U.G. Krishnamurti
Philosopher
"Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque."
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Timothy Keller
Pastor, Author
"The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His."
Ashley Graham
Model
"I felt free, once I realized i was never going to fit the narrow mold that society wanted me to fit in."
Haile Selassie
Emperor
"We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history."
Bruce Springsteen
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"When they built you brother they broke the mold."
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"I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point."
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"He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. [Ger., Aber wer fest auf dem Sinne beharrt, der bildet die Welt sich.]"
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"Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them."
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"Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve."
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"Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact."
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"Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it."
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"[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within."
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"The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself."
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"Only while they are conforming their actions to the model of some archetypal hero do the Arunta feel that they are truly alive, for in those roles they are immortal. The occasions on which they slip from such molds are quite meaningless, for time immediately devours those occasions and reduces them to nothingness."
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"I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type."
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"Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life."
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"God made me and broke the mold."
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"Fortuitous circumstances constitute the molds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate."
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"I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus."
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"He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself."
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"Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves."
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"I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing."
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"The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies."
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"He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make."
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"I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either."
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