- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Distance Quotes
How distance changes what we see and feel.
Several of these quotes treat distance as a matter of perspective - a fairy-land view of literature that loses its charm on closer approach, and a photographer describing every horizon as revealing another beyond it. See Far quotes for a related angle.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The message of 'The Distance To Here' is no secret. It is a message of love and an invitation to myself and to those who want to come along to ask the big questions and not feel uncool doing it.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of a 'happening' is that there is little distance between the viewer and it, whatever 'it' is. It's an experience that's on-going and evolving.
- Nov 07, 2020
Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
- Nov 07, 2020
You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
My introduction to dissociation had been at Kenneth Cooper's clinic in January of 1975. Cooper had assembled a gaggle of top American distance runners and a half dozen top researchers, the intent being to figure out what the difference was - physiologically, biomechanically, psychologically - between elite and subelite runners.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fartlek, or speed play, is variable-pace running that emphasizes creativity. During a 30-minute run, choose objects to run to - telephone poles, trees, buildings, other runners, whatever. Make choices that mark off different distances, so your pickups vary in length from 15 to 90 seconds, and modify your pace to match the distance.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I'm not the girl who changes into flats because my feet are tired at the end of the night. I go the distance. I go all the way.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020