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the point
«I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.»
«In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.»
«All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Discovery,
Truth,
Understanding
| Keywords:
the point, truths
«I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.»
Author: Michael Caine
| About:
Actors and acting,
Talent
| Keywords:
actor, professional, skilled, talent, the point, The Professionals
«Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions»
«Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| Keywords:
director, directors, extremely, fate, mysterious, opponent, point, Point of, soundlessness, subtle, subtler, subtlest, thereby, The Director, the point, to the point
«Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
adventurous, although, appears, barn, barns, broad, broads, climbing, connections, creating, destroying, discovering, environment, erecting, erects, forms, gained, gaining, masteries, mastery, mountain, mountain climbing, Obstacles, points, skyscraper, skyscrapers, smaller, started, starting, theory, The Connection, the point, tiny, unexpected, view, views, wider
«In brief, she assumed that, being a man, I was vain to the point of imbecility, and this assumption was correct, as it always is»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
assumed, assumption, brief, correct, imbecility, in brief, the point, to the point, vain
«A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.»
Author: Robert Frost
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, doubtful, Eccentricities, eccentricity, Point of, sanity, the point, tolerates, tolerating, to the point
«Have common sense and stick to the point.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
common sense, stick, stick to, the point, to the point