Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone. — George Bernard Shaw
Etch your vision in stone-but sketch your strategy in pencil. — Steven Furtick
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone. — John McPhee
Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone. — Max Lucado
Life is a blank canvas; you decide what to paint on it. — Mexican Proverbs
Stone by stone, makes a wall, wall by wall makes a castle. — Albanian Proverbs
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. — Carl Sandburg
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. — Benjamin Franklin
If people throw stones at you, pick 'em up and build something. — LeCrae
The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms. — John Wesley Powell
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones. — Julius Charles Hare
Short Slate Quotes
When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax. — Robert Moses
Regardless of your past, your tomorrow is a clean slate. — Zig Ziglar
Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate — Ray Charles
Man will become better when you show him what he is like. — Anton Chekhov
We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate. — Jerry Bridges
I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want. — Tobey Maguire
Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up. — Erik Larson
No judge writes on a wholly clean slate. — Felix Frankfurter
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative. — Ben Kingsley
Everybody starts with a clean slate only altered by unnecessary hate. — Melanie Chisholm
Blank Slate Quotes
I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs. — Juan Cole
The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero. — Steven Pinker
When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti. — Wayne LaPierre
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream. — Steven Pinker
We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us. — Sayings
Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film. — James Cameron
The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either. — Alison Gopnik
As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean. — Jeanne Moreau
The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative Christians, meaning people you're not supposed to hire. And these are the people who carp about George Bush's alleged lack of intellectual curiosity. — Ann Coulter
There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness. — Candace Bushnell
Fresh Slate Quotes
I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over. — Kristin Armstrong
Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity. — Gretchen Rubin
Count yourself lucky, how happy you must be - you get a fresh start, your slate's wiped clean. Count yourself lucky - God holds nothing against you and you're holding nothing back from Him. — Eugene H. Peterson
What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa. — Audrey Niffenegger
Clean Slate Quotes
Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion. — George Macdonald
Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking. — Frederick Buechner
If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly. — Namie Amuro
You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax. — Robert Moses
Every day when a man or woman gets dressed, they are in effect defining who they are. That daily clean slate is a time in our lives when we can determine who we want to be. — Kenneth Cole
You have a clean slate every day you wake up. You have a chance every single morning to make that change and be the person you want to be. You just have to decide to do it. Decide today’s the day. Say it: this is going to be my day. — Brendon Burchard
So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday! — Abigail Van Buren
You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience. — Cillian Murphy
What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over. — Margaret Mitchell
I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane. — Michael Caine
Blank Slates Quotes
Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop. — Roshon Fegan
A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better. — Chuck Palahniuk
Thus, true long-term change is brought about not by destructive passion of the moment but by well-reasoned constructive action. Violent shock of Armageddon that leaves nothing in its wake but a blank slate is not a solution, only a postponement of progress. — Vera Nazarian
With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution. — Steven Pinker
I've heard some designers talk about the design process being centred on invention, starting with a blank slate. I admire that and occasionally I'm capable of that, but I have to admit that I really have trouble working with completely open briefs. — Michael Bierut
The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface. — Vera Nazarian
Life is just a blank slate, what matters most is what you write on it. — Christine Frankland
It was a lot of fun to play a character [in Swiss Army Man] with no inhibitions, and with no knowledge of the world, and who comes into the world kind of like a blank slate. It means there's no template or blueprint for how you need to play certain scenes. — Daniel Radcliffe
You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere. — Rob Brown
It is so hard for musicians when they step into acting is they're not coming in as a blank slate, they're coming in with a real set idea of who they are, where they're coming from, what their politics are, what their tastes are. — Shirley Manson
Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house. — Benjamin Britten
When you’re seeking modest improvement in what exists, you start working with the same tools and assumptions, the same mental framework on which the old technology is based. But when the challenge is to move ahead by a factor of ten, you start with a blank slate. When you commit to a moonshot, you fall in love with the problem, not the product. You commit to the mission before you even know that you have the ability to reach it. And you set audacious goals. — Mo Gawdat
We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated! — Peter Hook
Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have a slate of four films. From Karen Young - the USA bestselling author - we have Blood Bayou. Again, we're relying on the story to tell itself and the characters tell it and not (relying on) shock value. It's a suspenseful drama...The best way I can describe it is Pelican Brief meets Time to Kill. — Drew Waters
People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organisations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear. — L. Ron Hubbard
Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed — Jodi Picoult
The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo. — Mark Twain
With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you just have to discipline yourself to wipe the slate clean as you go along. — Luke Evans
America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past. — Mary McCarthy
The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say 'charge it.' 'Put it on the slate.' The Savior will pay it. In this way, rascality is sold on credit, and the credit system in morals, as in business, breeds extravagance. — Robert Green Ingersoll
My first car was in 2006 when I got on my first TV show - a BMW 328i2 four-door sedan in slate grey. That was a great day, that was. — Rebecca Mader
Y'see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job. — Carl Hiaasen
I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely. — David Talbot
I got to college and saw all of my friends going to these other schools and thought, 'You know, college is just a blank slate.' And I had an opportunity to go to different schools, but I chose Brown because it was unique and allowed you to be yourself as an individual and like I said, it's a blank slate. — Masi Oka
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