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  • History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

    James Harvey Robinson (1912). “The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook”
  • When I stay focused and honest about who I am and the image that I hope to portray, then I won't find myself stranded in unfamiliar territory chasing money or popularity. If the work that you do is quality, then you'll be rewarded. It's also good to stretch musically within the realm of your ability, but not if it compromises your integrity.

  • Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

    Book   Keys   Castles  
    Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors”, p.23, Schocken
  • I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.

    Source: writerunboxed.com
  • Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary.

    Vocabulary   Sound   Doe  
    "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.
  • Most medical personnel remain largely unfamiliar with non-medical treatments, and tend to dismiss them without knowing about what they're dismissing. This is a great loss to the doctor as well as to the public.

    Loss   Doctors   Knowing  
    "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.
  • There is no right or wrong angle for something. The idea of putting the camera in an unfamiliar position is simply to do with film language. Sometimes it is spectacular, sometimes it is ugly, sometimes it is uninteresting.

    Ideas   Cameras   Ugly  
    Source: www.artmonthly.co.uk
  • Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.

  • When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along.

    Dog   Heart   Eye  
  • A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.

    Dream   Creative   Vision  
  • ...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

    Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.615, Penguin
  • You make sexiness strong by balancing it out: something familiar with something unfamiliar, something masculine with something feminine, something streamlined with something rococo. It's a Yin and Yang. Women are made of layers, your mood shifts, no one is neither one extreme nor the other.

    Strong   Yang   Layers  
    "Michael Kors Talks Kim Kardashian and Bar Mitzvah Fashion in Shanghai". Interview with Alice Pfeiffer, www.elle.com. May 14, 2014.
  • She looked up from closing it to find Jace watching her through hooded eyes. “And one last thing,” he said. He reached over and pulled the sparking pins out of her hair, so that it fell in warm heavy curls down her neck. The sensation of hair tickling her bare skin was unfamiliar and oddly pleasant. “Much better,” he said, and she thought this time that maybe his voice was uneven too.

    Eye   Hair   Voice  
  • Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

    Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.24, Vintage
  • There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

    Law   Ears   Aliens  
    Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”
  • The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

    Lying   Love Is   Fire  
    Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 4 (1942)
  • The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

    Merit   Language   Chiefs  
    Galen (1916). “Galen On the Natural Faculties”
  • When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.

    Talking   Doe   Want  
    Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown
  • When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

    Source: www.biblestudytools.com
  • It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons. It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.

    Beautiful   Sports   Eye  
    E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.361, Delphi Classics
  • In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.

    Art   Men   Order  
  • Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

    Cyril Falls (1943). “Ordeal by Battle”
  • Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.

    Source: blogs.edweek.org
  • The tendency of modern American women to exclaim 'Hiiiiiiiiiiii!' in soprano octaves and hug each other upon sight can be disconcerting to those unfamiliar with it.

    Sight   Hug   Sopranos  
  • Say goodbye to a world where you cannot breathe/ To hiding behind unfamiliar skin/ To singing songs never knowing what they mean/ Now this is the way it was meant to be/ Be still and listen to the rising and falling/ Knowledge is power and I never knew me till now.

    Goodbye   Song   Fall  
  • Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup

    Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.102, Penguin
  • There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.

  • If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in it with the known. If it be inhuman, make it figure as part of a story. If it be difficult, couple its acquisition with some prospect of personal gain. Above all things, make sure that it shall run through certain inner changes, since no unvarying object can possibly hold the mental field for long.

    "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".
  • Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.

    Water   Silence   Black  
    Philip Larkin (2012). “The Less Deceived”, p.12, Faber & Faber
  • The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our experience into those particular regions and to leave the others to themselves. We seek out those parts that are known and familiar and avoid those that are unknown and unfamiliar. This is simply what is called 'Applied Science.'

    Science   Law   Research  
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