Feats Quotes - Page 9

• Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a geographical expedition than a military campaign. .... a Greek army had reached what they regarded as the end of the earth. They had pitted themselves against the ultimate as bravely as the yogins had struggled to break through the limits of the human psyche. Where mystics had conquered interior space, Alexander explored the farthest reaches of the physical world. .... like many of the axial sages, he was constantly 'straining after more'.

  Karen Armstrong

  Military, Army, Years

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• My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish that feat, I will sign my name to the tale.

  Brandon Mull

  Father, Writing, Law

  Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's bidding.

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Bidding, Repeats

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.138, Courier Corporation

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• The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Relate

  Twitter post from Nov 30, 2014

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• On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Epic, Men, Air

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• We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Children, Taken, Independent

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• An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.

  William Bolitho

  Prayer, Adventure, Hands

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• The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have been difficult,painful and even impossible. The man becomes independent and self-reliant; he will never be a coward,and, when real danger threatens,he is the one who is looked up to by others. The knowledge of one's strength entails a real mastery over oneself; it breeds energy and courage,helps one over the most difficult tasks of life, and procures contentment and true enjoyment of living.

  George Hackenschmidt

  Strength, Courage, Pain

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• I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe But there is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

  Edmund Hillary

  Believe, Climbing, Building Up

  "Edmund Hillary, First on Everest, Dies at 88" by Robert D. Mcfadden, www.nytimes.com. January 10, 2008.

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• Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, “I have done it."

  Elbert Hubbard

  Moving, Broken, Done

  "Heart-to-Heart Talks with Philistines by the Pastor of His Flock". The Philistine magazine, May 1913.

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• Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

  Chris Priestley

  Mean, Imagination, Doe

  Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.

  Anthony de Mello

  Love, Hate, Achievement

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.59, Image

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• We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat.

  Tracy Austin

  Two, Numbers, Giving

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• Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.

  William Cowper

  War, Hero, Writing

  William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1839). “Poems with a Memoir of the Author by Henry Stebbing”, p.268

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• Amigos míos, pedid alegría a Dios. Alegraos como niños, como pájaros en el cielo. Y que el pecado de los hombres no os turbe en vuestros esfuerzos, no tengáis la hazaña de que amortigüe vuestro empeño e impida que se cumpla, no digáis: El pecado es fuerte, la impiedad es fuerte, el mal ambiente es fuerte, y nosotros estamos solos e impotentes, el mal ambiente nos amortiguará e impedirá que se cumpla nuestro buen empeño. ¡Huid de tal abatimiento, hijos míos! Sólo hay una salvación para vosotros: tomaros a vosotros mismos y haceros responsables de los pecados de los hombres.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lonely, Strong, Children

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• De hecho, sin una especificación de los objetivos de una criatura, la idea misma de inteligencia carece de sentido. Un seta podría recibir un premio al genio por lograr con precisión milimétrica y fiabilidad infalible la proeza de sentarse exactamente donde está sentado. Nada nos impediría estar de acuerdo con el científico cognitivo Zenon Pylyshyn en que las rocas son más inteligentes que los gatos porque las rocas tienen el sentido común de marcharse cuando se les da una patada.

  Steven Pinker

  Gato, Premios, Rocas

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• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  Usain Bolt

  Broken, Records, World

  "'I aim to become a legend,' says Usain Bolt as he smashes 200m world record" by Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2009.

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• People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Years, Weather, Voice

  Martha Gellhorn (1959). “The Face of War”

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• It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Saws

  Mickey Mantle (1986). “The Mick”, Jove Publications

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• ...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Simple

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• A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Numbers, Quality

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• Explicar el misterio de un gran cuadro -si tal cosa fuera posible- causaría un daño irreparable... Si no hay misterio, no hay poesía, la cualidad que valoro por encima de todo en el arte.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Irreparable Harm, Quality

  Entrevista con John Richardson, 1 de diciembre de 1957.

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• A feat - of access and of passionate and appropriately unsettling political commentary.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum

  Political, Passionate, Commentary

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• It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

  Ovid

  Art, Chance, Increase

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• Don Juan assured me that in order to accomplish the feat of making myself miserable I had to work in the most intense fashion, and that it was absurd. I had now realized I could work just the same in making myself complete and strong. "The trick is in what one emphasizes," he said. "We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."

  Carlos Castañeda

  Fashion, Strong, Order

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