Grasp the subject, the words will follow. — Cato The Elder
Rise above oneself and grasp the world. — Archimedes
Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related. — Jerome Bruner
You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool. — Augusten Burroughs
On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp. — Gabriel Marcel
Grab this day by the neck and kiss it. — Bill Murray
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. — Abraham Lincoln
When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go. — Carol Burnett
Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. — Bulgarian Proverbs
Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open. — Corrie Ten Boom
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it. — Confucius
Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist. — Alistair Begg
You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you. — Clive Davis
Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers. — Henry David Thoreau
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. — Diane Arbus
Short Grasp Quotes
People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images. — Rene Magritte
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. — Paul Tillich
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. — Elizabeth Bowen
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount. — Omar N. Bradley
Nobody has really grasped yet the great wealth that can be made selling data over the Web. — Michael Saylor
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. — Daniel Webster
Grasp all, lose all. — Hungarian Proverbs
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. — Doug Larson
I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind. — Mikhail Tal
There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save — Thomas S. Monson
Grasp Image Quotes
Grasp Life Quotes
No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts. — Bob Proctor
I've never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have heard many saints say every significant advance I've ever made in grasping in the depth of God's love and growing deep with Him, have come through suffering. — John Piper
Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp. — Georgia O'Keeffe
The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view,
his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world. — Bronislaw Malinowski
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms. — Viktor E. Frankl
Hand
Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
And great hearts expand
And grow one in the sense of this world's life. — Robert Browning
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. — Hugh Sidey
What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here? — Goldie
Along your pathway of life you will observe that you are not the only traveler. There are others who need your help. There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save. — Thomas S. Monson
Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope. — Bob Marley
You may train for a long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump up and down like a puppet, learning karate is not very different from learning a dance. You will never have reached the heart of the matter; you will have failed to grasp the quintessence of karate-do. — Gichin Funakoshi
Your most important skill isn’t even what you majored in or even what you studied, it’s just knowing how to learn. If you have a good grasp of mathematics and if you like to read, there’s nothing you can’t learn on your own. — Naval Ravikant
You can grasp the truth that power over your time isn’t something best hoarded entirely for yourself: that your time can be too much your own. — Oliver Burkeman
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology. — Deepak Chopra
The firmer your grasp on reality, the more power you will have to alter it for your purposes. — 50 Cent
There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target of a violent crime with lethal force. This is not a sense of power, it is now the experience of escaping from a sense of powerlessness. — John Longenecker
Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities — Danica Patrick
You cannot find what you do not seek. You cannot grasp when you do not reach. Your dreams won't come up to your front door. You have got to take a leap if you want to soar. — Cory Booker
Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it. — Paul Hindemith
One Grasp Quotes
What?” I said defensively, clutching the mink and my dignity. Since I was barefoot, mostly naked and completely hungover, I was pretty sure I grasped only one of them. — Karen Chance
Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned. — Buddha
If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread. — Adrienne Rich
All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion. — Abdurrahman Wahid
Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die. — Kato Kiyomasa
There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one's own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, with men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view. — Thomas Huxley
It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles. — Charlie Munger
I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him. — Stephen King
Grasp The Day Quotes
Things of the spirit are what count: brotherhood – in a day when there is too much hatred at home and abroad; cheerfulness – in a day when the pessimists have the floor and cynics are popular; service – in a day when millions are interested in getting or grasping, rather than giving — E. Urner Goodman
Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper. — Swami Vivekananda
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. — Abraham Lincoln
Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry. — Thomas Paine
Sometimes we let our thoughts of tomorrow take up too much of today. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present. This is the day of our opportunity, and we must grasp it — Thomas S. Monson
The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything. — C. S. Lewis
Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control. — Jack Henry Abbott
Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe. — Tony Snow
I see a comparison between the two [Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump]. Peace through strength. What Chris Matthews don't grasp is that day Donald Trump gave a speech in which he said he's going to build the U.S. military up to Ronald Reagan levels. — Rudy Giuliani
Hard, withering toil only can achieve a name; and long days and months and years must be passed in the chase of that bubble, reputation, which, when once grasped, breaks in your eager clutch into a hundred lesser bubbles, that soar above you still. — Donald Grant Mitchell
Grasp The Moment Quotes
In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art. — Marcel Marceau
Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden reaches man arose. The green world is his sacred center. In moments of sanity he must still seek refuge there. — Loren Eiseley
It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed, like a ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind. — Paul Ryan
Let us each grasp a new idea this year. Let us grasp the awareness of what it is that makes us truly happy. Let us consider our personal preferences and learn how to recognize, then embrace, moments of happiness that are uniquely our own. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. — Arnold Bennett
The only times that we can have what we long for are those moments when we stop grasping for it. At such times, all things are possible: "to a mind that is 'still' the whole universe surrenders". — Sheldon B. Kopp
One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall;Some are coming, some are going;Do not strive to grasp them all. — Adelaide Proctor
I don't think in the past. I don't think in the future. You grasp the moment. — Eli Manning
The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one's grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible. — E. A. Bucchianeri
What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men. — Irving Kaufman
Grasp The Opportunity Quotes
Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain. — B. C. Forbes
I believe the sense of lost opportunity is rooted in a faulty understanding of God's grace. Likewise, when grace is grasped and embraced, the Land of Opportunity becomes yours again. — David Jeremiah
You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you're bold and if you're ready to aggressively reach for our future, all the ingredients are here. The opportunities are waiting for us. — Dirk Kempthorne
In this digital age, it doesn't really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there are opportunities waiting to be grasped by entrepreneurs. — Richard Branson
People should allow themselves the opportunity to really know what the unity of God means. To grasp a part of the nondivisible union is to grasp the whole. — Baal Shem Tov
The opportunity of a lifetime must be grasped within the lifetime of that opportunity. — Catherine DeVrye
Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege. — Deborah Sampson
Youth of the Church, the world is in need of your help. There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save. The harvest truly is great. Let there be no mistake about it; the missionary opportunity of a lifetime is yours. — Thomas S. Monson
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. All the opportunities in the world are waiting to be grasped by people who are in love with what they're doing. — Samuel Goldwyn
I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp. — Ernest Holmes
Happiness, I have grasped, is a destination, like strawberry Fields. Once you find the way in, there you are, and you'll never feel low again. — Rachel Simon
Most of the problems of the world stems from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence. — Shams Tabrizi
When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. [] Thus I also grasped that the empty spaces are the most important aspect of a typeface. — Adrian Frutiger
Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world. — John Piper
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. — Carl Sagan
Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so, and if, in addition, we set a worthy example and a marat on pace in probity, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice, the people will follow, all too readily, in our footsteps. — Obafemi Awolowo
Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might. — Charles Spurgeon
When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it. — Rumi
Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing. — Ajahn Chah
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy. — Margaret Thatcher
I'm not into religion, but I have a good grasp on my spirituality. I just believe that I'm not the greatest power on this earth. I didnt create myself, because I would have done a hell of a better job. — Layne Staley
The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society. — Murray Rothbard
If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing. — Dogen
We have to grasp not only the Know-How but also 'Know Why', if we want to master the Toyota Production System. — Shigeo Shingo
A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning of such power); it subsequently becomes dominant when it exercises power, but even if it holds it firmly in its grasp, it must continue to 'lead' as well. — Antonio Gramsci
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. — Frantz Fanon
The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. — Fran Lebowitz
The Yap Island chiefs who refused O’Keefe’s cheap Rai stones understood what most modern economists fail to grasp: a money that is easy to produce is no money at all, and easy money does not make a society richer; on the contrary, it makes it poorer by placing all its hard-earned wealth for sale in exchange for something easy to produce. — Saifedean Ammous
The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise. — C. Wright Mills
Nobody has really grasped yet the great wealth that can be made selling data over the Web. There are 100 million potential customers out there. — Michael Saylor
Once you stop believing that it might somehow be possible to avoid hard choices about time, it gets easier to make better ones. You begin to grasp that when there’s too much to do, and there always will be, the only route to psychological freedom is to let go of the limit-denying fantasy of getting it all done and instead to focus on doing a few things that count. — Oliver Burkeman
Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of - and which, if wrested away without the substitution of another something in its place, would leave a void and a vacancy as painful to the mind, as hunger is to the natural system.... The heart must have something to cling to. — Thomas Chalmers
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep. — Zhuangzi
The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it. So why bother with attempting to establish an illusion of solid ground? — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails. — Gustav Holst
My wife understood a crucial spiritual principle I'd yet to grasp. You can stand in the light. And you can set a positive example. But you simply cannot make someone change. — Rich Roll
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