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Quotes About Shaping

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.
~ Lois Lowry, The Giver
Shaping ideas requires long-term interaction with long-range goals and 100 percent saturation.
~ Tedd Tripp
Our central objective in instruction, discipline and correction is heart change, not behavior change. This profoundly shapes how we view consequences.
~ Tedd Tripp
Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.
~ John Ortberg
The man molds the idol and then the idol molds the man.
~ Adrian Rogers
Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.
~ I. F. Stone
Men are born, and then they're formed.
~ John Marston
But the fate of AMD's production capabilities would end up shaping the chip industry—and guaranteeing that the most advanced chipmaking would take place offshore.
~ Chris Miller
looking up at the stars, he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a tool. One's own life: an instrument for the shaping of the world.
~ Laini Taylor
One's own life: an instrument for the shaping of the world.
~ Laini Taylor
he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a tool. One's own life: an instrument for shaping the world.
~ Laini Taylor
We can't shape what we don't understand, and what we don't understand and use ends up shaping us.
~ Catarina Mota
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
All this I knew, and yet it was a different thing, to learn it from Delaunay: not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day. When I understood this, Delaunay said, I might begin to understand.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Mind is the Master power that molds and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:— He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking-glass.
~ James Allen
Mind is the Master-power that moulds and makes. And Man is Mind and evermore he takes The Tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills :— He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass ; Environment is but his looking-glass.
~ James Allen
And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes. The Tool of thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills;- He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking-glass.
~ James Allen
In our view, corporations resemble nations in that they reflect the accumulation of past events and the shaping force of underlying genetics that have roots in prior generations.
~ James C. Collins
The truth is that our unconscious minds are active, purposeful, and independent. Hidden they may be, but their effects are anything but, for they play a critical role in shaping the way our conscious minds experience and respond to the world.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
I don't want to feel what I'm creating on film has an outcome that is preordained. I don't think of the world as a place with a divinity that shapes our end. What you try to do with film is create, as far as you possibly can, an unfolding present - a theatre in which an outcome happens and is tested.
~ Paul Greengrass
Children can be shaped into any way one desires.
~ Anonymous
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Cultivating your imagination is vital to shaping your life; and faith is a big part of doing that.
~ Terri Savelle Foy
a type of radiation emitted by the Sun, ultraviolet (UVR), is believed to cause genetic changes in the developing baby that may have a shaping effect on their life and personality.
~ Theresa Cheung