Top 21 Quotes About Exemplar
#1. Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal.
Nicholas Of Cusa
#2. Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.
Jon Meacham
#3. Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing ... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
Harry Mathews
#4. Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.
Andrew Carnegie
#5. Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.
Idries Shah
#6. Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar, the maker of meanings ... he is the true artist, the true pathfinder.
Tom Peters
#7. Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.
Doris Lessing
#8. When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call 'the Chicago way.'
Thomas Frank
#9. I'd think a man who has sinful thoughts, yet conducts himself decently, is a better exemplar of virtue than a man who's never tested by such thoughts at all.
Cecilia Grant
#10. The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.
Terence McKenna
#11. Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.
Epictetus
#14. It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy.
Jack Kerouac
#15. Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.
Thomas Binney
#16. Marriage, friends, is a lifelong feast; love is no light lunch.
Garrison Keillor
#17. I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.
John Adams
#18. Art is bad when 'you see the intent and get put off.' (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the thing itself.
from the book, On Retranslating A Russian Classic Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Joel Carmichael
#19. Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.
Kevin James
#20. One of the most effective things you will ever do in life, whether you care to or not, is set an example.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#21. Light came out of this river since - you say Knights? Yes, but it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
Joseph Conrad