Quotes About Shaping

I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.

Reddit, which calls itself 'The Front Page of the Internet,' is more influential in shaping Internet culture than its comparatively small reach would lead you to believe.

Part of the pleasure of editing 'Vogue,' one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine, is being able to feature those who define the culture at any given moment, who stir things up, whose presence in the world shapes the way it looks and influences the way we see it.

People probably have different philosophies about this, but I think that when you're first shaping the play and trying to find a character, the initial actors that develop it end up imprinting on it - you hear their voices; you hear their rhythms. You can't help but to begin to write toward them during the rehearsal process.

All the moments I've had in the last 10, 15 years as a player have maybe shaped me to where I am today. But the way I live my life, the way I think I want to be positive, happy, to have experiences that I can look back on.

I'd never contemplated being in TV and film. But I love working with athletes and talent and shaping great stories.

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

In Rome, I was already trying to help in shaping the game, but the style was a little bit different to what we do at Liverpool.

Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

I am still soft, and I can be like wax in your hands. Take me, give me a form, finish me.

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

A calling is simply God's shaping of your burden and beckoning you to your service to him in the place and pursuit of his choosing.

Sometimes in the shadows of one's self lie the problems, and in the shadows of one's shaping lie the answers.

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

There was a silence gathered all about that fire and the silence was in the men's faces, and time was there, time enough to sit by this rusting track under the trees, and look at the world and turn it over with the eyes, as if it were held to the center of the bonfire, a piece of steel these men were all shaping.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

The media do not just shape what the public is interested in, but also are shaped by it.

To all viewers but yourself, what matters is the product: the finished artwork. To you, and you alone, what matters is the process: the experience of shaping that artwork. The viewers' concerns are not your concerns (although it's dangerously easy to adopt their attitudes.) Their job is whatever it is: to be moved by art, to be entertained by it, to make a killing off it, whatever. Your job is to learn to work on your work.

Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

Mart had been of the total conviction that life was wholly soluble in terms of the external world. If a man had something good and useful to do in shaping the world to his own dream, he would be a sane and happy man.

You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.