Demand Quotes - Page 7

• Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Feelings, Labels, Language

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• Writers in Latin America live in a reality that is extraordinarily demanding. Surprisingly, our answer to these demands protects and develops our individuality. I feel I am not alone in trying to give their voice to those who don't have it.

  Elena Poniatowska

  Latin, Reality, America

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• Success by its very nature demands a period of overcoming, a process by which we become strong in broken places.

  Dennis Kimbro

  Strong, Broken, Overcoming

  Dennis Kimbro (2011). “Daily Motivations for African-American Success: Including Inspirations from Famous African-American Achievers”, Fawcett

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• An abuser can seem emotionally needy. You can get caught in a trap of catering to him, trying to fill a bottomless pit. But he's not so much needy as entitled, so no matter how much you give him, it will never be enough. He will just keep coming up with more demands because he believes his needs are your responsibility, until you feel drained down to nothing.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Believe, Responsibility, Giving

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.57, Penguin

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• The central attitudes driving the Demand Man are:
  It's your job to do things for me, including taking care of my responsibilities if I drop the ball on them. If I'm unhappy about
  any aspect of my life, whether it has to do with our relationship or not, it's your fault.
  You should not place demands on me at all. You should be grateful for whatever I choose to give.
  I am above criticism.
  I am a very loving and giving partner. You're lucky to have me.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Jobs, Attitude, Grateful

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• Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge. Such rites demand, if they are to be meaningful at all, a certain amount of time spent precisely on the Red Line, where you can lean over the manicured putting green at the edge of the precipice and see exactly nothing.

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Meaningful, Racing, Training

  "Once a Runner: A Novel". Book by John L. Parker, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

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• I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.

  Chris Pine

  Responsibility, Thinking, Should Have

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• There are probably only a certain number of people who can understand or tolerate how long a job will take and what demands it puts on you. And why should they? It breeds a strange kind of selfishness immersing yourself in a character for so long.

  Dominic Cooper

  Jobs, Character, Numbers

  "Don't call me Mr Darcy" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2008.

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• The modern tribalism of the left demands that each person choose a group and then agree with everything that group agrees with. And anybody who leaves that group is stoned to death.

  Tucker Carlson

  Groups, Modern, Tribalism

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• Sony is a clear leader in the digital camera and camcorder categories. As Sony continues to develop next-generation video and still image capture technologies, the demand for high speed, large capacity, small form factor memory cards will grow as well.

  Bill Vaughan

  Memories, Technology, Leader

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• Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.

  George Herbert

  Foolish

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.333

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• I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

  Pat Metheny

  Creativity, Thinking, Levels

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• I know it's bad to generalize, but when you think about billionaires, you just think this guy is going to walk into a room and just demand things to be a certain way.

  Sabrina Bryan

  Thinking, Guy, Way

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• It is good to preserve the name, wealth, and honors you inherit, but it is better in every way if you yourself create a position and a name. The first requires good sense, but the second demands willpower and great virtue.

  Roman Baldorioty de Castro

  Names, Honor, Way

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• Freedom demands that we struggle for an extension of both equality and free expression, not regard one as inimical to the other.

  Kenan Malik

  Struggle, Expression, Regard

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• Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south.

  Aleksandr Vasilevsky

  Two, Giving, Enemy

  "Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War" by David M. Glantz, (p. 228), 1989.

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• The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.

  Mieczyslaw Jastrun

  Absurd, Poetry Is

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• Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts.

  Ann Bridge

  Real, Needs, Advertising

  Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.175, A&C Black

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• Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.

  Marjorie Benton Cooke

  Winning, Youth, Spirit

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• to give life to sculpture I found it must have a pulse, a breathing quality that could change in a flash, and it must never appear static, hard, or unrevealing. All these demands formed themslves in my thoughts, and became like an endless obsession.

  Malvina Hoffman

  Art, Breathing, Giving

  Malvina Hoffman (1965). “Yesterday is Tomorrow: A Personal History”, New York : Crown Publishers

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• All the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears - you don't believe in God or them or the infallibility of England or anything but bloody war and wounds and foul smells and smutty stories and smoke and bombs and lice and filth and noise, noise, noise - you live in a world of cold sick fear, a dirty world of darkness and despair - you want to crawl ignominiously home away from these painful writhing things that once were men, these shattered, tortured faces that dumbly demand what it's all about in Christ's name.

  Evadne Price

  War, Believe, Dirty

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• I never had time to do anything for myself. I've always had to subordinate my energy and time to the demands of my husband and children at any given moment. And now old age has crept up on me and I have used up all my mental and physical strength on my family.

  Sophia Tolstaya

  Children, Husband, Sacrifice

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• Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

  Dan Barker

  Real, Sunday, Hands

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• I love scenes that are just emotional give and take. By the same token action sequences are great to do. They have their own unique demands and requirements. So I take it as it comes and hopefully you can get a good balance of all of that stuff.

  Stephen Lang

  Unique, Emotional, Giving

  "Daddy’s Home! Stephen Lang On Playing Mary Shannon’s Long Gone Father On In Plain Sight!". Interview with Sheldon Wiebe, eclipsemagazine.com. April 19, 2012.

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• I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Writing, Style, Trying

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