Quotes About Shaping

Vision is critical to lead change. Vision statements are likewise important in the process. But leaders who shape a vision without a foundation of hope are not doing the church any favors. Such is the reason I shared the hope factor first.

I love the experience of getting to direct because I can have all of the fun of helping shape the show, but I don't have to actually do it, so I don't have to deal with the nerves.

Maybe the silence you move through shaped me, the way a church bell ringing resonates long after the ear ceases to perceive it, the way waves space themselves until they stop. — Nick Flynn, from "Man Dancing with a Paper Cup," Some Ether: Poems . (Graywolf Press June 2, 2015)

You can only shape the experiences that are important to your customers when you understand who you are really competing with.

As a twig is bent the tree inclines.

There are two - parallel - universes of science. One is the actual day-to-day work of scientists, patiently researching into all parts of the world and sometimes making amazing discoveries. The other is the role science plays in the public imagination - the powerful effect it has in shaping how millions of ordinary people see the world.

This was the perfect day of his childhood. This the day to shape the days upon.

Life is made up of patterns. Patterns of eating, thirst, sleep, and fight-or-flight are crucial to our individual survival; patterns of courtship, sex, attachment, conflict, play, creativity, family life, and collaboration are crucial to our collective survival. Wisdom is our ability to perceive these patterns and to shape them into coherent chapters within the longer narrative of our lives.

We must remember that our children are very much what we make them.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

a conviction of exceptionalism and superiority that seems vindicated by the facts, and thenceforth, circularly, shapes perception of the facts. We rule the world because we are superior; we are superior because we rule the world.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Because culture is learned socially, we generally think of social structure as a driver of culture, but these examples suggest the reverse, that cultural behavior can shape society.

In all cultures mothers try to shape sons in their female image. For their own good. The boys resist—and the rite of passage helps this resistance. There is always symbolism involved, because symbols are a way to represent the myths that underlie every culture.

Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

The police genre is capable of holding and shaping many forms of storytelling.

While history has its limitations in shaping contemporaneous and forward-looking strategic choices, it does shape popular perceptions.

I desperately want to talk to her now. I want to ask her who it was who so deftly crafted and shaped the legend that was our love.

we learn the emotional habits that can undermine our best intentions, as well as what we can do to subdue our more destructive or self-defeating emotional impulses. Most important, the neurological data suggest a window of opportunity for shaping our children's emotional habits.

Goldin-Meadow and her colleagues found that when the experimental subjects gestured during their explanation, they later remembered more from the word list than when they did not gesture. She noted that while people tend to think of gesturing as reflecting an individual's mental state, it appears that gesture contributes to shaping that state. In the case of her subjects, their gesturing somehow lightened the mental load, allowing them to devote more resources to memory.

Foreign policy is in danger of turning into a subdivision of domestic politics instead of an exercise in shaping the future.

When you offer yourself to God as His servant, He first expects to shape you into the instrument of His choosing. He will always work in you before He works through you.

We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

We are all prisoners of our past. It shapes and defines us and can no more be forgotten than changed.