Quotes of Harness - somelinesforyou

“ They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice. ”

- Donald O’Connor

“ Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner. ”

- Cher

“ I think, myself, it is harder for two artists, both ambitious, both temperamental, both perhaps egotistical, to jog along equably in the necessarily restraining atmosphere of a double harness. ”

- Conrad Veidt

“ Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people. ”

- Matt Blunt

“ The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away. ”

- Walter Wriston

“ Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. ”

- Tom Blandi

“ A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness. ”

- Robert Cecil

“ Capitalism harnesses human self-interest; socialism exhausts itself trying to kill it. ”

- Linda Bowles

“ Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. ”

- Bible

“ The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire. ”

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“ Whenever at an accusation blind rage burns up within us, the reason is that some arrow has pierced the joints of our harness. Behind our shining armor of righteous indignation lurks a convicted and only half-repentant sinner… and we may be almost sure some sharp and bitter grain of truth lurks within it, and the wound is best probed. ”

- Jane Harrison

“ Humanity will require mega-missions for harnessing solar energy, drinking water from seawater through the desalination process and bringing minerals from other planets. In such a situation, the present reasons for conflict will become insignificant and unwarranted. ”

- Abdul Kalam

“ The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers. ”

- Evan G. Galbraith

“ Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster. ”

- Al Gore

“ Quantum computation is… a distinctively new way of harnessing nature… It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes. ”

- David Deutsch

“ Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. ”

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“ Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire. ”

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“ From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics, and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame. ”

- Henry Adams

“ Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces. ”

- Joseph Sugarman

“ What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion… ”

- Henry Miller
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