“Angels come in all sizes and shapes and colors, visible and invisible to the physical eye. But always you are changed from having seen one.” EyeChangedColorShapesAngelSizeInvisibleVisible Book:A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives Source: A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives
“Humility has tremendous power. Think of Gandhi. That was humility in action. He changed the shape of an entire nation.” ThinkingActionNationsChangedHumilityBuddhismShapes Author:Frederick Lenz
“Simply put, we have to be smart about how we use our power. Not because we have less of it indeed, the might of our military, the size of our economy, the influence of our diplomacy, and the creative energy of our people remain unrivaled. No, it's because as the world has changed, so too have the levers of power that can most effectively shape international affairs.” PeopleWorldUseMightEnergyEconomyCreativeInfluenceMilitaryChangedShapesSmartAffairInternationalSizeDiplomacyBeing SmartLeversCreative EnergyInternational Affairs Author:Hillary Clinton
“In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia.” IfsWorldHumansBodyPastThreeCenturyChangedShapesSizeLongevityHuman Body Author:Robert Fogel
“The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as people - our characters or souls - can be shaped or changed by outside influences.” PeopleThinkingWayKindMadeSoulCharacterCuttingInfluenceChangedShapesGlassesOutside Influences Author:Lisa Kleypas
“There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.” MenLifePoetryChangeChangedPoliticianShapesTravelTwentiesLife ExperienceCompleteness Author:Alphonse de Lamartine
“My relationship to eating, my relationship to critiquing my own shape, all of that has changed since I've started viewing my body much more as a tool to do my work.” BodyMy OwnChangedShapesEatingTools Author:Lena Dunham
“But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.” NationsSocialBitsCitiesCompanyCarChangedBuildingShapesOrganizationStructureElevatorsSocial Structure Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“I will never say a bad word about 'One Tree Hill'. The entire shape of my world changed because of that show, so I'll always be very affectionate toward it.” WorldShowsTreeChangedShapesHillsAffectionateBad WordTree Hill Author:Hilarie Burton
“I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city” WorldWritingMadeCoursesFeltSpacePowerfulCitiesPiecesFiguresNew YorkChangedShapesBuiltDecadesObligationBeachBridgesAcknowledgeParksMost PowerfulArchitectTransformedMultipleUrbanHighwaysInfluentialMosesCivicsIconic Author:Sufjan Stevens
“I can be a fairly hands-on editor, and when I'm editing someone I feel intensely invested in that writer and her work. I love helping to shape a book, and I feel very privileged to get to do that with writers I'm excited about. I think doing that work for the past six years has changed me, and it better prepared me for the questions and suggestions.” ThinkingFeelsYearsI CanBookHelpingHandsPastChangedShapesSixPreparedExcitedEditorsEditingPrivilegedSuggestions Author:Danielle Dutton