Feats Quotes - Page 2

• Un solo acto de audacia puede alterar toda la concepción de lo que es posible.

  Graham Greene

  Daring, Whole, Conception

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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• El camino a la oscuridad está empedrado de atletas que realizan grandes hazañas ante multitudes amistosas. La grandeza en los deportes de grandes ligas es la capacidad de ganar en un estadio lleno de gente que está deseando que pierdas.

  George Allen

  Deporte, Atleta, Ganar

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• Discovery peaked 30 years ago. It takes no feat of the imagination. It takes no feat of intellect to conclude we now face the corresponding peak in production in 2005.

  Gordon Campbell

  Discovery, Years, Imagination

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• Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers are caught up in a new quest for truth and introspection as they try to figure out whether these dramas of body and soul come from the devil or God. A stunning feat of scholarship and interpretation.

  Natalie Zemon Davis

  Drama, Men, Europe

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• What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Book, Shipping, Printing

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2001). “Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books”, p.117, Beacon Press

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• At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Years, Progress

  "Scientists and writers pay tribute to Arthur C Clarke" by Sarah Knapton, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2008.

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• Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50 years, I faced the next page defenseless and unprepared. Writing for me was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.

  Philip Roth

  Morning, Jobs, Real

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• Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity

  Gorgias

  Pain, Powerful, Joy

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• El suelo no suele perderse en losas o montones de magnífico tonelaje. Se pierde poco a poco en millones de hectáreas por los actos descuidados de millones de personas. No puede salvarse con hazañas heroicas de tecnología gigantesca, sino sólo con millones de pequeños actos y restricciones, condicionados por pequeñas fidelidades, habilidades y deseos. La pérdida de suelo es, en última instancia, un problema cultural; sólo se corregirá con soluciones culturales.

  Wendell Berry

  Pérdida, Tecnología, Pequeños actos

  Wendell Berry (2003). "El arte de lo común: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry", p.202, Counterpoint

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• Administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst relations with our adversaries, and the most serious upheavals in the developing world since the end of the Second World War.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  War, Presidential, Administration

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• The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness.

  Robert Henri

  Happiness, Men, Pursuit

  "The Art Spirit".

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• I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

  Andrei Platonov

  Soldier, Want, Arms

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• I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Dna, History, Focus

  A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself.Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance.

  Hafez

  Thinking, Negativity, Might

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• Sabía que si se lograba la hazaña, sería con el más temible sacrificio de soldados tan valientes y gallardos como los que jamás han participado en una batalla.

  John Bell Hood

  Sacrificio, Valentía, Soldado

  John Bell Hood (1996). "Avance y retirada: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies", p.58, U of Nebraska Press

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• Así, en un aspecto crucial, las audiencias de Kansas repiten la pauta establecida por el Juicio Scopes, que se ha repetido muchas veces desde entonces, a saber, los evolucionistas escaparon al escrutinio crítico al no tener que someterse al contrainterrogatorio. En este caso, lograron la hazaña boicoteando las audiencias. Por lo tanto, espero el día en que las audiencias no sean voluntarias, sino que impliquen citaciones que obliguen a los evolucionistas a declarar y a ser interrogados largamente sobre sus puntos de vista.

  William A. Dembski

  Kansas, Vistas, Juicios

  "La estrategia del tornillo de banco: Squeezing the Truth out of Darwinists" por William Dembski, uncommondescent.com. 11 de mayo de 2005.

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• A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

  Criss Jami

  Common Sense, Soldier, May

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.123, Criss Jami

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• There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.

  George Steiner

  Intellectual, Age, Three

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.171, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Everybody wants to make more movies. You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business.

  Jay Chandrasekhar

  Perseverance, Challenges, Want

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and swam to San Francisco handcuffed. That made national publicity. Then, there were three or four years where I would do more difficult feats. Another birthday I towed a thousand pound boat across the Golden Gate. On my 65th Birthday I towed 65 boats a mile and a half in Tokyo. On my 70th Birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it with my feet and hands tied a mile and a half in Long Beach.... My next Birthday I will be 93. I'm gonna tow my wife across the bathtub.

  Jack LaLanne

  Beach, Hands, Years

  Interview with Antonia Venezia, aliveeastbay.com. March 2007.

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• I usually like to interact with people who don't speak until it's necessary but I was intimidated by Carl's physique. I didn't feel inferior so much as incompatible. Carl existed on a plane where success was measured by physical feats. He had a brain because his body needed it, rather than the opposite. I didn't understand such people. I didn't know what they wanted, or might do.

  Max Barry

  Opposites, People, Brain

  Max Barry (2011). “Machine Man”, p.71, Vintage

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• En Banderas rojas, Juris Jurjevics ha logrado brillantemente una hazaña que se está convirtiendo en una de las principales características de la literatura del siglo XXI: la perfecta combinación de una forma de género con la profunda resonancia del arte literario. La lectura de este libro es apasionante tanto por su fuerza narrativa como por su penetración en el corazón humano.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Arte, Libro, Banderas Rojas

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• This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ... Lee the biographer pursues her subject down every winding corridor, into every hidden passage and dark corner ... Her critical exploration of Edith Whartons work is dazzlingly assured ... A feat of exhaustive research, and finely tuned to Whartons creative achievement at the same time ... [Wharton] could scarcely have failed to be impressed by ... its artistic sympathy, its sonorous depths, and its soaring conception.

  Mark Bostridge

  Dark, Achievement, Creative

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• It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.

  Nikola Tesla

  Simple, Engineering, Doubt

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.514, Simon and Schuster

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• Jesus, when he was on Earth, he was out there helping people, right? Why did he perform those miracles? To call attention to his profession. Why do you think I do these incredible feats? To call attention to my profession!

  Jack LaLanne

  Jesús, Pensamiento, Gente

  "Jack LaLanne dies at 96; spiritual father of U.S. fitness movement" by Claudia Luther, www.latimes.com. January 23, 2011.

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