Best Iceberg Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“People are like icebergs, you only see ten percent of them.”

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“Truth is made only for one reason to be deep down in the ocean as for the top part, they should be the lies... this is the iceberg.”

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Author:Deyth Banger

“Success is like an iceberg. Nobody sees the work that comprises it.”

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Author:Jeffrey Fry

“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. A writer who appreciates the seriousness of writing so little that he is anxious to make people see he is formally educated, cultured or well-bred is merely a popinjay. And this too remember; a serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to global warming.”

“Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer who comes, but the next writer must pay, always, a certain nominal percentage in experience to be able to understand and assimilate what is available as his birthright and what he must, in turn, take his departure from. If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. A writer who appreciates the seriousness of writing so little that he is anxious to make people see he is formally educated, cultured or well-bred is merely a popinjay. And this too remember; a serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”

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Book:Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon

“Just as I’m about to continue walking along the shoreline, the left third of the iceberg breaks off suddenly and crashes violently, like a high-rise apartment building imploding in the heart of the city. Tears roll down my face uncontrollably as I watch the two distinct halves of the iceberg drift further and further apart from each other. It’s devastating to watch something that seems so strong and unbreakable crumble in an instant. Even more devastating is the feeling that there’s nothing I can do about it.”

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Book:See What Flowers

Source: See What Flowers

“That’s why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right?”

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Book:Invasive

Source: Invasive

“The iceberg model highlights why we cannot judge a new culture purely on what we see. Instinctively, we know there's more to a situation than we initially perceive... It is essential to take time to uncover the beliefs that underline behavior.”

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Book:Curious About Culture: Refocus your lens on culture to cultivate cross cultural understanding

Source: Curious About Culture: Refocus your lens on culture to cultivate cross cultural understanding

“Knowledge is the tip of the iceberg whereas wisdom is the entire iceberg.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“Scientists say we only see around 10% of an iceberg above water; but, it's the remaining 90% underneath that damages the ships and often sinks them (like the Titanic). In reality, the same is true with our mental, emotional and spiritual icebergs. The only difference is we end up spending the rest of our lives trying to stay afloat, continuing trying to plug the holes and bail out the water that's making us sink.”

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Author:Tom Smith

“Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity is the tip of the iceberg whereas sickness and disease is the entire iceberg.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“I realized during researching Electromagnetic Hyper-Sensitivity (EHS) that it was just the tip of a very large iceberg of wireless radiation induced human health issues.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“The Boeing 737 Max 9 is just the tip of an iceberg of problems the USA airline industry has.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not... to Bill O”

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“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”

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Author:Sigmund Freud

“I'm fascinated with genetic science, and I have been for a very long time. I always look at science and technology because I think that the developments in my lifetime have been so remarkable - and we're only at the tip of the iceberg with projects like decoding the human genome.”

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Author:Nick Rhodes

“His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them, for they are not of ice, they are what Lawren Harris feels and thinks after he has contemplated them”

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Author:J. D. Salinger

“Melting icebergs aren't beheading Christians in the Middle East.”

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Author:Reince Priebus

“The way to get through anything mentally painful is to take it a little at a time. The mind can't handle dealing with a massive iceberg of pain in front of it, but it can deal with short nuggets that will come to an end. So instead of thinking, Ugh, I've got twenty-four miles to go, focus on making it to the next telephone pole in the distance. Whether you're running twenty or one hundred and twenty miles at a time, the distance has to be tackled mentally and physically one mile at a time. The ability to compartmentalize pain into these small bite sizes is key.”

Source: Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life

“In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the 'imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis. The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it.”

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“Two days like icebergs bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind drifted by and were good to put behind.”

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Book:Threshold

Source: Threshold

“Twenty-eight years ago, I created my first game on an Apple II in my bedroom closet at a time when the interactive entertainment industry was taking its first baby steps. Today the games business has grown to a multi-billion dollar industry and we are just at the tip of the iceberg. I'm thrilled to have been a part of this successful journey and I'm extremely honored by the Academy's Hall of Fame induction.”

“Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg. Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.”

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Hemingway, damn his soul, makes everything he writes terrifically exciting (and incidentally makes all us second-raters seem positively adolescent) by the seemingly simple expedient of the iceberg principle - three-fourths of the substance under the surface. He comes closer that way to retaining the magic of the original, unexpressed idea or emotion, which is always more stirring than any words. But just try and do it!”

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Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“What we learned in there is significantly more than what is out in the media today. I can't speak to what we learned in there, and I don't know if there are other leaks, if there is more information somewhere, if somebody else is going to step up, but I will tell you that I believe it's just the tip of the iceberg.”

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Author:Loretta Sanchez

“In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.”

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Book:Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

“Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.”

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Book:The Greengage Summer

Source: The Greengage Summer

“English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.”

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Author:Margaret Halsey

“I had to learn that a good actor, like an iceberg, reveals only a small part of his ability on the surface. You suggest; you don't serve on a platter. You hold back. You don't expose it all to view. That's the way to put the audience's imagination to work.”

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Book:Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography

Source: Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography

“The attacks on old words and the coining of new are the visible tip of the iceberg of change.”

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Author:Michelene Wandor

“We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.”

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Author:William Gerhardie

“our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.”

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Book:Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories

Source: Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories

“If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie.”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.”

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Author:Olivier Theyskens

“By fundamentally changing how we design the places and systems that enable our daily lives, we can slash emissions way beyond the immediate carbon savings - because our own personal emissions are just the tip of a vast iceberg of energy and resources consumed far from our view.”

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Author:Alex Steffen

“The CIA’s resources should be focused on monitoring terrorists in caves – not polar bears on icebergs.”

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Author:John Barrasso

“I'm looking for the binding energy of a look a crop of reflections to be reaped in a winter of thorn when icebergs of illusion will melt to be served at high tea and the spaces between the poles pinned down”

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Author:Nancy Peters

“If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Just because you see an iceberg does not mean that there isn't global warming.”

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Author:John Hodgman

“What we do and accomplish is only the tip of the iceberg of what's possible for us.”

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Author:Les Brown

“I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg. I don't necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don't necessarily have access to.”

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Author:Alan Ball

“We deny ourselves the smallest comfort or pleasure; even if it only costs a few dollars. This is not prosperous spending. Prosperity says you can have red bell peppers instead of green, rib eyes instead of sirloin, and romaine instead of iceberg. It's not about spending everything you make, but enjoying what you do spend without felling guilty about it ... The positive feelings and emotions that prosperous spending brings is what attracts more positive things in your life.”

“A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.”

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Author:Errol Morris

“You think about acting kind of as an iceberg where you've got that 5% that you see... but in order to have that 5%... you have to have another 95%.”

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Author:Jonathan Tucker

“If Mark Henry was the Titanic, the iceberg would've sank!”

Ifs Mark Iceberg

Author:Jerry Lawler

“Like icebergs, people normally expose only a small part of themselves, and generally just the part they wish to show.”

People Shows Wish Small Parts Iceberg

Author:Nikki Yanofsky

“Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?”

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Book:Letters of Delmore Schwartz

Source: Letters of Delmore Schwartz

“The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef extending two or three hundred feet beneath the sea is formed. If a vessel should run on one of these reefs half her bottom might be torn away.”

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Author:Edward Smith

“The digital and physical worlds are starting to come together more seamlessly - it's only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what's coming.”

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Author:Mark Parker

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