#grasped

I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#behave #calm #composed #fascinating #father

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#contemplation #grasped #only #world

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#grasped #journalism #literature #once #read

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. ↗

— Jean Kerr

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#contemplation #cutting #cutting edge #edge #grasped

They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#crisis #distress #feed #forty #grasped

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #faith #finite #grasped #infinite

The thing that's caught me off guard is going to dinner and people asking me for autographs or to take a picture. People coming to my house asking for autographs - that's something I really haven't grasped the whole entirety of yet. ↗

— Johnny Manziel

#autographs #caught #coming #dinner #entirety

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. ↗

— David Grayson

#everything #grasped #heart #him #his