#shape

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#factory #important #ivory #rare #shapes

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#attachments #beliefs #beyond #districts #enjoy

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#environment #live #make #our #own

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#character #colored #come #contact #day

Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes. ↗

— Mother Maribel

#believe #brought #circumstances #comes #did

I think we'll be in pretty good shape. We've got the same car we ran in all the speedway races since 2001, and it's been a real good car for us. It's led every race we've been in. ↗

— Sterling Marlin

#car #every #good #got #i

I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#around #been #between #ceo #change

To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career. ↗

— Dorothy McGuire

#day #hollywood #i #know #shapes

The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#controls #difficult #element #fewer #higher

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#been #communicate #communication #content #media