Abandon Quotes - Page 33

• While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Attitude, Believe, Mean

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• Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.

  Timothy Leary

  Dropping Out, Lsd, Constructive

  Timothy Leary (1990). “Flashbacks: A Personal and Cultural History of an Era : an Autobiography”, Tarcher

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• Tips for aspiring writers: don't be afraid of writing rubbish. It's very easy to become hypnotised by an empty page or screen. It's tempting to abandon a half-finished work because you can't make it perfect. I hereby give you permission to write things that aren't perfect, make mistakes, try things that don't work, experiment with styles you're not used to and generally throw words around. You'll learn much faster that way.

  Frances Hardinge

  Mistake, Writing, Giving

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• To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea 'cruising' it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.

  Sterling Hayden

  Mean, Sea, Play

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.42, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I knew that I would have to be brave. Not foolhardy, not in love with risk and danger, not making ridiculous exhibitions of myself to prove that I wasn't terrified--really genuinely brave. Brave enough to be quiet when quiet was called for, brave enough to observe before flinging myself into something, brave enough to not abandon my true self when someone else wanted to seduce or force me in a direction I didn't want to go, brave enough to stand my ground quietly.

  Piper Kerman

  Self, Brave, Risk

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• I know of no long-time practitioner who regrets adhering to a value philosophy; few investors who embrace the fundamental principles ever abandon this investment approach for another

  Seth Klarman

  Regret, Philosophy, Long

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• It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

  David Eagleman

  God Life, Dies

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• Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  People, Important, Weakening

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Poetry takes you into the recesses of the language, the neglected corners, cracks and crannies and to the big sky of wonder. It opens the door to a critique without which you have rather boring analytical tools by comparison. To cultivate poetry means to stay with it. Not to abandon hope, but to abide.

  C.D. Wright

  Mean, Language, Wonder

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

  Henry Rollins

  Pride, Trying, Might

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• If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may, after suitable tests, be promoted, but if he shows any regrettable solidarity with his previous associates, the rulers will reluctantly conclude that there is nothing to be done with him except to send him to the lethal chamber before his ill-disciplined intelligence has had time to spread revolt. This will be a painful duty to the rulers, but I think they will not shrink from performing it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Done, May

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• When Chuck House wanted to develop the oscilloscope for HP, David Packard told him to abandon the project. Chuck went on "vacation" and came back with $2 million in orders. Packard later gave him an award inscribed with an accolade for "extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering."

  Bob Sutton

  Vacation, Awards, Engineering

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• If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Saint, Sin, Confession

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• If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to destruction all the greatness of the world, all that which was mine and yours, which was made by us and is still ours by right - because I cannot believe that men refuse to see, that they can remain blind and deaf to us forever, when the truth is ours and their lives depend on accepting it.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Believe, Greatness

  "Atlas Shrugged".

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• Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Hypocrisy, Atmosphere

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• If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.

  Nate Silver

  Winning, College, Swings

  "Nate Silver Took A Huge Shot Against Mainstream Political Pundits In His Latest Election Forecast" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 3, 2012.

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• We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

  George Santayana

  Should Have, Illusion, Irrational

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.136, MIT Press

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• heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise person puts himself last, and thereby finds himself first, holds himself outside, and thereby remains at the center, abandons himself, and is thereby fulfilled.

  Laozi

  Wise, Heaven, Earth

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• Mean-spirited mediocrities, especially those with a smattering of learning, are the most likely to be opinionated. Only strong minds know how to correct their opinions and abandon a bad position.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Strong, Mean, Learning

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• It is important not to abandon the practice of yoga because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality.

  Ravi Ravindra

  Motivation, Believe, Yoga

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• The only way we're gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.

  Charles Schumer

  Moving, Republican

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Trying to understand the fear I had of truly opening my heart - first, you have to be whole to do that. The fears, the voices in my mind saying, "Oh, you don't want to do that, you might get hurt, they might abandon you - "those are ghost voices from my mom and dad.

  Jane Fonda

  Mom, Hurt, Dad

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• But we don't have a right to force anyone to abandon their faith. It is one of the foundational commitments of who we are as Americans to respect diversity.

  Ted Cruz

  Commitment, Diversity, Who We Are

  "Ellen Page and Ian Daniel on Creating Gaycation, the State of LGBT Rights in Other Countries, and Watching a Son Come Out to His Mother" by John Horn, www.vulture.com. March 25, 2016.

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• There may be some who wish that he would have taken the occasion to first comment on the Brexit vote, but they're not going to abandon him. They're not gonna let the media do it. Romney people? The media could separate his supporters from him, but they can't from Trump. They don't understand this yet. They think one of these times when they do a trick like this it's gonna work and they're gonna be able to really harm [Donald] Trump.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Taken, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [Boris]Johnson, [Nigel] Farage, they are retro-nationalists, not patriots. Patriots don't abandon ship when the going gets tough. They stay on board.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Boards, Ships, Tough

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