Top 30 Our Past Shapes Who We Are Quotes
#1. Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the "invisible forces" that shape us
Tony Robbins
#2. [It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.
Shawn Achor
#3. John Grady looked at the table. The paper cat stepped thin and slant among the shapes of cats thereon. He looked up again. Yessir, he said. Just me and him.
Cormac McCarthy
#4. My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of Armenia germinate, breathe, expand and contract, multiply and thereby create new paths for exploration.
Arshile Gorky
#5. Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.
Ayn Rand
#7. Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?
John Milton
#8. Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.
Frances Hardinge
#9. We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us
its size, motion and meaning.
Nawal El Saadawi
#10. Values can't just be words on a page. To be effective, they must shape action.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#11. A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.
Henry Moore
#12. A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.
Charles Handy
#13. There is in the world today a great and mysterious force that shapes the fortunes of millions of people. It is called the stock market.
Robert Wright
#14. We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#15. We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.
Bryan Stevenson
#16. There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature.
Ovid
#17. You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.
Dean Norris
#18. We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision.
Steven Pinker
#20. Most of the time, because of their failure to fasten on to words, my thoughts remain misty and nebulous. They assume vague, amusing shapes and are then swallowed up: I promptly forget them.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#21. The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [ ... ] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.
Laura Miller
#22. We weren't so different, Finn and I. Cages come in lots of colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.
Amy Harmon
#23. The sincerity with which you do things, that's what shapes your life.
Blake Griffin
#24. Among God's creations, two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes in order not to be seperated from the man. -Andres Segovia
Andres Segovia
#25. When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.
George MacDonald
#26. Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.
Robert Caro
#27. I feel like I have a very unique perspective especially for someone in the hip-hop genre. I'm not afraid to explore it, and how my upbringing then shapes my music and being a New York kid and all of that stuff ... that's really the most unique thing I can offer to the music in general.
Hoodie Allen
#28. No two moralities match. Accept different shapes, so long as they aren't sharp enough to hurt.
Matt Haig
#29. Gray vines coiled leftward in this northern hemisphere, what winds them shapes the dogwhelk's shell. Weeds sprouted from cinder and brick.
Cormac McCarthy
#30. Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.
Karen Salmansohn
