Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.
Closed systems run down and get more chaotic over time. Always get better by being ‘open’ to outside energy and templates of better ways to function.
There are two smells that I can recognize right away. The smell of the boxing ring and the smell of a garage. That’s where I grew up. I can recognize these places with my eyes closed.
In England, ballet is kind of closed. They are opening up a little bit, but it was always something not for the general public. So you don’t get fame, like a football star or a film star. And if you don’t get fame, you can’t do other stuff.
I’ve stood in front of 500 extremely angry people in Waterford when we closed a call centre there. That’s not fun, and the day you think it is fun is the day you shouldn’t be doing it.
My first trip to China was in 1975 when my father was the ‘bicycling ambassador’ representing the U.S. in Beijing. This was a time towards the end of the Cultural Revolution where there were very few personal liberties, China was pretty much closed off to the West.
I delight to lodge in such temples as are not regularly kept closed. None of the gods reject me; they make me partner of their roof.
If you are the best in the world, and you believe you should be fighting for a title, I think it is important to get those things out. Because a closed mouth doesn’t get fed.
I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn’t in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed.
Personally, when things upset me, I get quiet and closed off. I have nothing to say, and a chill sets in while I think about what’s going on.
That all-too-common gap – between where the doctors, facilities and resources are based and where the individuals suffering from HIV live – had to be closed. This is what the Health Extension Program (HEP) was created to do.
The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.
We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
It is no secret that Louis van Gaal and I did not get along. But for me personally, the matter is closed and forgotten.
I’m not after a closed system, I mean I’m after a complicated system in structure, but as far as watching it, I don’t think that everything should be decided.
Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in ’69.
The old boys’ club of closed tennis court relationships is on the way out.
I was doing a Broadway musical called ‘Smile’ with Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch in 1984/5 when it abruptly closed. Howard was in the middle of pre-production for ‘The Little Mermaid,’ so he kindly invited all the girls in our cast to audition for the film.
Belarus is a closed, authoritarian system, and the theme of Chernobyl is also a closed topic.
I don’t really go to clubs anymore. I’m actually quite settled. Living in Highgate with my dog and my husband and my daughter! I’m not a hell-raiser. But don’t burst the bubble. Behind closed doors, for sure, I’m a hell-raiser.
You can kind of run drills and practice, rehab behind closed doors as much as you can, but there’s nothing that simulates being in front of a live audience with live TV cameras.
When I completed writing ‘Soul Mountain,’ I more or less closed the accounts with China for myself. I was 50 years old when I left, so China is already within me.
The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.
We need games like ‘A Closed World’ for many reasons. When you hear another developer talk about how games need to grow up, they need to tackle adult themes, and how they need to embrace that ability to transport the player into a different world, this is that game that they want other developers to make.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.
I remember Gayle King popped up on the screen, wearing a green dress – I’ll never forget it – to announce the best R&B album category and when she said my name I could not believe it. After that I closed my laptop. I didn’t need to hear anything else.
Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.
There’s a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.
What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.
I originally came out as gay when I was a teenager, then backtracked when I thought I had closed off the market a bit!
When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.
I think, in our life I think that when you are an actor, when you are a producer, you have to be very discreet about your personal life, and you have to be closed in, in harmony and in affection and in everything.
Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there’s a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it’s all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.
It’s a very intimate, closed universe, doing my own music. It’s just me, basically. I have to inspire myself; I have to do everything by myself.
I grew up black in segregated America, where it was hard to find an open door. It’s harder now for young blacks to find a closed one.
I became quite taken over by Johnson’s personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it.
When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn. There are also changes in your heart, your guts: they slow down. And there are hormonal changes.
Magic is, in its core, introverted and closed; it’s the most closed community ever, and I want to change all that and make it more open. If we want things to change, we have to be more open-minded.
I’m not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn’t to be rejected. My purpose isn’t to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
When the world changed, people were different. Towns closed, cities were boarded up, communities abandoned, their governments collapsed. They seemed to have no qualms that were obvious to you or me about walking away from what they called a useless pile of rubbish, and never looking back.
Doyle Dane Bernbach was a great, great agency when I got there. There was an arrogance that everyone had, but it was a closed club. I was a guy who worked a little differently. Edgier. More punch-in-the-mouth.
In the past, we had several dog butcher shops in Cheongnyangni, but I closed almost all of them down through various measures.
Investigating some of the largest subprime lenders – Wells Fargo, Countrywide, Ameriquest, Household Finance – I’ve seen how their terrible, toxic loans were closed by any means necessary and eventually packaged, sold as securities, and bet upon until they exploded and decimated our economy.
The one thing I could do with my eyes closed is my Grandma’s schnecken.
IE6 was a bad experience for consumers, but it was a terrible for developers. Not only it was technically bad, but it was closed, and you couldn’t do much with it.
In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.
You can’t negotiate in public. People won’t make concessions in public. They will do that in private. Like sausage making, you have to do it behind closed doors.
Those companies that don’t see the black and brown communities are missing, out of their closed eye, talent, which leads to money and growth. When baseball, football and basketball couldn’t see the field, they missed talent and growth. The same is true in the tech industry.
What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
