Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
Paul Klee

One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance.
Ben E. King

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
Victor Hugo

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
J. W. Eagan

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle

People are trading distance for dollars.
Ray Brown

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
Andy Goldsworthy

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
Donald Rumsfeld

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
Edmond Halley

Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language.
Thomas Friedman

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
Zora Neale Hurston

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
Edward Albee

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
Edward Albee

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.
Keren Ann

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
Henri Nouwen

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Jean Paul

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Michael Korda

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.
Emily Greene Balch