Proximity Principle Quotes & Sayings

In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master. — Vasily Smyslov

Now is the time to recall the enthusiasm of our first fervor, the determination to offer ourselves unreservedly, and at the same time to let go of the craving for emotional consolation, — Monks Of New Skete

Holy fuck. What a buncha stupid white boys. Why don't they just invite the whole fucking police force into the bar? Avery this has gotta stop. Like now — H.M. Ward

A warrior's most precious gift to society, after his skills and prowess, is his ability to pass on his greatness. As if we'd risk having future generations of virile perfection exposed to injury. — Eve Langlais

We resonate with one another's sorrows because we are interconnected. Being whole and simultaneously part of a larger whole, we can change the world simply by changing ourselves. If I become a center of love and kindness in this moment, then in a perhaps small but hardly insignificant way, the world now has a nucleus of love and kindness it lacked the moment before. This benefits me and it benefits others. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

To get it done
and see it thru,
find less to say
and more to do. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Bayes's theorem and that looks like this: People who understand Bayes's theorem can use it to work out complex problems involving probability distributions - or inverse probabilities, as they are sometimes called. — Bill Bryson

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. — Bill Cosby

We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love. — Audre Lorde

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it. — Zora Neale Hurston

The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again — Charles Finch

All the birds had flown away, save only the great, grotesque penguins. — H.P. Lovecraft

Why does He hate the goats so much?'
[...]
'I'm not sure,' I said. 'He only seems to like sheep. — Joanna Cannon