Shaping Quotes

“You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.”
― Holly Black, Tithe

“The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.”
― Vera Nazarian, Dreams Of The Compass Rose

“None of us are saints, but we can all try to be better. Each time you do something generous, you're shaping yourself into someone who's more likely to be generous next time, and that matters.”
― Ted Chiang, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

“All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.”
― Vera Nazarian, Dreams Of The Compass Rose

“Beautiful is the man who leaves a legacy that of shared love and life. It is he who transfers meaning, assigns significance and conveys in his loving touch the fine art and gentle shaping of a life. This man shall be called, Father.”
― Stella Payton

“Today, you have the opportunity to transcend from a disempowered mindset of existence to an empowered reality of purpose-driven living. Today is a new day that has been handed to you for shaping. You have the tools, now get out there and create a masterpiece.”
― Steve Maraboli, The Power Of One

“I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind.”
― Vera Nazarian, Dreams Of The Compass Rose

“Our friends, family, co-workers, and neighbors contribute to make us what we are. We should be humble enough to appreciate and accept their respective roles in shaping our persona.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“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, Deadline

“Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but the future will come as it comes and will not be hurried.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Interlude

“Pain is the perfecting of our souls, for it cuts in order to create, it hurts in order to hone, and it knocks us down with great force so that our resolve to get up becomes unimaginably greater than the force that knocked us down. And although we have come to know it differently, such is the spirit of pain.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He who cannot shape himself first can never shape the world!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The world we create in our minds shapes the ultimate reality where we live”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“When we choose to engage reality as the best each moment can be, we are shaping more positive experiences for others.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“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

“Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Visualization shapes art.
Visualization turns abstract dreams into a reality.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Who you are is shaping your so-called reality. When you change — the world changes with you.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“images precede the real, making and shaping it into what we come to name and know as the real, producing it, fabricating it, into the worlds we come to inhabit.”
― Brad Evans, Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously

“The great ideas you met on your path are the genius sculptors which shape the shape your mind!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“When you enter a known path, path shapes you! When you create a new path, you shape the path!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Gains without failure is impossible.”
― Kierra C.T. Banks

“Climate is a major factor in the shaping of a culture.

For example, in a climate where injuries are healing very slowly or very often result in death. Violence may be reduced or all togheter filtered out.”
― Monaristw

“The physical takes shape when the spiritual is taken care of.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Dreams are the clay through which we mold our art.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“while he talked she began to see herself as a shape, an outline, with all the detail filled in around it while the shape itself remained blank. Yet this shape, even while its content remained unknown, gave her for the first time since the incident a sense of who she now was.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline

“The choice of topics, the shaping of information, the basic assumptions, and so on fall within a fairly narrow spectrum which tends to be highly supportive of state and corporate power. -Noam Chomsky, about the Media:”
― -Noam Chomsky