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“Once in his life, a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth, I believe. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of noon and all the colors of the dawn and dusk.”

Source: The Way to Rainy Mountain

“Rock bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable...Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It's a failure of vision, a failure to see the world as it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not some other way.”

World Way Looks Wonder Vision Hell Focus Rocks Bottom Extremes Inability Unbearable Commonplace

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.”

Looks Used Wonder Mad Filled Curiosity Terror Parks Fascinated

Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.”

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Author:Chinua Achebe

“I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. I have such passion for what I do that I can't see it as bleak. When people use that word, or “grim” or “gritty,” I just think, “Oh, come on, look a bit deeper.” My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.”

People Thinking Giving Feels Looks I Can Use Film Passion Easy Bits Wonder Deeper Grim Meter Bleak Relay Races

Author:Andrea Arnold

“You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.”

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Author:Tom Hanks

“The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Ordinary people regard a man of a certain force and flexibility of character as they do a lion; they look at him with a sort of wonder, perhaps they admire him; but they will on no account house with him.”

People Men Looks Character Certain House Force Wonder Ordinary Accounts Regard Admire Lions Flexibility Ordinary People

Author:Angela Merkel

“The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish--to remind themselves and others of their own prowess.”

“When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part, I managed to paint because I had a desire, as strong as the desire for food and sex, to push through, to make an image that signified.”

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Author:Miriam Schapiro

“I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.”

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Author:Martha Manning

“If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Mind Looks Feelings Heaven Stars Wonder Doubt Grace Capable Flow Endure Look Up Mindless Power Of God

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Anita Johnston, Ph.D., author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, taught me to look in the mirror with curiosity rather than fear. So I may look at my reflection and think, 'That's interesting. I wonder why my body seems bigger today than it did yesterday. Maybe it's water weight. Maybe it's my outfit. Or maybe my eyes are just playing tricks on me.' I know it's not possible for me to gain a noticeable amount of weight overnight, so I will go no further than that. I move on with my day without skipping a beat-and definitely without missing a meal.”

“In 30 years time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed.”

People Years Looks Moving Wonder Technology Office Moving Forward

Author:Richard Branson

“A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.”

“What's interesting is, if you take the scientists and the theologians, the really good ones, they end up both filled with this wide-eyed sense of wonder and awe about look at this world we live in.”

Ifs World Looks Ends Interesting Wonder This World Scientist Filled Wide Awe Theologian Sense Of Wonder

Author:Rob Bell

“I know I have a very unusual style of playing, where other more recognized and technically proficient players might look at me and wonder what the heck I'm doing. The purpose of my learning to play the way I do was more to accompany my singing. I figured out a style where I'm mentally playing the drums over a simple melody.”

Knows Way Looks Play Might Purpose Simple Wonder Player Style Singing Melody Unusual Look At Me Accompany

Author:Dave Matthews

“I think there is an element of magic in photography - light, chemistry, precious metals - a certain alchemy. You can wield a camera like a magic wand almost. Murmur the right words and you can conjure up proof of a dream. I believe in wonder. I look for it in my life every day; I find it in the most ordinary things.”

“I think there is some truth to publicity stunts that might get you press like that. It's so hilarious because now every time I walk by the tabloid stands and look at the tabloids it makes me kind of wonder like what's really going on.”

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Author:Simon Rex

“If you open up a magazine and there's a photograph of you with a giant red circle around your thigh, like, look at this cellulite, any person - I don't care what you do - would be mortified. It's no wonder people get crazy about it.”

People Ifs Looks Persons Would Be Care Wonder Crazy Red Photograph Don't Care Circles Magazines I Don't Care Giants Thighs Cellulite

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“On a certain scale, it does look like I do a lot. But that’s my day, all day long, sitting there wondering when I’m going to be able to get started. And the routine of doing this six days a week puts a little drop in a bucket each day, and that’s the key. Because if you put a drop in a bucket every day, after three hundred and sixty-five days, the bucket’s going to have some water in it.”

Ifs Looks Littles Long Doe Able Certain Three Water Wonder Five Week Keys Six Hundred Sitting Scales Each Day Routine Sixty Buckets

Author:John McPhee

“I’ll tell you what it’s time to do right now. It’s time to set your schedule in order so that you don’t look back on the day of your death and wonder why you never really lived. It’s time to ignore the opinions of those who think your life should be all about their cause, their rules, their agenda, and not your soul’s desire. It’s time to stop flagellating and start dancing.”

Thinking Should Looks Soul Desire Order Causes Wonder Opinion Right Now Dancing Your Soul Agendas Schedules

Author:Martha Beck

“It seems to me there's so much more to the world than the average eye is allowed to see. I believe, if you look hard, there are more wonders in this universe than you could ever have dreamt of.”

Ifs World Believe Looks Hard Seems Eye Universe I Believe Wonder Average

Author:Richard Curtis

“I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Looks Lasts Stars Stuff Rooms Wonder Gone Crazy Europe Red Distance Corners My Way Movie Star Carpet Glamour Mansions Red Carpet Bartender

Author:Andre Dubus

“As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I've never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That's what basketball has done for me. It's given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting.”

Ifs Looks Done Care School Given Sleep Pay Wonder Gone College Basketball High School My Family Bills Take Care Coaching If I Could Contracts Olympics Broadcasting

Author:Doug Collins

“A character like Wonder Woman is so iconic and yet, over the course of her history, there have been lots of subtle changes. We couldn't stray too far from the comic book look, but you do have a certain amount of leeway in terms of how you interpret those elements for animation.”

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Author:Bruce Timm

“I'm sure you find it fascinating. It's always interesting for everybody to look at people who've been pushed to the brink. You wonder how you would fare with that. Nobody's interested in somebody who doesn't ever really do anything. I don't have a choice in that. I will always go for those kinds of characters. Each one is a separate choice for me, but I think it's fairly natural to find yourself gravitating towards people who have done extraordinary things.”

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Author:Christian Bale

“There's this scene in "The Night of the Hunter" when the kids are downstairs, and you have the feeling that they're both in a room and at the same time it looks remote. And you wonder, How can you give the effect of both "inside" and "outside" at the same time. And you realize, by watching it many times, that around the scene there's this black edging.”

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Author:Marjane Satrapi

“The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.”

World Looks Wonder Wonderful

Author:David Attenborough

“Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.”

Thinking Looks I Can Two Wonder Tragedy Communism Consumers Antibodies

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this. I like praying there at the window when I look out on the green and at the sky. I study with the birds, flowers, God and myself.”

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Author:Antonin Dvorak

“I think we all have a core that's ecstatic, that knows and that looks up in wonder. We all know that there are marvelous moments of eternity that just happen. We know them.”

Thinking Knows Looks Moments Happens Wonder Eternity Core Look Up Marvelous Ecstatic

Author:Coleman Barks

“I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.”

People Looks Wonder Envy Sunset Vacation Grotesque

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.”

Feels Looks Made Sometimes Process Wonder Made It Gallery Blur

Author:Polixeni Papapetrou

“Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.”

Looks Sometimes Wonder Cradle Cats Cradle

Book:Cat's Cradle: A Novel

Source: Cat's Cradle: A Novel

“One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were.”

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Author:Alastair Campbell

“I've never met an ugly millionaire. They all look cute. No wonder I married 4 of them”

Looks Wonder Mets Married Ugly Cute Millionaire

Author:Zsa Zsa Gabor

“Too many companies these days can't tell the difference between good profits and bad.... By now you're probably wondering how in heaven's name profit, that holy grail of the business enterprise, can ever be bad. Short of outright fraud, isn't one dollar of earnings as good as another? Certainly, accountants can't tell the difference between good and bad profits. They all look the same on an income statement. While bad profits don't show up on the books, they are easy to recognize. They're profits earned at the expense of customer relationships.”

“Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are. They're supposed to be gigantic explosions and they're just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.”

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Author:Alan Alda

“As a player leaving early, you always look back and wonder what could have been. But you have to be happy with your decisions, because you ultimately have to live with them.”

Looks Has Beens Decision Wonder Player Leaving Could Have Been

Author:Gilbert Arenas

“Yet there are those who wonder. There are those who have gentle stirrings. And there are those who have stepped upon the beautiful threshold of awareness - all on the verge of perceiving that which there is to see. To these ones, I say, open your exquisite senses. Look with fine clarity into that which is beyond and beneath, within and without. In these coming critical times, listen to and heed the directives of your spirits that retain the high wisdom you are just now perceiving.”

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Author:Mary Summer Rain

“When you look at yourself and feel dissatisfaction about any part of you, you will continue to attract feelings of dissatisfaction, because the law mirrors back to you exactly what you are holding inside. Be in awe and wonder at the magnificence of you!”

Feels Looks Feelings Law Wonder Mirrors Awe Dissatisfaction Magnificence Look At Yourself Awe And Wonder

Book:The Secret Daily Teachings

Source: The Secret Daily Teachings

“We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often "crash" when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I'm sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for "productivity"”

Thinking Should Looks Long Facts Use Lasts Wonder Technology Computer Should Have Legs Decades Productivity Cease Chairs Tall Crash Mistaken Plentiful

Author:Douglas Adams

“If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won't hire you? They don't hire you 'cause you look like you're crazy!”

Ifs Looks Causes Walks Half Wonder Crazy Like You Hair Arms Office Picks Shoes Necks Pants Tattoo Up And Down

Book:Mayor: The Best Job in Politics

Source: Mayor: The Best Job in Politics

“There is a time in every man's life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.”

Men Looks Wonder Every Man Remembered

Author:Louis Pasteur

“Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.”

Firsts Looks Wonder Seeing Perspective First Time Through The Eyes

Author:Betty Smith

“You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff? That's just not enough. Look at us all. What's the common assumption that got us all from there to here? What makes us deserve the ice cream and running shoes and wool Italian suits we have? I mean, I see all of us trying so hard to acquire so much stuff, but I can't help but feeling that we didn't merit it.”

“I wonder if there were any goths in gothic times. They're like: You look completely appropriate. You don't look stupid or lonely at all.”

Ifs Looks Wonder Stupid Like You Lonely Appropriate Gothic Goth

Author:Demetri Martin

“I know, when I look into the eyes of my own children, the look of wonder when I speak of life back in the '60s. That's why the Rolling Stones are such a hit even in their 60s, why Dennis Hopper is so compelling, even when he's making pitches for something unhip as long-term financial planning.”

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Author:Chris Matthews

“Did you ever look in the mirror And see a stranger standing there? Did you ever drive for miles and miles And wonder how on earth you got yourself there?”

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Author:Justin Hayward

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