Alfred Edersheim Quotes

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

Alfred Edersheim

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• Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Moments

• And a secret inward voice in my head was saying (in a strange breathy voice...) Yes, yessss, I will pop round to The Blind Pig. I will 'pop' round because guess who lives at the Blind Pig? It is not a blind pig, it is Alex.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Secret
  • Strange
  • Blind

• Black Power, in short, is an attitude, an inward affirmation of the essential worth of blackness. It means that the black man will not be poisoned by the stereotypes that others have of him, but will affirm from the depth of his soul : "Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone." 16 And "if the white man challenges my humanity, I will impose my whole weight as a man on his life and show him that I am not that `sho good eatin' that he persists in imagining.

  

  James Hal Cone
  • Affirmation
  • Inward
  • Black Power

• The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • World
  • Live
  • Conditions

• I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Question
  • Answer
  • Inward

• I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Thinking
  • Danger
  • Tendencies

• Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Beauty
  • Qualities
  • Lasting

• Turn inward and say to yourself "I'm just gonna do it". That mindset got me to where I am now. I look at the industry like it's a giant mall, and I have a little store - this what I'm selling: I do stand-up, I've got a podcast, and occasionally I act.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Looks
  • Littles
  • Mindset

• Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

  

  Karl Blossfeldt
  • Pleasure
  • Source
  • Educate

• Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Destroy
  • Thinks
  • Inward

• I used to take that God's-eye view as a comfort when I was a child. I'd think, "Well, we couldn't find the world meaningful at all if it weren't for death." Of course, that is the smuggest and most intolerable of all perspectives because I'm not suffering from the death or the pain.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • World
  • God
  • Children

• The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.

  

  Ellen Ullman
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Sea

• To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty guineas and that Madame Bobinot is writing dunning letters every week for the money!

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Writing
  • Husband
  • Week

• Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red...But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Pictures
  • Doctrines
  • Impressionism

• I was working as an art and tech researcher in '84. At that time there had been a small government program of assistance for artists for at least three or four years. I was working with Super 8 film then. And video in '85 and public radio in the early '80s.

  

  Francesca da Rimini
  • Art
  • Working
  • Researcher

• People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: Its just the way I sound when I sing.

  

  Michael Franks
  • People
  • Just
  • Answer

• If it comes to a choice between being a good soldier and a good human being -- try to be a good human being.

  

  Anton Myrer
  • Human
  • Choice
  • Soldier

• Tax and Tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

  

  Harry Hopkins
  • Tax
  • Spend
  • Elect

• One thing I think is interesting is the Jedi in the prequels are supposed to be peacekeepers, and certainly had a very artful way of making war. They had an artful way of defending themselves and inciting violence, really. You find that the Jedi who survived all of that had a much more simpler way of going about things.

  

  Samuel Witwer
  • War
  • Interesting
  • Violence

• Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

  

  Alfred Edersheim
  • Inward
  • Outward
  • Looker