Boundaries Quotes - Page 28

• After September 11 there was feeling obligated to respond, and allow other people to set the terms of the conversation. There was this ritualistic condemnation of terrorism. I'm not saying that that's unimportant, but it became the case that the Muslim people in the United States or in other parts of the world were inclusively taking on responsibility for things that they had nothing to do with. Of course, it's very important that a community define its moral boundaries. A community also must acknowledge what it can and cannot control.

  Haroon Moghul

  Responsibility, People, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We aren't defined by our work. People think if you over-identify with your work, then that must mean you're giving over too much of yourself to it, that there's something wrong with that. We're trained to believe in things like work-life balance. So much work is tending towards service. It's very much about creating experiences rather than products, and it makes those boundaries between life and work very slippery.

  Melissa Gira Grant

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• National boundaries these days are not that important because of transformative technological development. Now we are talking about the fourth industrial revolution.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Important, Revolution, Technological

  Source: wwd.com

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• There's something quite magical that can happen when a secret is no longer a secret - or is a shared secret or a common secret. By allowing those boundaries to be porous, certain forms of oppression may be lifted.

  Charlotte Cotton

  Secret, Common, Oppression

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think the twenty-first-century modality is exhibitionism. Exhibitionism is our contemporary strategy for maintaining our boundaries, which is to be boundary-less - to put everything out there before somebody comes and violates or penetrates something that we're keeping sacred.

  Charlotte Cotton

  Thinking, Strategy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What's happening now with technology is we live with very porous boundaries. All those little interruptions fragment our time and attention and make us feel like work never ends. It makes us feel like we don't ever have that sacred time for family or to breathe or meditate or for leisure. Time is contaminated for everyone. I'm hoping that as we get used to these technologies we'll get smarter about how we use them and also how to shut them off.

  Brigid Schulte

  Technology, Attention, Breathe

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There have been studies concluding that most people mostly know people only within their own social class - although such a conclusion would hardly surprise anyone. I think there's evidence to suggest that it's even narrower - the great majority of friends of Ivy Leaguers, for instance, are Ivy Leaguers. This narrows the pool of people who can write fiction cutting across class boundaries that's informed by their own personal experience.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Writing, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Of course, an English aristocrat might have some contact with the staff downstairs and could adequately say a thing or two about inter-class dramas unfolding in the household. But something less parochial might be harder to come by. This is relevant because stories about the divisiveness of class are by definition stories that straddle class boundaries. A story about a miner in a mining town is not obviously one that speaks to the divisiveness of class. In other words, class doesn't just divide us in the world but it also divides us in the stories we're presented.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Drama, World, Speak

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I feel more comfortable being honest because I don't have to "remember" my answers. You never forget the truth! I just have to learn how much truth to give, that's my boundary. That's my new thing.

  Fergie

  Giving, Honest, Remember

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Right now we're in the midst of a grand experiment on how best to harness the incredible power of the Internet while we struggle to maintain useful boundaries among the different parts of our lives.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Struggle, Different, Internet

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Managing the boundaries between work and the rest of our lives - family, community, and the private self - is now a much more daunting task. The good news is that there are ways to realize the promise of greater focus and presence on the moment for better performance and results, but it does take discipline and practice to get there.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Discipline, Focus, Community

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I don't think there is anything as powerful as an active heart. They do not fear the wisdom of emotion, but embody it. They know how to listen. They are polite when they need to be and unyielding when necessary. They remain open, even as they push boundaries and inhabit the margins, understanding eventually, the margins will move toward the center. They are tenacious, informed, patient, and impatient, at once. They do not shy away from what is difficult. They refuse to accept the unacceptable. The most effective activists I know are in love with the world.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Powerful, Moving, Heart

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• I'm making black music. That's the only outline for me, really. That's the only boundary to stay with. It's soul music. I'm going all out in those terms.

  D'Angelo

  Soul, Black, Term

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• There's a way in which all of these grazers at the spirituality buffet are performing a service, because you could argue that grazing leads to a kind of tolerance. People who incorporate teachings from a lot of different traditions into their own belief systems are going to be more tolerant than people who confine themselves within the strict boundaries of one particular religion. Does it contribute to our confusion? I don't know if it contributes to confusion so much as it is evidence of a certain kind of silliness and shallowness.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Teaching, Confusion, People

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• I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it's a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven't flinched.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mean, Cnn, Pushing

  "An Interview With Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert". Interview with Jamie Soja, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

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• The pressure to be pretty? I set, you know, boundaries and goals for myself. I try not to compare myself to anyone else because I will never be anyone else except myself. So I try and stay true to me, and hopefully the right projects will come my way.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Goal, Trying, Way

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• Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Light, Perspective, Shadow

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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• People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.

  Claire Danes

  People, Bipolar, Disorder

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• When you look at someone like Sacha Baron Cohen, you have to really respect the boundaries he is pushing as Bruno or Borat.

  Will Ferrell

  Looks, Pushing

  "Will Ferrell interview". film.list.co.uk. November 6, 2009.

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• I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.

  Carrie Fisher

  Known

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• We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the office, you need to create a virtual boundary that didn't exist before.

  Daniel Goleman

  Office, Needs, Gadgets

  "Sociability: It's all in your mind". Interview with Sharon Jayson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 24, 2006.

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• The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

  Al Gore

  Golden, Reason, Used

  Al Gore (2009). “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis”, Rodale Books

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• One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.

  Brian Greene

  Ease, Wonder, Crosses

  "Sunday Q&A: Physicist seeks truth about cosmos". Interview With Eric Berger, www.chron.com. September 27, 2009.

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• Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Political, Way

  "Print: Atheism's Poster Boy Sam Harris on the Science of Morality". Interview with Olivia Koski, www.wired.com. November 29, 2010.

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• It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one day. So when you go into the studio, you don't see the hundreds of people at a gig or the viewers on TV, you just write a song without any inhibitions or boundaries.

  Jessie J

  Song, Writing, People

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

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