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In short, chronological connectivity puts us in touch with the holy. It is at once humbling and exhilarating. I say this as someone who has never followed any formal religious practice. Connection with the past and the future is a pathway that charms us in the direction of sanity and grace.
James Howard Kunstler
Future
Grace
Practice
Past
Chronological
Once
Say
Religious
Followed
Someone
Touch
Charms
Direction
Never
Puts
Exhilarating
Any
Pathway
Short
Formal
Us
Holy
Sanity
Who
Connection
Humbling
You buy a house and you get it checked out and you feel like you've kind of made your mark here in some way. And then an act of God just comes up the coast and has the potential to just completely wipe it clean. Weather like that is certainly humbling.
James Van Der Beek
Buy
God
You
Made
Weather
Mark
Way
Out
Kind
Some
Potential
Clean
Wipe
Feel
Checked
Like
House
Up
Get
Just
Then
Act
Your
Certainly
Coast
Here
Humbling
I won't ski in the backcountry the day after a big storm anymore. The mountains are so humbling. As soon as you think you're on top or crushing it, that's when you need to be really careful.
Jimmy Chin
Day
You
Big
Mountains
Think
Top
Soon
Crushing
Anymore
After
Storm
Ski
Really
Humbling
Need
Careful
It's quite humbling when you see the list of writers who have been president of PEN and you know some of the things they've done.
John Ralston Saul
You
President
Pen
See
Some
Writers
Know
Been
List
Done
Quite
Who
Things
Humbling
Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.
John Woolman
Service
Sometimes
Men
Through
Divine
His
Providence
Fitted
Humbling
On behalf of the entire Lionsgate team, it is a tremendous honor and deeply humbling to join the elite group of recipients previously honored with the Milestone Award.
Jon Feltheimer
Honor
Group
Recipients
Tremendous
Honored
Entire
Join
Behalf
Milestone
Team
Award
Deeply
Elite
Humbling
Walking down the street, it's a humbling feeling. Everyone stopping you for photos and autographs, it's real humbling.
Joseph Parker
You
Feeling
Down
Everyone
Photos
Real
Walking
Stopping
Autographs
Street
Humbling
I don't think I could have had a better experience than I did with 'Girlfight.' It was a humbling experience to be so well received. And it was equally humbling to be ripped to pieces with 'Aeon Flux.'
Karyn Kusama
Experience
Better
Think
Flux
Ripped
Could
Had
Pieces
Well
Equally
Than
Did
Received
Humbling
It's really humbling to be acknowledged by such established names like CMT and Billboard.
Kelsea Ballerini
Like
Names
Established
Acknowledged
Really
Billboard
Humbling
I get intimidated by famous people. When I'm around them and they look at me like I belong, I'm like, 'Are you nuts? You're freakin' famous!' Whether it's Elmo or a Beatle or Vince Gill, it's humbling to be in a room with these folks.
Kristian Bush
Me
You
People
Intimidated
Nuts
Folks
Beatle
Like
Look
Around
Get
Famous
Famous People
Whether
Room
Them
Belong
Humbling
My phone was not ringing very much at the time after USC, and that was a very humbling experience after being let go there and to go through that process. You start calling a lot of people that don't call you back all of a sudden, and you realize things about people.
Lane Kiffin
Time
You
Experience
People
Phone
Back
Ringing
About
Through
Call
Calling
Go
Lot
Very
Being
After
Process
Realize
Much
USC
Sudden
Let Go
Things
Start
Humbling
It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
Laura Schlessinger
You
Alive
Know
Legacy
Your
Humbling
It's been humbling to have multiple teams interested in me and have people talking about my free agency and what I should do.
Manny Machado
Me
People
Free
Free Agency
About
Talking
Been
Interested
Agency
Should
Teams
Multiple
Humbling
I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre.
Mariel Hemingway
Me
Lesson
Difficult
Jobs
Bizarre
Never
Had
Because
Understand
Doing
Very
Getting
Loved
Acting
Humbling
Eric Schmidt from Google is one of my favorite mentors. And Eric would always say this very humbling thing that's really true, which is, he would say, 'Good executives confuse themselves when they convince themselves that they actually do things.'
Marissa Mayer
Good
Google
Confuse
Say
Favorite
Would
Mentors
He
True
Executives
Always
Eric
Very
Which
Themselves
Really
Convince
Actually
Thing
Things
Humbling
We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory.
Mary McAleese
Memory
Country
Vibrant
Humbling
It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in 'The Practice' than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.
Michael Emerson
Me
People
Will
Power
Practice
Stage
Worries
Saw
Bit
TV
See
More
More People
Both
Troubling
Reach
Sort
Than
Which
Little
Little Bit
Ever
Humbling
Plays
Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.
Michael Leunig
Wisdom
Best
Reality
Arise
May
Humbling
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.
Michael Stipe
Music
Sometimes
Before
Few
Back
Record
Make
Equally
Go
Uplifting
Listen
Humbling
It was humbling to see how many fans there are of 'Serenity.' It's like an underground fan base.
Morena Baccarin
Fans
See
Like
Underground
How
Fan
Fan Base
Many
Serenity
Base
Humbling
Its pretty humbling, because I go back to the places where I used to play for 13 people, and now there's 1,500.
Passenger
People
Back
Pretty
Because
Go
Where
Places
Used
Now
Play
Humbling
Sometimes you need a humbling experience to think about a few things.
Per Mertesacker
You
Experience
Sometimes
Few
Think
About
Few Things
Things
Humbling
Need
Golf is a humbling sport.
Peter Uihlein
Sport
Golf
Humbling
You have to understand that when you're a voice actor on an animated film, you're really just a tiny little piece of this huge process. And when you finally get to see the finished product and see all of the wonderful work that the animators & the designers & the writers did to make your character stand out, it's just so touching, so humbling.
Phyllis Smith
Work
Character
You
Wonderful
Finished
Finally
Out
See
Touching
Voice
Finished Product
Writers
Animated
Animators
Piece
Make
Understand
Huge
Get
Did
Tiny
Just
Process
Little
Really
Product
Stand
Your
Little Piece
Film
Actor
Designers
Humbling
When you have these moments where a song connects with people and creates a conversation, it's quite a humbling experience because it's like, 'Maybe there is a little bit more weight to this job than I thought there ever was before.' Which was wonderful that that happened with 'Dead Boys.'
Sam Fender
You
Conversation
Experience
People
Song
Wonderful
Job
Thought
Before
Bit
More
Weight
Like
Dead
Because
Boy
Than
Quite
Maybe
Where
Happened
Which
Little
Little Bit
Creates
Moments
Connects
Ever
Humbling
You have people who are so passionate and touched by my work, which is so humbling. But other times, it's a little overwhelming. If I'm just trying to go to the bodega and get some coconut water, I have to put on a hat and some glasses - those kind of things.
Samira Wiley
Work
You
People
Water
Glasses
Overwhelming
Other
Those
Kind
Hat
Some
Touched
Put
Passionate
Go
Times
Get
Trying
Just
Which
Little
Who
Coconut
Things
Humbling
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