Shape Quotes

“Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!”
― Steve Maraboli

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“When our mental functioning is whittling away and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not form the context anymore and all connections on the social chessboard are conked out. Only patience and endurance may draw us out of the quagmire of numbness and allow us to tear open the cloudy screen that is hiding our points of ‘interest’ and ‘attention’, so long as we focus on the ‘singular moments’ and the ‘appealing details’ in our life. Awareness can help us shape a comprehensive picture for a functional future. (" Lost the global story. ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“One of the strangest things is the act of creation.

You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block of stone or wood, a silent musical instrument.

You then look inside yourself. You pull and tug and squeeze and fish around for slippery raw shapelessthingsthat swim like fish made of cloud vapor and fill you with living clamor. You latch onto something. And you bring it forth out of your head like Zeus giving birth to Athena.

And as it comes out, it takes shape and tangible form.

It drips on the canvas, and slides through your pen, it springs forth and resonates into the musical strings, and slips along the edge of the sculptor’s tool onto the surface of the wood or marble.

You have given it cohesion. You have brought forth something ordered and beautiful out of nothing.

You have glimpsed the divine.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“I used to think when I was younger and writing that each idea had a certain shape and when I started to study Greek and I found the word morphe it was for me just the right word for that, unlike the word shape in English which falls a bit short morphe in greek means the sort of plastic contours that an idea has inside your all your senses when you grasp it the first moment and it always seemed to me that a work should play out that same contour in its form. So I can’t start writing something down til I get a sense of that, that morphe. And then it unfolds, I wouldn’t say naturally, but it unfolds gropingly by keeping only to the contours of that form whatever it is.”
― Anne Carson

“My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.”
― Raquel Welch, Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage

“The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.”
― Vera Nazarian

“I can wait for life to shape me in whatever manner it chooses. Or I can shape me to make life whatever I choose.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“History and man made each other.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sometimes life is hard... so we have to squeeze it, touch it, play with it, and make it soft like a dough! Now it's soft enough to be shaped in any way we want! Keep moving, touching life, as this will keep it smooth and fun!”
― Karina Fonseca Azevedo

“Oneness is not sameness.”
― Lois Farfel Stark, The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times

“Why is it that they can only come up with one model of spaceship? You would assume such intelligent creatures could, once in a while, put out something in a nice powder blue and shaped like a footstool or maybe like France.”
― Cuthbert Soup, Another Whole Nother Story

“Life into death—
Life’s other shape,
No rupture,
Only crossing.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987

“Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“My feelings, my race,
my smiles in my face
Are craving the same
Allure, spark and aim
To love and be loved.
While freedom’s rhymes write
Life stories in spite
Of all our roots, colours, and shapes.
We all own the grace
From our mom earth,
Amazingly embraced
In a powerful togetherness.”
― Simona Prilogan, Love is Young: Poems

“He who cannot shape himself first can never shape the world!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Even in the driest desert a rainstorm could strike with little warning, and a jinni caught in the rain was in mortal danger. For no matter what shape a jinni might assume, be it human or animal or its own true shape of no shape at all, it was still a living spark of fire, and could easily be extinguished.”
― Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni

“Visualization shapes art.
Visualization turns abstract dreams into a reality.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“the most traumatized are the ones who shape our culture like a microbiologist shapes clay on their lunch break after looking at too many cultures,' the skunk explained.”
― J.S. Mason, A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites

“Thoughts shape around company.”
― Monoariatw

“Spots can be any shape that you want, but a leopard will still have spots regardless of shape.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“My thoughts shape your world and turn it into what you see.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Every tattoo radiates an overall
energy frequency, and its individual
elements such as color, size, shape, and symbology radiate their own energies as well. Learning about these individual elements of tattoos is empowering, as you can use this important knowledge to construct a better car, bake a tastier cake, or win more games,
so to speak.

When we see tattoos and art in general as dynamic energies radiating from their various elements, all art suddenly takes on considerably more value than just the personal meaning we attach to it.”
― Cary G. Weldy, The Power of Tattoos: Twelve Hidden Energy Secrets of Body Art Every Tattoo Enthusiast Should Know

“Situation exist to shape the course of travel in this life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Dreams are the clay through which we mold our art.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“We navigate the world largely by recognizing the edges or boundaries between objects which brings shape into the realm of the tangible, connecting it strongly to our sense of physicality and touch.”
― Joshua Field, An Illustrated Field Guide to the Elements and Principles of Art + Design

“Bah. They’ve never been good enough for you. Look at what they did to you. Stifled your magic because they didn’t know what it was. Tried to force you into a circle when you’re clearly a star.”
― Rory Miles, Twilight Terrors

“Adversity prunes the pages of growth and prosperity in the book of your life. You only have to determine how you shape each page.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte