Heighten Quotes

#1. All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain's fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play.

Robert D. Maurer

#2. Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty.

David Gemmell

#3. Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].

Baruch Spinoza

#4. It is the purpose of art to heighten the mystery

David William Richards

#5. I don't want real life necessarily to be seen only as a context to heighten the deepness my work.

Tim Crouch

#6. That it might turn into music that would heighten emotion, but not be important in itself.

Bob Mondello

#7. It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#8. I might cry later, at home, while watching Steel Magnolias and dressed like a homeless person. Sometimes I applied mascara before crying just to heighten the experience.

Penny Reid

#9. I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn money. You need to heighten your profile.

Indira Varma

#10. What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!

Samuel Richardson

#11. Today the order of life allows no room for the ego to draw spiritual or intellectual conclusions. The thought which leads to knowledge is neutralized and used as a mere qualification on specific labor markets and to heighten to commodity value of the personality.

Theodor W. Adorno

#12. I'd like to create a role on Broadway. That would really heighten my senses.

Jamie Farr

#13. Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and the lordliest faculty, to gild the shadows of an antechamber, or heighten the splendours of a holiday.

John Ruskin

#14. I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.

Greg Louganis

#15. That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.

Anais Nin

#16. When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.

James Laver

#17. Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#19. Any method to heighten the presence of that which is the source of creation within you, is yoga.

Jaggi Vasudev

#20. Experiencing deep sadness can, sometimes, heighten your ability to feel joy.

Marketa Irglova

#21. August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery.

Henry Rollins

#22. My job as a comedian is to heighten awareness about locally grown produce, fight factory farming, and promote euthanasia, but in a funny way.

Dov Davidoff

#23. When you think about justifiable anger in one's personal life, we look at those scenarios in everyday life and through our story with a superhero, we heighten them.

Charlie Cox

#24. Do not be alarmed by the minor inconsistencies in the syntax. They are meant to heighten your level of attention and thereby make you a better programmer.

David Geary

#25. By the bold and running use of metaphor he will amplify and give us, not the thing itself, but the reverberation and reflection which, taken into his mind, the thing has made; close enough to the original to illustrate it, remote enough to heighten, enlarge, and make splendid.

Virginia Woolf

#26. But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.

Edward Young

#27. For complexity does not inevitably heighten a story's verisimilitude, or its power to convince; sometimes simplicity and economy make for a more vigorous exposition, propelling the drama forward.

Yan Lianke

#28. You weren't supposed to think. Just feel. You need to drop some of your senses in order to heighten others.

Katie Kacvinsky

#29. The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes.

Zeljko Ivanek

#30. The mandated description of fetal characteristics at two-week intervals, no matter how objective, is plainly overinclusive. [It is] not medical information that is always relevant to the woman's decision, and it may serve to confuse and punish her and to heighten her anxiety.

Harry A. Blackmun

#31. No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.

Barbara Tuchman

#32. Gay sexuality inevitably involves brutal physical abusiveness and the unnatural imposition of alien substances into internal organs, orally and anally, that inevitably suppress the immune system and heighten susceptibility to disease.

Rod Parsley

#33. Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.

Baltasar Gracian

#34. John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.

Robert Burns

#35. I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs

Les Brown

#36. Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices.

Charles Caleb Colton

#37. Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it's part of the collective brain that was further enhanced by eighth-grade shop class.

Bob Newhart

#38. Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.

Steven Amsterdam

#39. Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation.

Patrick Dennis

#40. I argue that even as the war is framed in certain ways to control and heighten affect in relation to the differential grievability of lives, so war has come to frame ways of thinking multiculturalism and debates on sexual freedom, issues largely considered separate from foreign affairs.

Judith Butler

#41. In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes almost inevitable and public approval, at least for a time, automatic.

Arthur Ekirch

#42. The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness ...

Khalil Gibran

#43. Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.

Tyler Perry

#44. I'm a music storyteller and collaborator. I hear character, location, and story as music. For me a score is there to both heighten the story and to actually tell the story with the unique emotional and narrative powers of music.

David Raiklen

#45. Marketing is all about providing information that will heighten someone's anticipated and real pleasure.

Dan Ariely

#46. The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

Ken Adam

#47. Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Music is amazing.

Tyler Perry

#48. Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.

Charles Caleb Colton

#49. Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I am totally immersed in what's happening at the moment. I want to be receptive to an image coming together.

Keith Lazelle

#50. I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.

Edward Hall

#51. I need to somehow peel away the dullness and heighten my sensitivity and alertness. I need to start sucking the juice out of every single moment of the most precious gift ever to be had, "my life!"

Bryan Kest

#52. If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

John Drinkwater

#53. The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego hates this. Because the more awake we become, the less we need the Ego.

Steven Pressfield

#54. It is unnecessary to heighten the glory of day by comparing it with the preceding twilight.

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

#55. Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw.

Nathaniel Hawthorne