Convenient Quotes

• If you're interested, you will do what is convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes.

  John Assaraf

  Teaching, Whatever It Takes, Committed

  FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Jul 19, 2014

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• People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Break Up, Music

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

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• Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Remember

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lord Stanhope, July 17, 1870.

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• The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Real, Our World, Devil

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• People who are interested in doing something will do it when it's convenient; people who are committed will do it no matter what.

  Bob Proctor

  People, Matter, Committed

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 19, 2014

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• Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

  Randolph Bourne

  Anger, Society, Likes

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.133, Univ of California Press

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• It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search, but life lived to the edge of all that I may be.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Adventure, Heartfelt, May

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.127, Conari Press

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• The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those brave enough to show us light. Likewise, people engage in darkness when it is light outside, and acknowledge the light only when it is dark. We abandon those fighting for us to cheer behind those fighting against us. And, we only remember good people and God when it is convenient to us –and take them for granted because their doors are always open, only to chase after closed doors and personalities void of truth.

  Suzy Kassem

  Cheer, Dark, Fighting

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• jewels have played a colorful part in the evolution of world affairs. Because precious stones tend to inspire both admiration and greed, leaders have found convenient excuses for seeking them and have used them to impress crowds, reward friends, deprive foes, forge alliances, and justify war. Jewels may find their highest expression in the decorative arts, but they have also earned a place in the art of the possible.

  Madeleine Albright

  Art, War, Expression

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• Everyone works hard when they want to, when they get quick results, when it's convenient to put forth effort. The best work hard when they don't want to, when it's inconvenient to give it that little extra effort... and that extra effort might be just what they need to place them on top.

  Peter Vidmar

  Work, Gymnastics, Giving

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• As convenient as it is for information to come to us, libraries do have a valuable side effect: they force all of the smart people to come together in one place where they can interact with one another.

  Neal Stephenson

  Smart, People, Library

  Neal Stephenson (2012). “Some Remarks”, p.146, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I think we're given multiple chances to meet multiple soulmates. Sure, you could meet a soulmate in highschool. But that doesn't mean if you don't act on it, you'll never meet anyone else. You will, just at a time that's more convenient for you.

  Meg Cabot

  Soulmate, Mean, Thinking

  Meg Cabot (2008). “How to be Popular: ... when you're a social reject like me, Steph L.!”, p.29, Pan Macmillan

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• For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Strong Women, Mad, May

  Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.199, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened.

  Jeff Baena

  Writing, Intention, Happened

  "Why Dane DeHaan and Aubrey Plaza’s ‘Life After Beth’ Make Out Could Have Been Awkward". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.thewrap.com. August 7, 2014.

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• I don't feel that people should glom onto other people. I feel that relationships should be nice and easy and convenient and happy and not strictured with legality or jealousy.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Nice, People, Easy

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• In real life, people end up doing things because it's convenient and it works for them. You don't get up every day regretting what you're doing.

  Mike Colter

  Regret, Real, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Remember that your dominating focus attracts, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful of what you focus on.

  Napoleon Hill

  Law, Focus, Remember

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• And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.

  Audre Lorde

  Responsibility, Safe, Settling

  Audre Lorde (1978). “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power”, Crossing Press

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• . . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

  Henri Poincare

  Math, Mind, World

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• Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of things; and whilst some languages, given a man's constitution and habits, may seem more beautiful and convenient to him than others, it is a foolish heat in a patriot to insist that only his native language is intelligible or right.

  George Santayana

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

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• I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership.... I mean that subtle apprehension which teaches a person how to do and say the right thing at the right time. It coexists with very ordinary qualities, and yet many great geniuses are without it. Of all human qualities I consider it the most convenient--not always the highest; yet I would rather have it than many more shining qualities.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Leadership, Mean, Shining

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• We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Strong, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• It's easy to sit on a mountaintop and tell people what to do and how to be happy. I have chosen to do that. Not because it's easy, but for a different reason, which I would reveal, if your mind was ready to handle it, which it isn't, which is also very convenient for me.

  Eugene Mirman

  People, Mind, Different

  Eugene Mirman (2009). “The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• To build enormous palaces, to conquer or to mimic nature, to ransack the world in order to gratify the passions of a man, is not thought of, but to add a few yards of land to your field, to plant an orchard, or enlarge a dwelling, to always be making life more comfortable and convenient, to avoid trouble, and to satisfy the smallest wants without effort and almost without cost. These are small objects, but the soul clings to them; it dwells upon them closely and day by day, till they at last shut out the rest of the world and sometimes intervene between itself and heaven.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Passion, Men, Dwelling

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• Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party.

  Eddie Kaye Thomas

  Happy, Halloween, Party

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