Quotes About Depth

You were inside my body, but somehow 'tis my soul you touched, Iain Mackinnon.

When I'm asked for the 'elevator speech' that sums up my work, I always respond, 'I always take the stairs, so I don't have an elevator speech. If you'd like to walk with me awhile, I'd love to talk.' I don't know of a life worth living or work worth doing that can be reduced to a sound bite." (40)

This book is for teachers who have good days and bad and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves... when you love your work that much, and many teachers do, the only way to get out of trouble is to go deeper in.

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe. -Super man

The sea is not a surface. It is, from top to bottom, an abyss. "If you want to cross the sea, sink.

Por qué la música es capaz de ir al fondo del dolor? Porque es allí donde ella mora.

Há uma noite irresistível no fundo do homem. Todas as noites, as mulheres e os homens adormecem. Mergulham na noite como se as trevas fossem uma recordação.

Il n'y avait que dans ses compositions qu'on découvrait la complexité et la délicatesse du monde qui était caché sous ce visage et derrière les gestes rares et rigides.

Nous sommes la première civilisation qui dispose d'un passé devenu immense. En 1940 personne ne connaissait les grottes de Lascaux et de Chauvet. En juillet dernier des chercheurs ont découvert un crâne vieux de sept cents millions d'années. La profondeur du temps a remplacé les dieux.

A relationship with our imagination is a relationship with our deepest self.

You think that you can walk on water Better be careful, it gets mighty deep

Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us." WALT DISNEY Katherine

To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children's books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their most likely readers…at least, not on their first read-through at age eight or ten or fifteen.

Travis would always be a nice man with a shallow character. On the other hand, Cade's character was as deep and dangerous as a river's currents. She

There is more to see than we have been permitted; there are heavens unseen behind the heavens of our perception.

Imagination, not reason, is the chief faculty of the soul.

Soul is what turns ordinary events into experiences; what imparts to the passing moment depth, connection, and resonance … The effect is unmistakable: an experience of stillness in our heads and, in our hearts, a fullness … Soul is what is transmitted and received in the experience that we call love.

We are more like a many-faceted whole, and it is our task in the course of a lifetime to realize each facet of our selves - a journey that is more likely to be downward, circular, and labyrinthine than upward, onward, and straight.

The way of soul, we notice, is downward rather than the upward flight of the mystic.

We cultivate soul by seeking depth, interiority, and connectedness - in short, by exercising imagination.

Instead of walling off a conversation and saying you'd rather talk about something else, you bring in a deeper and more comprehensive level of analysis. This highlights your intelligence, but it also highlights your emotional engagement.

Small talk allows us to have entire conversations where a lot is said, but at the same time, nothing at all is said.