Signals famous quotes

How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?
-- Alan Alda

#Track #Signals #Familiar

A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#God #Years #Signals

Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
-- Anne Lamott

#Inspirational #Writing #Signals

The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
-- Barry Diller

#Air #Signals #Ability

"No" is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you... Declining to hear "no" is a signal that someone is either seeking control or refusing to relinquish it.
-- Gavin de Becker

#Abuse #Trying #Signals

Life proceeds amid an incessant network of signals.
-- George Steiner

#Incessant #Signals

That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.
-- Gertrude B. Elion

#Thinking #Disease #Signals

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
-- Harriet Lerner

#Anger #Listening #Signals

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
-- Helen Keller

#Bad Day #Defeat #Signals

A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly.
-- Jean Vanier

#Grace #Signals #Difficulty

Can't stop the signal
-- Joss Whedon

#Signals

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
-- Katherine Anne Porter

#Infidelity #Fidelity #Signals

God loves the noise as much as the signal.
-- Lewis M. Branscomb

#Noise #God Love #Signals

The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
-- Nate Silver

#Noise #Signals

These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information...
-- Paul Simon

#Information #Lasers #Signals

If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.
-- Raymond Williams

#Tears #Emotion #Signals

The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in human life, he imperatively feels.
-- Richard Hofstadter

#Ideas #Intellectual #Signals

Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.
-- Sandra Bartky

#Inferiority #Way #Signals

When you smile at people, its a signal to what you are bringing to their life.
-- Sean Stephenson

#People #Signals

Expectations send unconscious signals that people respond to.
-- Tony Robbins

#Expectations #People #Signals

The signals we give-yes or no, or maybe-/should be clear/the darkness around us is deep.
-- William Stafford

#Giving #Darkness #Signals

Apology sends the clearest signal that we have the strength of character to reconcile ourselves with the truth.
-- John Kador

#Character #Apology #Signals

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#Ancestry #Signals #Breeding

Our hunger signal will remain active until we take in an adequate supply of nourishment.
-- Brendan Brazier

#Adequate #Hunger #Signals

Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals.
-- Daniel Coyle

#Skills #Signals #Insulation