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A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.
Maynard James Keenan
You
Reflection
Circle
Beginning
Other
Circles
Several
Spiral
Put
Over
End
Get
Eternity
Then
Each
You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.
Ray LaMontagne
You
Yourself
Out
Bad
Find
Bad Choices
Spiral
Something
Make
Gets
Choices
Downward
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
Charles Stanley
Failure
Confidence
People
Fear
Opportunities
Cause
Lost
Thinking
Our
Indefinitely
Spiral
Rather
Risk
Results
Talented
Talented People
Known
Erosion
Than
Begins
Stagnation
Procrastinate
Creates
Who
Actions
Downward
I think my music's more disturbing than Tupac's - or at least I thought some of the themes of 'The Downward Spiral' were more disturbing on a deeper level - you know, issues about suicide and hating yourself and God and people and everything else.
Trent Reznor
Music
God
You
Yourself
People
Thought
Think
Suicide
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Hating
Some
Spiral
Disturbing
About
More
Know
Least
Issues
Were
Than
Tupac
Themes
Deeper
Deeper Level
Downward
Level
Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.
Gail Sheehy
Stress
Stupid
Research
Our
Solid
Out
Spiral
Makes
Chemical
Overload
Nasty
Soup
Proves
Brains
Get
Anxious
Depressive
Us
Creates
Hard
Pull
Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
Vanna Bonta
Knowledge
Respect
Invent
Looking
Ocean
Stars
Crest
Our
Immeasurable
Distinguishes
Ourselves
Out
Dream
Outer
Ability
Spiral
Arm
Envision
How
Existence
Up
Ponder
Galaxy
Capability
Us
Aware
With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.
James Bovard
Death
Government
Democracy
Ignorance
People
Fear
Wake Up
Politicians
Lying
Our
Deficit
System
Spiral
Entire
Attention
Putting
Attention Deficit
Combination
Mass
How
Am
Wake
Up
Trying
Reality is on a delay. For you, nothing is now. Realizing this fact is unsettling. If we can only react to the past, how do we manage to navigate the present? It's easy to spiral into a treatise on free will while in the fetal position, overthinking our forever past.
Kyle Hill
You
Reality
Will
Free
Delay
Free Will
Past
Nothing
Our
Easy
Spiral
Only
Fact
Unsettling
React
How
Forever
Manage
While
Realizing
Navigate
Now
Present
Treatise
Position
This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
Frances E. Willard
Time
Progress
Law
Everything
Way
Out
Spiral
Seem
Seems
Rather
Along
Perpendicular
Were
Than
Going
Moves
Upward
Moving
Really
Turns
Actually
Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral.
Heather Mills
News
Culture
Women
Spiral
About
Divorces
Instead
Obsessed
Abuse
Global
Global Warming
Celebrity
Celebrity Culture
Going
Being
Children
Warming
Why
Downward
Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.
Julia Margaret Cameron
Back
Spiral
Itself
Process
Doubling
Growth
When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.
Mary J. Blige
You
Yourself
Back
Spiral
Check
Come
Gotta
Continue
Want
Places
Many
Ever
Damaged
The upside of a downward spiral into despair and defeat in young adulthood is that pretty early on, I was forced to face not only the foolish things I had done but also the stark realization that there was likely no end to what I was capable of doing.
Beth Moore
Face
Young
Defeat
Despair
Spiral
Pretty
Only
Foolish
Had
Adulthood
Likely
Also
Forced
Doing
End
Done
Upside
Capable
Realization
Stark
Downward
Things
Early
When I was a critic, I reviewed Public Enemy's 'Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age' - this is back in '94 - and I called it a 'Dante-esque spiral of the hip-hop hell.' I idolized Chuck D, but I just hated that record, and I did not hold back. Chuck didn't freeze me out. Every time I met Chuck, he always treated me with the utmost respect.
Cheo Hodari Coker
Time
Me
Respect
Age
Enemy
Met
Hell
Every
Every Time
Back
Chuck
Critic
Out
Hated
Record
Spiral
He
Freeze
Mess
Always
Hip-Hop
Idolized
Reviewed
Did
Just
Hold
Public
Utmost
Utmost Respect
Treated
Muse
I think my work is like a spiral: you keep coming back on yourself, but you're at a different place. It's like reading 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' every five years. You realise that some things have caught up.
Cornelia Parker
Work
You
Yourself
Reading
Every
Think
Back
Nineteen
Some
Spiral
Some Things
Like
Caught
Coming
Years
Up
Five
Different
Realise
Place
Different Place
Keep
Things
There's always room to make stuff that is completely morose and downbeat, but we'd probably spiral into a state of complete despair if our music reflected the lyrics all the time. I think that's almost the fun game with some songs, is this complete tearing of two feelings at once.
Dan Smith
Music
Time
Game
Feelings
Think
Despair
State
Complete
Our
Lyrics
Once
Our Music
Some
Spiral
Songs
Almost
Stuff
Make
Always
Reflected
Room
Fun
Tearing
Two
Squaring numbers is a symmetrical process that I like very much. And when I divide one number by another, say, 13 divided by 97, I see a spiral rotating downwards in larger and larger loops that seem to warp and curve. The shapes coalesce into the right number. I never write anything down.
Daniel Tammet
Down
Say
See
Spiral
Seem
Divide
Divided
Write
Shapes
Never
Like
Another
Loops
Very
Anything
Curve
Process
Much
Warp
Rotating
Larger
Right
Number
Symmetrical
Numbers
Times might be tough, your head and thoughts might be spinning, but I find it's physically impossible to do that spiral thing when your mind is focused on giving and creating opportunity.
Daryn Kagan
Thoughts
Opportunity
Impossible
Mind
Tough
Giving
Focused
Find
Spinning
Spiral
Physically
Head
Times
Might
Creating
Your
Thing
Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Cooking
Cheese
Down
Kind
Some
Spiral
Shame
Could
Course
Without
Hippie
Yes
Eggs
Going
Use
Butter
Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet.
Hermann von Helmholtz
Other
Spiral
Brought
Magnet
Magnetic
Steel
Wire
Pieces
Attracts
Becomes
Iron
Current
Which
Placed
Then
Electrical
Near
Copper
As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial journey, the museum literally fell away. I was suspended in some weird nonspace.
Jerry Saltz
Journey
Progress
Frank
Some
Spiral
Wright
Through
Weird
Performance
Fell
Pieces
Suspended
Literally
Transform
Away
Two
Museum
My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all. Even the slightly wonky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral.
Jo Brand
Love
Husband
Backgrounds
Slightly
Spiral
Potatoes
New
Like
Go
Lot
Up
Irish
Little
Them
Chips
Even
Mum
My instincts tell me that you will spiral into a very unhealthy place if you start pondering about how other people think about you and, quite frankly, I don't want to go there.
Jodhi May
Me
You
People
Will
Think
Other
Frankly
Tell
Spiral
About
Instincts
How
Go
Very
Quite
Quite Frankly
Want
Place
Unhealthy
Start
The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse at it. It's kind of this terrible spiral: Since they're not so good at it they do less of it, get worse at it, do less of it. And it's really what I discovered five, six years ago when I started the 'Guys Read' thing.
Jon Scieszka
Good
Problem
Big
Reading
Worse
Kids
Kind
Gigantic
Spiral
Guys
Since
Piece
Liking
Terrible
Read
Years
Discovered
Years Ago
Five
Get
Big Problem
Getting
Six
Just
Really
Less
Thing
Started
I was throwing a spiral football at 6.
Katrina Adams
Spiral
Throwing
Football
In my writing class, we never, ever talk about the writing - ever. We never address a story that's been read. I also won't let anyone look at the person who's reading. No eye contact; everybody has to draw a spiral. And I would like to do a drawing class where we could talk about anything except for the drawing. No one could even mention it.
Lynda Barry
Class
Writing
Reading
Everybody
Address
Draw
Drawing
Eye
Eye Contact
Would
Spiral
About
Mention
Except
Could
Never
No-One
Contact
Like
Look
Talk
Also
Read
Been
Person
Where
Anyone
Anything
Story
Even
Ever
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