Quotes about distance
distance reality lasts
Distance lasts a day. But Reality lasts a lifetime. Laura Schlessinger
distance mean magic
The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing things with magic, enchantment is a means through which we may gain access to sacredness. Entertainment is the means through which we distance ourselves from it. Neil Postman
distance endurance lasts
You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last. Neil Peart
distance cat self
My cats, the ones that I have, were feral when I found them so the relationship that I have with them 10 years in is very mutual, earned, and evolved over time. It was never an easy thing. I like that they have a certain distance and have their own sense of selves. Marc Maron
distance book feel-better
The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.
distance moving technology
It's important to keep up with technology, to constantly move with it. Striving to do so keeps me alert and creates a sense of fluidity but at the same time I like to distance myself from it. It's key for my process to try and remain outside the bubble. Marc Forster
distance party phones
Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away. Marc Andreessen
distance lying gossip
Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence. Thomas a Kempis
distance wish world
I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself. Sharon Olds
distance eye fiction
Your eyes wider than distance, this life is sweeter than fiction. Taylor Swift
distance mean may
To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence. Joseph Glanvill
distance steps littles
You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance Lars von Trier
distance body function
The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself. Leon Battista Alberti
distance eye men
He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320 Leo Tolstoy
distance reality myth
The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved. Peter Brook
distance practice way
One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to you. For one minute, listen to the sounds at a distance. Just listen attentively. Pema Chodron
distance land acres
It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with. Peter Sarsgaard
distance home loss
The future is flying home. That's the immediate future. But long-distance future, I plan on being back. I'm not going to end my time here with that loss. Pete Sampras
distance men emotional
The distance at which all shooting weapons take effect screens the killer against the stimulus sensation which would otherwise activate his killing inhibitions. The deep, emotional layers of our personality simply do not register the fact that the crooking of the finger to release a shot tears the entrails of another man. Konrad Lorenz
distance integrity men
It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple. Ralph Waldo Emerson
distance thinking earth
We know that within the solar system is very unlikely there will be anything more advanced than microbial life, but if we think outside the solar system and then, the distances are, of course, immense, then there could be Earth-like planets with more advanced form of life. Paul Davies
distance believe moving
People who write about issues like poverty or terrorism are a part of the elite, and the distance between the elite and nonelite is growing very fast. You can move around the world but meet only people who speak your language, who share the same ideas, the same beliefs, and in doing so you can lose sight of the fact that the vast majority of the world does not think or believe in or speak the everyday discourse of the elite. Pankaj Mishra
distance online-learning obstacles
Online learning can be a lifeline to those who have obstacles, such as geographical distances or physical disabilities. Paul Levinson
distance emotional thinking
I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions. Peter Greenaway
distance air water
Already, viral contamination offers an initial response to the question of the downside of electronic circuits, but another area of research beckons the area of ecological pollution. The pollution not only of air, water, and other substances, but also the unperceived pollution of distances. Paul Virilio
distance self intimacy
Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy. Judith Viorst
distance perspective firsts
All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance. Elizabeth Goudge
distance writing thinking
When it seemed like I was going to really have to be there at Todd's [Willingham] execution, I don't think I could have done it. I think I began to distance myself. I didn't visit as often; I didn't write as often. This was kind of after my conversation with [fire science expert] Gerald Hurst. And the [car] accident made sure that I didn't have to go up there. But I think he and I both shared that. Elizabeth Gilbert
distance guitar two
There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars or the whole band. People are used to close-miking amps, but I'd have a mic out around the back, as well, and then balance the two. Also, you shouldn't have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound right. You should be able to get the right tones simply with the science of microphone placement. Jimmy Page
distance littles bigger
Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther. Lois Lowry
distance science two
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. Madeleine L'Engle
distance soul christ
Creatures, like pictures, are fairest at a certain distance, but it is not so with Christ; the nearer the soul approaches Him, and the longer it lives in the enjoyhment of Him, still the sweeter and more desirable He becomes. John Flavel
distance
The profoundest distances are never geographical. John Fowles