#magnify

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#effects #failures #frustrating #ineffectual #largely

A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#away #behind #blazes #both #dew

. . . meekness,love, purity, these are the things that should magnify us. ↗

— Joseph Smith Jr.

#magnify #meekness #purity #love

Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#been #do you know #hearing #imagining #know

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#glasses #greatest #his #look #magnifying

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead. ↗

— Tom Ridge

#each #empower #empowered #enable #extension

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better. ↗

— Fred Allen

#better #even #good #magnify #press

We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It's really much more similar than anyone thinks or how we show it. ↗

— Amanda Bynes

#between #difference #dress #english #how

The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art. ↗

— Montgomery Clift

#art #audience #enlarge #enough #glass

Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it. ↗

— Toba Beta

#inferiority #life #magnify #overconfidence #risk