Top 428 Shaping Quotes & Sayings

You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.

I appreciate the mistakes I made in the past cause it is shaping my future.

Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

'Coco' is shaping up to be one of the most beautiful films we've made.

I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally - that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping where you put your attention and then - if you're hard on yourself, in good ways - pushing you to translate that attention into action, on whatever scale.

Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job.

We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.

The BBC is very aware of its role in shaping people's consciousness... it's manipulative and deeply political.

If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it.

Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.

As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

I'd never contemplated being in TV and film. But I love working with athletes and talent and shaping great stories.

Where there is little thinking, there is big shaping of the people!

Music... is the shaping of the invisible.

Strategy is about shaping the future.

I think you learn how to write by reading an enormous amount, so then your memory is stocked with various constructions, various ways of shaping a paragraph, shaping a chapter.

In fact, my dad has a significant role to play in shaping my opinions and value system.

For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy.

'Born This Way' is shaping up to be creative ecstasy.

The ocean governs the climate and the weather, it is taking care of the temperature and it is shaping the chemistry of our planet.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

The police genre is capable of holding and shaping many forms of storytelling.

In Rome, I was already trying to help in shaping the game, but the style was a little bit different to what we do at Liverpool.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.

The Trump administration is shaping up to be one of the most corrupt since the Gilded Age.

Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

The past is an open wound, a life force busily shaping an increasingly bewildering present.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance

Summer is conference season - a critical time for building brands, making connections, and shaping industries.

Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.

Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality.

I really believe that parents need to know they are shaping the future of their children.

I read so many books when I was a kid that I didn't even know were shaping me up.

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.

Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.

Family and the natural surroundings played a big role in shaping my values.

All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future

Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.

The future kind of gets less intimidating when you're the one shaping it.

No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear.

InMobi will play a critical role in shaping the future.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.