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" Quotes and Sayings About wind

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Adjust Cannot Direct Sails
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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Notice Tree Crack Bend
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But neither can you condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on. You can never invite the wind but you must leave the window open.

Justify Alive Invite Wind
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Business World Rearview Mirror
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Let it be a bite of a cockroach and fly with the wind.

Bite Fly Wind With
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A tree does not move unless there is wind.
Tree Move There Wind
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Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.

Knock Home Alone Friend
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The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

Eye Creature Envious Snake
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Sail Safe Habor Catch
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The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Software Microsoft Successful Forward
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.

Window Reality Effect Music
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Years Dream Sail Safe
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Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

Solid Rock Even Wind
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The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love.

Wind Take Love Bring
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You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that’s why I’m scared when you say you love me.

Love Rain Walk Under
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He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

Agreed Conversation He Must
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We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

Rose Magical Blooming Garden
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“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”
Leader Adjustment Optimist Complains
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Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.

After Because Books Bus
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Remember Against Airplane Wind
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Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

Window Roll Spit Now
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We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

Summer's Ghost Warm September
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Enough Far Find First
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Me Metaphysics More Satisfies
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A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Smile Light Window That
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I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I'd do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it's as big as a garage.

Big Bite Bleed Closed
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

Almost Bed Before Gone
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I think fame is one of those things where you have a window of opportunity and you have a certain amount of trust from the fans and without that you don't have a career.

Fame Think One Things
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Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
Best Empty Left Unsaid
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Earthquake Fire Gentle Light
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When you start a company, it's a singular focus. You have the wind at your back.

Company Focus Singular Start
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Companies should not have a singular view of profitability. There needs to be a balance between commerce and social responsibility... The companies that are authentic about it will wind up as the companies that make more money.

Authentic Balance Between Commerce
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There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.

Because Building Company Energy
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Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

Angel Brains Case Clocks
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Against Anchor Drift Lie
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Every Knocks Other Out
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The furthest I have even thrown the ball was 85 yards. But I had a little wind at my back, so I don't claim that one.

Back Ball Claim Even
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At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

Awareness Bare Being Beneath
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Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

Awareness Bare Being Beneath
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Adultery Forgives Gospel Never
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The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

Compromise Devastating Lot Misfortune
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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Ever Free High Hope
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What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

Against Always Around Because
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Does Favorable Know Port
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Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Beyond Burns Earth Eternity
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I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

About Against Down Enthusiastic
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Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

Pilot Scripts Simply Time
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It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.

It Is Said That
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

Burns Call Department Down
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In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

Noses People Scent Small
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