Demand Quotes - Page 18

• Demand more of yourself.

  Ray Still

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• Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

  Richard Wagner

  Passion, Musician, Directors

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• [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is an adherent of realpolitik. He knows that international relations are not built on the strength of unilateral demands, but on solutions that are in everybody's best interest.

  Martin Schulz

  Erdogan, Relation, Interest

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Children, Kids, People

  Source: collider.com

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• You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.

  Phil McGraw

  Want

  "7 Questions To Ask Yourself If Your Relationship Feels Stuck". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2015.

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• Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates its own safe space, one in which she can confront threats, fears, and dangers, but always come through whole. Play offers a child a natural way to manage feared separations or abandonment, rendering them instead opportunities for mastery and self-discovery.

  Daniel Goleman

  Children, Opportunity, Play

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• The goal...is not to change your desires and wishes but to persuade you to stop demanding that you absolutely must have what you wish-from yourself, from others, and from the world. You can by all means keep your wishes, preferences, and desires, but unless you prefer to remain needlessly anxious, not your grandiose demands.

  Albert Ellis

  Mean, Goal, Wish

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• Data-driven predictions can succeed-and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure rise. Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves.

  Nate Silver

  Odds, Data, Needs

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.17, Penguin

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• Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Games, Play, People

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• There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Perfection, News, Behalf

  Twitter post from Jun 01, 2015

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• No matter what obeisance the state may demand, we who serve the King are free indeed.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Kings, May, Matter

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• The law demands that we do it all; the gospel declares that Jesus paid it all.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Law, Paid

  Twitter post from Feb 16, 2015

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• Important reminder: It's not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Important, Belief

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• There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.

  Thomas Sowell

  Struggle, Rights, Media

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• The reports of racial episodes are disturbing. But the players' protest is exhilarating because it is the most high-profile example to date in a continuing revolution in which the athletes who drive the multibillion-dollar college sports machine have begun to use their visibility to demand change.

  William C. Rhoden

  Sports, Athlete, Player

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• You might not believe it, but there are times when I feel the TV and radio shows demand more of me than those Sunday afternoon games.

  Boomer Esiason

  Believe, Sunday, Games

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• We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry solve the incredibly complex problem of turning out tens of thousands of different goods and services in the proportions in which they are wanted by the public? ... It solves these problems through the institutions of private property, competition, the free market, and the existence of money - through the interrelations of supply and demand, costs and prices, profits and losses.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Loss, Miracle, Competition

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• Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons a year need such an operation if they are to survive. How is the surgeon's scarce resource to be allocated? Charge whatever price is necessary to adjust supply and demand, say $50,000! 'For shame,' some will cry. 'Your market system will save only wealthy people.' For the moment, yes. But soon there will be hundreds of surgeons who will acquire the same skill; and, as in the case of the once scarce and expensive 'miracle drugs,' the price then will be within reach of all.

  Leonard Read

  Years, Skills, People

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• Government policies try to prevent the emergence of serious unemployment by credit expansion, i.e., inflation. The outcome was rising prices, renewed demands for higher wages and reiterated credit expansion; in short, protracted inflation.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Rising Prices, Trying

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• Bureaucrats denounce private enterprise for the consequences of their own reckless policies and demand still more governmental controls.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Reckless, Enterprise, Policy

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• Once the idea is accepted that money is something whose supply is determined simply by the printing press, it becomes impossible for the politicians in power to resist the constant demands for further inflation.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Ideas, Determined, Impossible

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.162, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited wealth rapidly vanishes.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Entrepreneur, Heirs, Wealth

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.342, VM eBooks

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• Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and instead toward jumping through hoops of lawyers and regulators, and prevent other operations from ever getting off the ground.

  Joel Miller

  Jumping, Government, Causes

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• 'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.

  John Stossel

  Government, Noble, Preference

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• Finding voice is a socially responsible political act. We don't just do it for ourselves. And helping someone to find voice demands a spiritual partnership with that seeker. It's an exercise of compassion.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Spiritual, Exercise, Compassion

  Mary Rose O'Reilley (1993). “The Peaceable Classroom”, Boynton/Cook

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