference doesn't bother you at all. Mind can adapt to anything. It can even learn to read 'cow' as 'elephant'.”
“Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.”