Currents Quotes - Page 26

• Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

  Max Cannon

  Events, Culture, Yeah

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• Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

  Jamie Fellner

  Roles, Prison, Mental Health

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• More and more, I am pulled reluctantly towards a strong horizontal current, which is a place where time is moving at such high velocity, that even our breath is forced to accelerate just in order for us humans to survive. And I have always believed, that it is in our slow exhalation, where the sense of this deep spiritual energy resides. In a world moving so fast, with the growth of technology and information, I am somehow inclined to move against this current, in search of what it might mean to be connected not just spiritually, but also vertically.

  Akram Khan

  Dance, Spiritual, Time

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• I tell my graduate students [at Bard College], ‘There are two ways to change the world: through policy, or through sustainable business.’ With sustainable business, individuals build solutions within the current system… Sustainable business asks, ‘How would nature do this?’

  Eban Goodstein

  College, Two, World

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• Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister
  current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves.

  Zeena Schreck

  Real, Break, Easier

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• You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming.

  Marshall Sylver

  Believe, Self, Programming

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• Marketing today is much more like sailing than driving. Your boat is the brand. If you point your boat in the right direction, follow the winds/currents, and steer, you will get the boat to go where you want it. Marketers should become the wind, but accept that they’re at the mercy of the currents and weather

  Steve Rubel

  Wind, Weather, Sailing

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• When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.

  Epictetus

  Moving Forward, Creative, Feelings

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• Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose.

  Thomas Szasz

  Men, Rocks, Trying

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.140, Transaction Publishers

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• To feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves, through millions of stone beings - of bird beings - of star beings - of microbe beings - of fountain beings toward ourselves.

  Frida Kahlo

  Stars, Knowing, Bird

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• One who can learn to flow with the current as well as manage the current is the successful one.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Successful, Flow, Wells

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• But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

  Diane Wakoski

  Thinking, Events, Use

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• But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

  Diane Wakoski

  Political, Events, Way

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• I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

  Diane Wakoski

  People, Events, Watches

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• Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night.

  Denis Waitley

  Night, Desire, Want

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• Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Change, Hope, Future

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• Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents.

  Paulo Coelho

  Water, Alchemist, Treasure

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• For all our current troubles, Americans are still the hardest working, most innovative people on the face of the earth. By trusting the American people, instead of government, we'll continue to surprise and inspire the world.

  Rob Portman

  Government, People, Inspire

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• On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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• In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown at half-staff for thirty days from the day of the death.

  Michael K. Simpson

  President, Events, Flags

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• Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current, rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which brings him rumours of beauty from however far away, as drift-wood is found at sea from islands not yet discovered; and this spring-tide or current that visits the blood of man comes from the fabulous quarter of his lineage, from the legendary, of old; it takes him out to the woodlands, out to the hills; he listens to ancient song.

  Lord Dunsany

  Song, Spring, Twilight

  Lord Dunsany (2015). “The Book of Wonder”, p.4, Booklassic

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• As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass.

  Billy Sheehan

  Inspiration, Technique, Bass

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• I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.

  A. B. Simpson

  Christian, Hurt, Soul And Body

  A.B. Simpson “The Holy Spirit, or, Power from on high”, Рипол Классик

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• Regardless of your age or current physical condition you'll laugh, cry, moan, groan, sweat and experience the most exciting, hard working and effective therapeutic yoga routine in the world.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Yoga, Hard Work, Sweat

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• The title says it all: 'Little House on a Small Planet.' With population,
  pollution and environmental pressures weighing heavily upon us, our planet
  grows smaller every day and the need for thoughtful, lower-impact housing becomes more urgent. This delightful book is full of inspiring ideas that will help you simplify your housing choices, make more environmentally responsible product and material choices and bring down the square footage of your next home. Or maybe you'll decide to take your current home and turn it into several. You won't be disappointed.

  Wanda Urbanska

  Book, Home, Thoughtful

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