Demand Quotes - Page 19

• Rather than seeing ourselves as insignificant specks in the immensity of the cosmos, we can consider that immensity an indicator of our worth. It seems the Creator invested a great deal-a universe of 50 billion trillion stars, plus a hundred times more matter, all fine-tuned to mind-boggling precision-for us. If not for the strength and abundance of evidence in support of that notion, it would seem the height of arrogance. Humility demands that we take a deeper and wider look at that evidence.

  Hugh Ross

  Stars, Humility, Support

  Hugh Ross (2010). “Why the Universe Is the Way It Is”, p.41, Baker Books

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• Every time an actress is celebrated for her great work, I cheer. For the more brilliant their performance, the more the audience demands stories about women... And as we all know: a great year for women in film, is just a great year for film.

  Jessica Chastain

  Cheer, Years, Great Year

  "Jessica Chastain denies Oscar feud with Jennifer Lawrence" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2013.

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• A national movement, which does not include in its platform the demand for an economical change advantageous to the masses has no chance of success unless supported by foreign aid.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Doe, Movement, Chance

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• The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know "why such things exist." Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you, just as a carpenter would if you seemed shocked at finding sawdust in his workshop, or a shoemaker at scraps of leather left over from work.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Laughing, Cucumbers, Path

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.111, Modern Library

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• There is a way of ordering our mental life on more than one level at once. On one level we can be thinking, discussing, seeing, calculating, meeting all the demands of external affairs, but deep within, behind the scenes at a profounder level we may also be in prayer and adoration, song and worship and a gentle receptiveness to divine breathings.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Song, Prayer, Thinking

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• The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a mystical experience because that would be essentially man ordering God at man's whim, which is not how it's supposed to work.

  Terence McKenna

  Powerful, Men, Mystical Experiences

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• Fashion is harder than the film industry. You have to constantly be able to crank out hit after hit after hit on demand and on a very tight calendar. I've come back, I've lost it, I've come back again. It's really as good as your last collection.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Calendars, Able

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• If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Generations, Want, Chance

  "The Power of Doubt" by Christopher B. Nelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2014.

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• A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.

  Stephen Spender

  Inspiration, Writing, People

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• Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.

  Emile Zola

  Art, Affirmation, Individual

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• There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Majority, Return, Good Business

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.21, Penguin

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• To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  White, People, Black

  "In Defense of a Loaded Word" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.nytimes.com. November 23, 2013.

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• Strong leadership demands more than the willingness to use force. It means directing the use of the right tools at the right time for the right purpose and the right cause.

  John F. Kerry

  Strong, Mean, Tools

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• It wasn't like we cut songs out; we cut bits of songs, bits of action or bits of whatever. So we would have to go back in get a full orchestra re-orchestrate it, re-score it, re-record it. It's a massive job. But, if there's a demand we can always discuss it.

  Eric Fellner

  Song, Jobs, Cutting

  Source: collider.com

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• We have a process that continually looks back to him for guidance, but it also combines that with a tremendous amount of discovery and invention, as well, because of the demands of the medium and the opportunities of the medium.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Opportunity, Discovery, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Kids don't even know what it means that you have to watch a show on Thursday night at 9 o'clock, on any given network. You just put it on your DVR, or queue it up on your computer, and it's an on-demand and instant access world.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Mean, Kids, Night

  Source: collider.com

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• I put real pressure on myself and I demand the best out of myself.

  Michael Jackson

  Real, Pressure

  Source: www.today.com

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• We think of prices as simply the notation of how much we must pay for things. But the price system accomplishes far more than that. Hundreds of millions of people buying and selling, and abstaining from buying and selling, generate a system of signals - prices to producers and consumers about relative scarcities and demand. Through this system, consumers can convey to producers their subjective priorities and entrepreneurs can invest accordingly.

  Sheldon Richman

  Thinking, People, Entrepreneur

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• In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Accepting, Avoided

  Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.106, Metropolitan Books

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• Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

  Hermann Hesse

  Order, Chaos

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• One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most intricate and complex of man's handiworks. The management of this complex craft will demand our best use of new languages and systems, our best adaptation of proven engineering management methods, liberal doses of common sense, and a God-given humility to recognize our fallibility and limitations.

  Fred Brooks

  Humility, Men, Race

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• In my experience, I have found that creativity demands a vigilant mind, which is weakened by the influence of drugs.

  Ernst Junger

  Creativity, Drug, Mind

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• If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Uplifting, Christian, Mean

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• Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Stills

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• We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Justice, Trying, Chance

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.175, Shambhala Publications

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