Accommodate Quotes

• Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Doe, Would Be, Fruition

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.40, Knopf

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• To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite.

  George Washington

  Party, Two, Differences

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The writings of George Washington”, p.84

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• The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

  Christopher Nolan

  Movie, Inspiring, Actors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The mark of the developed intellect is that it could accommodate two contradictory ideas at the same time.

  John Kao

  Ideas, Two, Mark

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Intelligent, Rise To Power

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

  Sting

  Jealous, Positivity, People

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• A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. - Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and cringes over the most obstinate and inflexible. - Philip of Macedon was a man of most invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens; confounded their statesmen; struck their orators dumb; and at length argued them out of all their liberties.

  Joseph Addison

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Men

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• The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

  William James

  God, Science, Law

  The Varieties of Religious Experience Lecture 20 (1902)

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• Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

  Imelda Staunton

  Imagination, Agents, Boxes

  "I'm not in that league" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2004.

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• the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.

  Fanny Burney

  Mind, Ridiculous, Repetition

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.301, Delphi Classics

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• The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with a smile.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Art, Opposites, World

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• My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me, despite our differences.

  Joy Harjo

  Differences, Trying, And Love

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• It’s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they’re not quite telling each other the truth and they’re not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them.

  Bill Hybels

  People, Temptation, Groups

  Bill Hybels (2008). “Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs”, p.132, Zondervan

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• I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

  Jack Kemp

  Feet, Would Be, Fool

  "In New Role, Kemp Fights With His Past Over Ideology" by B. Drummond Ayres Jr., www.nytimes.com. August 15, 1996.

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• In general, if a couple cannot expand their original rules and boundaries to accommodate personal growth, the relationship disintegrates.

  Caroline Myss

  Couple, Growth, Boundaries

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.160, Harmony

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• It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.

  Ivanka Trump

  Learning, Skills, Important

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• If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there.

  Myles Munroe

  Past, Causes, Worship

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• One of the things I love about translation is it obliterates the self. When I'm trying to figure out what Tu Fu has to say, I have to kind of impersonate Tu Fu. I have to take on, if you will, his voice and his skin in English, and I have to try to get as deeply into the poem as possible. I'm not trying to make an equivalent poem in English, which can't be done because our language can't accommodate the kind of metaphors within metaphors the Chinese written language can, and often does, contain.

  Sam Hamill

  Voice, Self, Chinese

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process in sound. Jazz means working things out musically with other people. You have to listen to other musicians and play with them even if you don't agree with what they're playing. It teaches you the very opposite of racism and anti-Semitism. It teaches you that the world is big enough to accommodate us all.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Mean, Opposites, Play

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• If people do not revere the Law of Nature It will adversely affect them. If they accept It with knowledge and reverence, It will accommodate them with balance and harmony.

  Laozi

  Law, Balance And Harmony, People

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• Be content with what you have Be satisfied with your dwelling place to accommodate your enterprise, Restrain your tongue, And shed tears of regret regarding past sins you committed knowingly, and those you do not recognize.

  Abdullah, Son of Masud

  Wisdom, Regret, Islamic

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• We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

  Pico Iyer

  Travel, Heart, Eye

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• God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

  R. C. Sproul

  Order, Holiness

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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• There's such a magnitude of record taking. It's so exhaustive. Bandwidth and hard drive space are able to accommodate limitless capacities to take a record of anything and everything.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Space, Records, Anything And Everything

  "It’s Sufjan Stevens’ Way or the Highway". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2009.

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• Water is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the morning's dew. It is non-confrontational, even respectful, in circumventing the rocks in a stream. It makes room for everything that enters its pools. It accommodates by assuming the shape of any vessel it is poured into. And it is humble, seeking always the lowest level. Yet along with - or rather because of these adaptive, yielding properties, it is ultimately irresistible; it carves canyons out of stone.

  Huston Smith

  Morning, Humble, Humility

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