Shaping Quotes

#1. There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying to shape the outcome, not just the people at the pinnacle of the decision-making pyramid.

Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

#2. The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.

Theodor Schwenk

#3. This is because the caress is not a simple stroking; it is a shaping.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#4. Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

Tony Robbins

#5. Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be underestimated. It works, often in ways that are unexpected and difficult to control.

Starhawk

#6. My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

Sandra Cisneros

#7. Once I dreamed I kept a perfect little bed and breakfast by the seaside, and to everyone who came to stay with me I would say, in that tongue, 'Be whole,' and they would become whole, not be broken people, not any longer, because I had spoken the language of shaping.

Neil Gaiman

#8. One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self.

Rosellen Brown

#9. Our vibrations are interpretation of our five senses i.e. hearing, sight, touch, smell, and taste. Our world is shaping itself according to our thoughts . We are causing expansion of time-space reality. We are contributing hugely to this process.

Hina Hashmi

#10. I cut the feet out of control top pantyhose one night, threw them on under my white pants and realized that the toning and shaping was perfect and that the hosiery material is thin enough that I could make shape wear out of it.

Sara Blakely

#11. The editor self thinks only of saving the reader time and shaping a powerful emotional experience.

Mary Karr

#12. What I have learned the most is that women have always been integral to shaping America; they just haven't been recognized across all fields.

Dyllan McGee

#13. I learned that you have to respect how much time and work a writer has put into their book. I always give the writer I'm publishing a good deal of control in shaping the book and figuring out how it looks, but I'll make suggestions on how to make it stronger.

Kevin Sampsell

#14. Quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery. It says that you can't have a Universe without mind entering into it, and that the mind is actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived. If

Rhonda Byrne

#15. Presidents are not only the country's principal policy chief, shaping the nation's domestic and foreign agendas, but also the most visible example of our values.

Robert Dallek

#16. It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

Samuel Richardson

#17. As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.

Mariella Frostrup

#18. Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.

Barbara Tuchman

#19. A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions. A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding our hearts. A poet wraps words around our own feelings and presents them as fresh gifts to humanity.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#20. I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can use that. And when you get into a rhyme group like 'not,' you got a lot of rhymes, you got a lot of choices. The more you do it, the luckier you get.

Paul Simon

#21. We're going to get the Internet we deserve, and those people who are the most active in shaping the Internet to their liking are going to win out.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#22. I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#23. [O]urs is a culture of the perpetual present, one that deliberately severs itself from the past that created us as well as the future we are shaping with our actions.

Naomi Klein

#24. The first years of life are not just important; they are more crucial to shaping children than any other time. Even before they speak, children are extremely sensitive to the messages adults send them.

Hillary Clinton

#25. Isn't it possible that this midcentury moment enters the skin more lastingly than the vast shaping strategies of eminent leaders, generals steely in their sunglasses -- the mapped visions that pierce our dreams?

Don DeLillo

#26. Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.

Brian O'Driscoll

#27. It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder.

Jonathan Kellerman

#28. I practice using my voice, shaping my lips around the familiar words unfamiliar to my mouth.

Tahereh Mafi

#29. In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marble. But a writer has to create his own clay or stone before he can begin shaping life from it.

Stuart Dybek

#30. Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the good society and the good life.

Robert L. Payton

#31. Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

Ram Dass

#32. A true work of art is shaped by the hands of another, and if in shaping us that 'other' is anything other than God, the piece will never touch the remotest periphery of its potential.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#33. All experiences are either positive for your brain or negative. If you maximize the positive ones, you are shaping the brain you want to being you the world you want.

Deepak Chopra

#34. Things will happen that you can't prevent, things will fall apart that you can't hold together, but ultimately you're shaping yourself and that final product speaks volumes about who you really are, not what people see you as or what you want to be.

Erik Tomblin

#35. This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.

Francois Fenelon

#36. We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Henry Ward Beecher

#37. When you drill down and see the forces that are shaping nations, you can see that the menu from which they choose is limited.

George Friedman

#38. Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Walt Disney Company

#39. We are not quitters. Britain has always gone out there; we have probably been more influential than any other country in shaping our world and the way it has thought about itself, the way we interact as nations.

George Osborne

#40. We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier.

Brandi Chastain

#41. We survived the Shaping Sickness. Forerunners hoped to learn the secret of how we survived the Shaping Sickness, but we would not give it to them, even under torture!

Greg Bear

#42. The suffering was shaping her perception about life, her values, priorities, goals and dreams.

A.A. Gupte

#43. All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future

Max Tegmark

#44. Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality.

Joseph Pearce

#45. The state is not only repressive; it is also educative - shaping common sense through ideological state apparatuses (such as the academy) that normalize the rule of settler colonialism.

Audra Simpson

#46. It's terrifying to realize your own decisions are shaping your destiny.

S.J. Kincaid

#47. In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#48. We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us.

Herbie Hancock

#49. You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

Geraldine Brooks

#50. Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?

Kami Garcia

#51. You have control over three things - what you think, what you say, and how you behave. To make a change in your life, you must recognize that these gifts are the most powerful tools you possess in shaping the form of your life.

Sonia Friedman

#52. tyrants always set about shaping history after their liking.

Douglas Bond

#53. I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.

Joseph R. McCarthy

#54. Behind all the hype shaping the electronic highway are corporate interests. These huge companies are doing the most natural thing in the world to them; following their own corporate interest.

Herbert Schiller

#55. George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.

Howard Zinn

#56. We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

Jonathan Sacks

#57. The power of speech does not rely upon meaning. Words carry energy all by themselves. They vibrate through the air, with the intention of the speaker, shaping consciousness and touching hearts whether understood or not.

Daniel Black

#58. Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

Mamie Gummer

#59. There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

Nancy Gibbs

#60. The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life.

John O'Donohue

#61. 'Born This Way' is shaping up to be creative ecstasy.

Laurieann Gibson

#62. The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects of shaping our personalities and humanity.

Marilyn Manson

#63. For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy.

Pam Houston

#64. From something as simple as what goes in to a good meatloaf to the not so simple - religion, culture, how you should vote, every damn thing you think or believe, your reactions, your behavior - were partially shaped by who and what your parents were.

Sandra Brown

#65. You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.

Dalai Lama

#66. Show me your friends, and I'll show you your future. The people you're hanging out with today are shaping the person you will become tomorrow.

Craig Groeschel

#67. BRICS must provide a united and clear voice in shaping a peaceful, balanced and stable world. We must harness each other's strengths, in knowledge, skills and resources.

Narendra Modi

#68. The Congress of the United States, in recognition of the unique contribution of the Bible in shaping the history and character of this Nation, and so many of its citizens, has by Senate Joint Resolution 165 authorized and requested the President to designate the year 1983 as the 'Year of the Bible.'

Ronald Reagan

#69. Honestly, I'm a shallow performer. I just go with the text and feel my way around it. There's not a whole lot of shaping.

George Wendt

#70. Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us.

John Middleton Murry Jr.

#71. The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation ... We are beginning to realize that emotions and imagination are more potent in shaping public sentiment and opinion than information and reason.

John Dewey

#72. Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future.

Daisaku Ikeda

#73. Salvation must grow out of understanding, total understanding can follow only from total experience, and experience must be won by the laborious discipline of shaping one's absolute attention.

Dante Alighieri

#74. More important...you've assembled a curriculum that works for him. It's his education. I suspect he's more likely to have a real education, an education that sticks, if he's part of shaping it.

Quinn Cummings

#75. Knowlede is power and Absolute Knowledge is Absolute Power or the Power of Truth, which is constantly shaping events and circumstances to reveal the errors in our beliefs.

Matthew A. Petti

#76. What do you think an artist is? ... he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

Pablo Picasso

#77. Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and emerge with the power to turn language into a lathe for re-shaping, re-knowing your own tongue, heart, and life ...

Jane Hirshfield

#78. Your parents and society use that word duty as a means of molding you, shaping you according to their particular idiosyncrasies, their habits of thought, their likes and dislikes, hoping thereby to guarantee their own safety.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#79. As someone who makes their living from anticipating, from shaping, the tastes of millions of tasteless morons, you have to tell yourself that the things you feel are universal, that the things you think and feel are thought and felt by millions of other people.

John Niven

#80. At your most daring moments you believe that what is going on is the ultimate human work the shaping of a soul. The power of life comes from within; go there; pray; meditate. Reach for those luminous places in yourself.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

#81. Who you are is shaping your so-called reality. When you change - the world changes with you.

Bryant McGill

#82. Millennials, and the generations that follow, are shaping technology. This generation has grown up with computing in the palm of their hands. They are more socially and globally connected through mobile Internet devices than any prior generation. And they don't question; they just learn.

Brad D. Smith

#83. You can't always get someone where you want to with just sticks. There have to be some carrots, there have to be some other shaping things.

Dennis C. Blair

#84. The way in which we react to hurts and disappointments influences the shaping of our personalities.

Billy Graham

#85. I appreciate the mistakes I made in the past cause it is shaping my future.

Tonto Dikeh

#86. A calling is simply God's shaping of your burden and beckoning you to your service to him in the place and pursuit of his choosing.

Ravi Zacharias

#87. I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

Natasha Trethewey

#88. Men are built, not born ... Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood ... I'll make it a thief, a gunman or a dope fiend. The possibilities of shaping in any direction are almost endless ...

John B. Watson

#89. The process of shaping the child, shapes also the mother herself. Reverence for her sacred burden calls her to all that is pure and good, that she may teach primarily by her own humble, daily example.

Elisabeth Elliot

#90. A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this means is that we must address trees as we must address all things, confronting them in the awareness that we are in the presence of numinous mystery.

Brian Swimme

#91. He kept seeing the brains dribbling down the wallpaper. It wasn't the killing that stayed on his mind, it was the spilled talent. A lifetime of honing and shaping torn apart in less than a second. All those stories, all those images, and what came out looked like so much oatmeal. What was the point?

Stephen King

#92. A future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in shaping the next chapter in the history of this great country, Australia.

Kevin Rudd

#93. It is necessary that the object that the artist is shaping, whether it be a vase of clay or a fishing boat, be significant of something other than itself. This object must be a sign as well as an object; a meaning must animate it, and make it say more than it is.

Jacques Maritain

#94. One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

Thom Yorke

#95. There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.

Malorie Blackman

#96. When I discovered music - when I discovered the craft of shaping a song - my being fell into place.

Charlotte Eriksson

#97. Alcohol as helpful to the making of scapegoats as mud to the shaping of golems.

Michael Chabon

#98. Learning who our children are and shaping who they will become is one of the most rewarding and ultimate pleasures of parenting.

Joan Ambu

#99. The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

Russell Lynes

#100. We can't point at an image of an evil god, such as Satan, and blame it for our faults and weaknesses. We can't blame fate. Every second of each day we're creating our futures, shaping the courses of our lives.

Scott Cunningham