One Hand Clapping Quotes

#1. If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea?

Douglas Coupland

#2. Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't only a responsibility, it's our chief pleasure.

Robert O. Becker

#3. When you are not near me, I make the sound of one hand clapping.

Dan Fogelberg

#4. I love the sound of one hand clapping.

Sienna McQuillen

#5. Wizards don't like philosophy very much. As far as they are concerned, one hand clapping makes a noise like cl.

Terry Pratchett

#6. What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave so make it short.
Mitch Hertzog's voice mail message.

Meg Cabot

#7. A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens a world that is strange, brutal and poetic at once and ultimately achieves the kind of spirit-healing few novels do

Niall Williams

#8. Feels pain when the love of one hand clapping
but more painful when the person you love turns out never happy living with you.

M.Rivai

#9. A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across the face. That got him off my back.

Matthew Diamond

#10. Nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.

Lynda Obst

#11. What are you doing with all those books anyway?" Ron asked.
Just trying to decide which ones to take with us," said Hermione. When we're looking for the Horcruxes."
Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.

J.K. Rowling

#12. Clear your mind of whimsy

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.

Jonathan Haidt

#14. You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

Hakuin Ekaku

#15. Listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations. When

Maya Angelou

#16. I wonder what will happen if i put a hand cream on my feet, will they get confused and start clapping?

Ellen DeGeneres

#17. There's lotion for your face, lotion for your hands, lotion for your feet, lotion for your body. Why? What would happen if you put hand lotion on your feet? Would your feet get confused and start clapping?

Ellen DeGeneres

#18. A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand.

Anthony Liccione

#19. Many times in your life you may think you are failing, but ultimately you will express yourself and that expression will justify your life.

Irving Stone

#20. Faith is also the means by which we live in response to the commands of God.

R.C. Sproul

#21. Oh, well that can't have been me," Harry smiled grimly, clapping a hand on Malone's shoulder as he moved past the big man. "You're still alive. . ." 7:03

Stephen England

#22. Some heavy shit is coming down, brothers, and we're going to go through it.

Steven Pressfield

#23. No man can lead mean, we have to have unity.

Bob Marley

#24. God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.

Wm. Paul Young

#25. To have an old dog is to look into the eyes of the sweetest soul you know and see traces of the early light of the worst day of your life.

Meghan Daum

#26. A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.

John Galt

#27. Jimmy Snuka stood up, 25 feet in the air, drove his knee through my ribs, but did I allow them to carry me out on a strecher? NO! I got right up and walked out!

Don Muraco

#28. What is the sound of one hand?

Hakuin Ekaku

#29. Always have a dream that will outlast your lifetime,

Jack Layton

#30. If you don't control your time- someone else will. If you don't protect your dream- you will fulfill someone else 's dream.

Wayde Goodall

#31. No problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

Miles Franklin

#32. The toughest feeling is when you need to be emotionally sophisticated.

Upasana Banerjee

#33. Eight people show up. The emcee is warm, friendly, and about as funny as Shoah. I take the stage to the sound of, my hand to God, one person clapping once and only once, and then I start into my act.

Patton Oswalt

#34. Girl, you have a knack for drawing trouble, Billy says, clapping an affectionate hand on my shoulder.

Cynthia Hand

#35. They pray so much I can almost imagine Jesus himself sitting up there on a white puffy cloud saying, "Oh for the love of my dad, shut the fuck up already. I heard you the first eleven times.

Tara Sivec