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«Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.»
«Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.»
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
(Educator, Inventor)
| About:
Opportunity,
Overcoming
| Keywords:
closing, door, late, so long, stare, stares, Too late
«The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
closing, dropped, masks, masquerade, masquerades, masquerading
«The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.»
Author: Andy Rooney
(Correspondent, Journalist, Producer, Writer)
| Keywords:
closing, conversely, joyous, opening, privacy, wonderfully
«Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.»
Author: Bruce Lee
(Actor)
| About:
Life,
Peace,
Truth,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
avenues, Avenue of, bodily, closing, discard, discarding, perception, self awareness, The Avenue
«Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment»
«The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
closing, dropped, masquerade, masquerades, masquerading
«On some fond breast the parting soul relies,/ Some pious drops the closing eye requires; / E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, / E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.»
«Some closing of the gates is inevitable after thirty, if the mind itself is to become a creative power.»
«One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
closing, closing time, convivial
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