Shifting quotes
86 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"There's so much more power, so you're short-shifting all the way down into fifth, sixth, seventh before you can get the full throttle. But great fun otherwise."
"Secondly, figures, the symbols of numerical magnitude, are frequently also the symbols of operations, as when they are the indices of powers. Wherever terms have a shifting meaning, independent sets of considerations are liable to become complicated together, and reasoning and results are frequently falsified."
"One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on, is the shifting meaning of many of the symbols used in mathematical notation. First, the symbols of operation are frequently also the symbols of the results of operations."
"Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight."
"I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word."
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"Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends."
"Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting."
"Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time."
"My moods are continuously shifting like the weather."
"If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth."
"That is death - shifting from "is" to "was."
"By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance."
"A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching."
"I prefer working out of strict continuity, because no normal human being can have a firm grip on the constantly shifting bardo-like territory of a comics universe, where entire histories can be erased by a strong enough super-sneeze."
"We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that's much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that."
