Best wonder & grows Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.”

Ifs Needs Writing Sometimes Grows Bits Wonder Our Lives Heard Wake Up Make Sense Visible Desperate Endeavor

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

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

“Your legs feel like fried bacon after a day of climbing and descending. It's a roller coaster ride, but no one is pulling you up the mountain. You're headed toward Yosemite more than 4,000 feet of pounding the pedals. You are aware of every movement because your thighs feel tender with a sensation of pain. You push on, toward the final ascent into the valley. In front of you is a monster mountain-El Capitan. Your eyes grow wide. You take a deep breath. Suddenly, you feel only wonder.”

“The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.”

Men Artist Speak Grows Secret Wonder Fate Performances Deeper Mortals Range Isolation Assurance Considerate Penetration

Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge.”

People Knows Humans Mean Use Feelings Science Speak Language Grows Wonder Knowledge Wonderful Building Clothes Mathematics Pool Human Experience Ecstatic

Author:Steve Jobs

“It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.”

Ifs Knows Book Grows Enjoy Pleasure Wonder Presidential

Book:Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter

Source: Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter

“I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them.”

People Grows Wonder Worry Rich Fats Rich People

Book:Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

“Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.”

Age Grows Interest Loses Wonder Mankind Accustomed

Author:Jose Saramago

“Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to the interest of pontiffs, priests, and augurs, as much as it is to the interest of lawyers and doctors that there should be lawsuits and sickness. No wonder they took care that the people should not grow slack in their religion.”

People Should Care Used Heaven Grows Interest Wonder Doubt Atheism Effects Doctors Mark Positive Atheism Lawyer Sickness Priests Wrath Lawsuit

Author:Pierre Bayle

“Miracles are happening every day. I do think that's true. If you can take the time to look. It took me a while to learn that, though some children know it instinctively and they do have wonder when they are kids. But the trouble is, as we grow older, we lose it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Children Kids Grows Loses Wonder Trouble Happenings Miracle

Author:Julie Andrews

“It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.”

World Children Young Grows Wonder Gone Growing Up Childhood This World Terrible Instant Young Children Continuation Sense Of Wonder

Author:Lucien Bouchard

“The truth of the matter is one knows what it's like being the president. Not I, nor any president to come hence. This is because life, thankfully, offers deeper quandaries. While in office, I would often wake up in a daze, wondering how I could wiggle my toes without even thinking it so, or why hair grows only on certain places and not our entire bodies, or why we aren't completely bald, or why we must close our eyes and sleep every night, or any of the millions of particulars of daily existence, let alone that I was elected the leader of an entire nation.”

Thinking Knows Matter Body Eye Night Certain Nations Grows President Sleep Existence Leader Wonder Millions Hair Offers Office Wake Up Deeper Every Night Toes Daze

Author:George Washington

“May those who have touched our canvas with their eyes and hearts grow knowing the joy and wonder of an artist of life.”

Heart May Eye Joy Artist Grows Wonder Knowing Touched Canvas

Author:Robert Regis Dvorak

“Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.”

Faces Grows Wonder Steps Forever Conditions Theory Reverence Mastery Perpetual Cultivating Natural Science

Author:Richard Powers

“When I was a kid, they'd say, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" kids would go Wonder Woman, an astronaut. Do you know what I always said? World domination - so we're on our way.”

Knows World Way Want Said Kids Grows Wonder Growing Up Do You Know Domination Astronaut Wonder Woman World Domination

Author:Terri Irwin

“I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.”

Thinking Mean Long Age Grows Ability Wonder Growing Up Okay Mature Overrated Childlike

Author:Billy Connolly

“The only way to help your unique literary voice grow and eventually sing like a glorious creature of wonder is to write what you excites you into a creative passion and brings you pure unadulterated joy.”

Way Writing Helping Joy Passion Grows Voice Wonder Creative Pure Creatures Unique Glorious Creative Passion

Author:Vera Nazarian

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