Cultivating Quotes - Page 7

• Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Attitude, Mean, Knowing

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• As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.

  Yolanda Adams

  Real, Thinking, Trying

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• To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'

  Booker T. Washington

  Men, White, Race

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably be more vigilant about policing the public square, not less so. . . . [Y]ou cannot sustain liberal democracy without cultivating liberal habits of mind among religious believers. That remains true today, both in Baghdad and in Baton Rouge.

  Mark Lilla

  Religious, Squares, Long

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• In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Should, Emphasis, Avoiding

  Sathya Sai Baba (1988). “Education in human values”

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• Being an elite performer on the playing field of life is not about being perfect. Rather, it is about cultivating a mental focus towards mastery in every area of your life. It is about commiting yourself, from the core of your heart, to manifest and polish your highest talents and become the person you are destined to be.

  Robin Sharma

  Heart, Perfect, Focus

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• No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  War, Blessing, Games

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• On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days.... Such do not know that like the seed is the fruit, and that, in the moral world, when good seed is planted, good fruit is inevitable, and does not depend on our watering and cultivating; that when you plant, or bury, a hero in his field, a crop of heroes is sure to spring up. This is a seed of such force and vitality, that it does not ask our leave to germinate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Hero, Men

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• At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  School, Heart, Boys

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.196, Booklassic

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• Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cows, Protection, Ahimsa

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• Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Memories, Children

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• Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

  Richard Powers

  Forever, Mastery, Faces

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• As an american, you're born aiming so high - boys want to play in the major leagues, girls want to be princesses. We're cultivating little champions. It's like the land of little champions.

  Steven Conrad

  Girl, Princess, Boys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.

  Jeanette MacDonald

  Drinking, Thinking, Years

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• Kundalini is generated through cultivating humility, purity, through meditation, selfless giving, and by studying with an advanced teacher on a personal level.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Humility, Buddhism

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• My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.

  Zachary Quinto

  Family And Friends, Desire, My Friends

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• In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to avail themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more difficult but an incomparably more worthy task.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Teacher, Giving Up

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• I like to define networking as cultivating mutually beneficial, give-and-take, win-win relationships... The end result may be to develop a large and diverse group of people who will gladly and continually refer a lot of business to us, while we do the same for them.

  Bob Burg

  Winning, Giving, People

  Bob Burg (1994). “Endless Referrals: Network Your Everyday Contacts Into Sales”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thorns, Should, Bosoms

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.255, Wildside Press LLC

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• The realization of New Africa can only be possible by the African cultivating spiritual balance, which leads to the practicalization of social regeneration, to realizing economic determination, becoming mentally emancipated, and ushering in a political resurgence.

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Spiritual, Determination, Political

  "A Life of Azikiwe". Book by K. A. B. Jones-Quartey, 1965.

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• We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we may as well calm down: construction is not absolute. Our virtue is this: by cultivating the exact we have laid the foundations for a science of art, including the unknown X.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Succeed, Foundation

  Statement of 1917. "Teaching at the Bauhaus". Book by Rainer Wick and Gabriele Diana Grawe, p. 231, 2000.

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• The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself into will, to application of itself, to pure practice. The realists felt the need and supplied it, though in a most miserable way, by cultivating idea-less and fettered "practical men." Most college students are living examples of this sad turn of events. Trained in the most excellent manner, they go on training; drilled they continue drilling.

  Max Stirner

  Lying, College, Men

  Max Stirner (1967). “The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism”, Ralph Myles Pub

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• Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

  Upton Sinclair

  Men, Strange, Beast

  Upton Sinclair (2014). “The Profits of Religion”, p.19, Trajectory Inc

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• If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been
  cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.

  Pema Chodron

  Emotional, Long, News

  Pema Chodron (2009). “Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

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• Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his animal nature, to persuade himself that he is not limited by its weaknesses nor concerned in its fate. And this impulse may be harmless, when it is genuine. But what are we to say when we see the formulas of heroic self-deception made use of by unheroic self-indulgence?

  Upton Sinclair

  Fate, Animal, Men

  "The Profits of Religion : An Essay in Economic Interpretation". Book by Upton Sinclair, Introductory, "Bootstrap-lifting", 1918.

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