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“Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.”

Ifs Knows Needs Kind Soul Faces Desire Turns Opportunity Knowing Greatness Shapes Dare Nobility Boldness Complacent Knowing The Future

Book:Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see it and that you can shape it later.”

Firsts Children Knowing Shapes

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially. During the crucial early years, parents can help to shape a child's life in such a way that words do not completely mask other kinds of reality. My most urgent suggestions to parents are concerned with the use of words, or rather, not using words.”

World Way Years Kind Children Helping Use Reality Parent Goal Can Do Deals Knowing Shapes Concerned Our Children Alternatives Mask Crucial Suggestions Urgent Using Words

Author:Betty Edwards

“Whenever I read a poem that moves me, I know I'm not alone in the world. I feel a connection to the person who wrote it, knowing that he or she has gone through something similar to what I've experienced, or felt something like what I have felt. And their poem gives me hope and courage, because I know that they survived, that their life force was strong enough to turn experience into words and shape it into meaning and then bring it toward me to share.”

Knows World Giving Feels Persons Enough Moving Turns Strong Force Felt Gone Knowing Share Shapes Connections Give Me Survived Not Alone Strong Enough

Author:Gregory Orr

“Modern brain-scan technology has revealed that each person shapes a completely unique brain. Other studies have documented the amazing regenerative ability of the brain, which can be reshaped by the power of your mind to bring you the world you desire. Knowing that, the obvious question arose: Why not use your mind to create the brain you want, using conscious choice?”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me. Sometimes a piece of hubcap fits in such a way that the shark becomes almost alive in my hands, climbing, twisting or just hanging motionless and predatory, and this gives me a buzz. It makes me feel like a vehicle for the creation process rather than a controller, and not knowing the exact outcome is exciting.”

“I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though it were a movie.”

Trying Ends Stories Knowing Shapes Sections

Author:Dave Barry

“I find that I have painted my life, things happening in my life - without knowing. After painting the shell and shingle many times, I did a misty landscape of the mountain across the lake, and the mountain became the shape of the shingle - the mountain I saw out my window, the shingle on the table in my room. I did not notice that they were alike for a long time after they were painted.”

Long Rooms Knowing Saws Painting Shapes Mountain Long Time Happenings Window Tables Things Happen Landscape Lakes Shells Misty Shingles

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe

“Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future.”

Giving Knowing Shapes Tools Our Future Your Future

Book:No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power

Source: No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power

“I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of focus and if it's possible I try to make an amalgamation of every shape and color in the picture so that it acquires a circular movement: from representation to abstraction, from life to death, and vice-versa.”

Ifs Trying Knowing Focus Seeing Movement Color Shapes Areas Vices Acquire Representation Abstraction Select Vice Versa Knowing Everything Amalgamation

Author:Olivo Barbieri

“The shape the words end up taking are themselves the meaning of the words, they are retrospectively what we meant to say. There's no way of knowing this until you register it in visible form. But the other side of this is that you do have some idea of where you are going.”

Way Ideas Ends Form Sides Knowing Shapes Visible Where You Are Register Where You Are Going

Author:Teju Cole

“The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.”

Facts Stories Able Knowing Written Shapes

Author:Annie Leonard