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“I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.”

Ifs Art Two Matter Eye Truth Is Gains Connected Chess Pursuit Two Things Martial Arts Links Parallels Thematic

Author:Joshua Waitzkin

“One of the things my mother taught me when I was a child was just keep your eye on the prize and as long as you feel that you're right with your creator and you're right yourself, then other people's opinions really don't matter.”

People Feels Children Long Matter Eye Mother Opinion Taught Creator Prize Eye On The Prize

Author:Cathy Hughes

“Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant”

Matter Eye Tasks Servant

Book:Managing the Non-Profit Organization

Source: Managing the Non-Profit Organization

“I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.”

People Matter Eye Sleep Taken Fingers Partners Burned Caves Damnation Hermits

Book:The Door Into Summer

Source: The Door Into Summer

“Liberty is a harsh mistress. You cannot pick and choose what you like and dislike about her. Liberty will not change her principles for you, no matter how much you claim to love her. She will stand fast in her demands for total acceptance. If you can't receive her, she will recognize you as a false lover and leave you. And when you hear that door slam, it will take every tear in your eye, every ounce of blood in your veins, and all the nerve in your heart to win her back.”

Ifs Heart Matter Eye Winning Liberty Principles Doors Blood Acceptance Tears Lovers Demand Picks Claims Nerves Dislike Harsh Veins Mistress Slam Like And Dislike Tears In Your Eyes

Author:William H. Masters

“I have always found thick woods a little intimidating, for they are so secret and enclosed. You may seem alone but you are not, for there are always eyes watching you. All the wildlife of the woods, the insects, birds, and animals, are well aware of your presence no matter how softly you may tread, and they follow your every move although you cannot see them.”

Life Wells May Littles Matter Seems Eye Moving Found Animal Secret Tree Bird Woods Thick Insects Wildlife Intimidating Your Presence Eyes Watching

Book:The Gardening Year

Source: The Gardening Year

“Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.”

Matter Use Eye Courses Wise Seeing College Depends What Matters Erudite

Author:Ernst Gombrich

“My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea, even switch me to different subject matter. So I start out with my mind as free from image as the silver film on which I am to record, and I hope as sensitive.”

Mind May Ideas Different Matter Eye Film My Own Records Subjects Cameras Sensitive Silver Subject Matter Different Subjects

Book:Edward Weston on photography

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“The Bible warns us clearly that we must not attack men of God no matter how sinful they may have become or wicked in our eyes.”

Men May Matter Eye Bible Wicked Man Of God

Author:Benny Hinn

“The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is the special portal to such sights.”

World Matter Eye Views Seeing Special Sight Point Of View Painter Simplest Portal

Author:Richard Schmid

“Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body.”

Ifs Soul Matter Philosophy Use Body Light Eye Spiritual Sleep Study Shadow Vices Communicate Intellect Substance Contemplation Rays Spiritual Life Devoted Awakened Angelic

Book:The Book of the Courtier

Source: The Book of the Courtier

“Watch their hands, watch their eyes. Read eyes. No matter what a man is saying to you, it's not as important as what you can read in his eyes. The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you; the most important thing he has to say is what he's trying not to say.”

Men Trying Important Matter Hands Eye Watches No Matter What Important Things His Eyes

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“We must distinguish between genes that cause physical characteristics, like the color of your eyes or hair, over which you have no control, and what we could call 'behavioral dispositions'. We are responsible for our behavior, no matter what those dispositions are.”

Matter Eye Causes Color Hair Behavior Responsible No Matter What Characteristics Genes Disposition

Author:Erwin W. Lutzer

“As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.”

Firsts Matter Light Eye Beautiful Space Objects Gay Intense Painter Composer Time And Space Stimulus Foul

Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.”

Looks Matter Eye Mortals Flash Lightning

Author:Berthold Auerbach

“Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.”

Matter Hard Eye Easy Work Out Misunderstanding

Author:John Lennon

“It's tricky to be such an independent person, from Canada. It doesn't matter how incredible your work is, if you're an unknown person and you're from Toronto, people's eyes glaze over immediately as soon as you introduce yourself.”

People Ifs Persons Matter Eye Independent Incredibles Canada Patriotism Introducing Tricky Toronto Independent Person Unknown Person

Author:Shary Boyle

“It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of qualities in the sex. Her beauty is her capital--her worth in the market matrimonial depends upon it. With her the Virtues are less reverenced when unaccompanied by the Graces. The sex understand this very well; and hence they seek mainly to make captive the eye, knowing the mind and heart will follow as a matter of course.”

Men Mind Wells Heart Matter Eye Courses Sex Women Quality Knowing Virtue Grace Depends Chiefs Misfortunes Heart And Mind Captives Her Beauty Arbiter

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself in the eyes of the bourgeois of the sin of writing, for literature is, in essence, heresy. The situation has not changed except that it is now the Communists, that is, the qualified representatives of the proletariat, who as a matter of principle regard the writer as suspect.”

“The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall... The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn't do if your life depended on it.”

Ifs Men Way Matter Eye Able School Courses High School Men And Women Performances Scales Halls Gathering Circus Theatrical Sophistication

Author:Robert Benchley

“No matter if you're a man, woman, cat, hamster, you will get lost in Matt Bomer's eyes. I don't know what they are made of outside of dreams and rainbows and amazingness but it truly doesn't matter. And when he sings. It's like God gave with both hands and then grew a third hand and graced him with more.”

Ifs Knows Men Made Matter Dream Hands Eye Lost Grew Cat Thirds Rainbow Men Women Hamsters

Author:Channing Tatum

“Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.”

People Believe Art Matter Eye Games Art Is Ears Exciting No Matter What Productions Psychological Concrete Delightful Make Believe Sociological Childish Things

Book:Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art

Source: Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art

“In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch. Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing. The result of our thinginess is our blindness to all reality that fails to identify itself as a thing, as a matter of fact.”

Matter Facts Reality Eye Space Results Failing Fingers Senses Substance Perceive Daily Life Blindness Matter Of Fact Spelling

Book:Insecurity of Freedom

Source: Insecurity of Freedom

“We are taught all this [the motion of the earth on its axis and around the sun] by the order of succession, in which those phenomena (various planetary happenings) follow each other, and by the harmony of the world, if we will only, as the saying goes, look at the matter with both eyes.”

Ifs World Looks Matter Eye Earth Order Sun Taught Happenings Harmony Various Succession Axes

Author:Nicolaus Copernicus

“These golden matters Of Gyges and his treasuries Are no concern of mine. Jealousy has no power over me, Nor do I envy a god his work, And I do not burn to rule. Such things have no Fascination for my eyes.”

Matter Eye Mines Concern Envy Golden Fascination Treasury

Book:Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: three lyric poets of the late Greek Bronze Age

Source: Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: three lyric poets of the late Greek Bronze Age

“The Truth is not Arbitrary or a Matter of Opinion, but can be Investigated, and Those who Earnestly Search for the Truth will Find It. The Truth is Hidden to the Blind, but he who has the Mental Eye Sees the Truth.”

Matter Eye Opinion Truth Is Blind Arbitrary

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Men must always have distinguished (e.g. in judicial matters) between hearsay and seeing with one's own eyes and have preferred what one has seen to what he has merely heard from others. But the use of this distinction was originally limited to particular or subordinate matters. As regards the most weighty matters the first things and the right way the only source of knowledge was hearsay.”

Men Way Firsts Matter Use Eye Seeing Heard Particular Source Regard Distinction Right Way Distinguished Judicial Subordinates Hearsay

Book:Natural Right and History

Source: Natural Right and History

“What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for reassurance in the eyes of others. Look for reassurance in your own eyes. Only you know if Buddhist practice is improving the quality of your life.”

Ifs Knows Looks Matter Eye Fun Quality Practice Buddhism Enlightenment Seeking Buddhist Having Fun What Matters Improving Etiquette Pathways Reassurance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The director is the captain of the ship, without question. No matter what their talent or energy level is, everyone on the crew has all eyes on the captain. If they come in going, "I don't know. Maybe we'll do this. Maybe we'll do that," you've got 10 days to shoot and they don't care what you're doing.”

Ifs Knows Matter Eye Care Energy Levels Talent Directors No Matter What Don't Care Ships Captains Crew Energy Levels

Author:Melissa Leo

“You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.”

“If you fall in love with someone, it doesnt matter who they are. Ive had lots of girlfriends who werent in the public eye. It is hard, all the intrusion: you have a row with someone, and even though youve sorted everything out, you get the are-they-going-to-split headlines for the next ten days.”

Ifs Matter Hard Eye Fall Next Ten Falling In Love Girlfriend Splits Headlines Public Eye Intrusion

Author:Max Beesley

“Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens.”

Source: The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues

“it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and the eyes ask why.”

Looks Matter Body Eye Age Asks Grows Dying Disease Flesh Surrender Old Age Exhausted

Book:The Long Goodbye

Source: The Long Goodbye

“I'm looking at everything with a clear eye and an attitude of acceptance rather than skepticism. I realized, this isn't a career - this is my life. This is what I do. It doesn't matter what the size of the role is. It matter that you're enjoying yourself. And I'm loving it.”

Matter Eye Enjoy Attitude Careers Roles Clear Acceptance Size I Realized Skepticism Clear Eyes

Author:Jake Busey

“I found myself face to face with a long line of people resembling extras off the set of Night of the Living Dead: shuffling along, pale and twitching, empty cups in hand -- murderous. Miserable. No matter that the air was rich with vapors of fresh-ground beans and warm muffins; no matter that the soft piped-in Vivaldi poured over us like steamed milk. These angry zombies were rushing to work, and their eyes flashed fair warning: Don't mess with us. We haven't had our coffee.”

“There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter.”

Matter Body Eye Spirit Fine Pure

Book:The Doctrine and Covenants, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Containing the Revelations Given to Joseph Smith, Jun. the Prophet ... Divided Into Verses, with References

Source: The Doctrine and Covenants, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Containing the Revelations Given to Joseph Smith, Jun. the Prophet ... Divided Into Verses, with References