“No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments.” ThinkingWellsMatterMomentsMightAchievementNo Matter WhatShortcomingsRare Moments Author:Eric Hoffer
“What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you've made, and realize that they got it exactly, that your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between.” LooksHeartPersonsMadeEndsMomentsRealizingInterestingCommunicationEcstaticRare Moments Author:Robert Motherwell
“When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness.” NeedsLooksLongSoulMomentsCoursesWiseSourceImportanceMadnessWitClarityObservationExplanationNecksLengthFloodCompetingBrevityConjectureGiraffePoloniusRare MomentsMoments Of Clarity Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.” MenFirstsMomentsGrowsWifeSadnessHe ManHusbandMutualFirst LoveRuinedHusband And WifeMake OutTacitRare Moments Author:Laura Riding
“During those rare moments of creativeness, when a person has something in common with the making of the universe, he feels a sense of transcendence. What could be a greater reward?” FeelsPersonsMomentsUniverseCommonGreaterRewardsTranscendenceCreativenessRare Moments Author:Joseph C Zinker
“Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can't be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that's always good.” ShouldMomentsMightLeftLevelsRaisedStrandedRare Moments Author:Mick Jagger
“Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.” MomentsPerfectSilenceOughtUnderstoodMysteriousDelicateSecrecyPietyDelicacyFriendship LoveRare Moments Author:Novalis