Dominant Quotes

• Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life Is Good, Bad Ass, Expression

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• My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment, which is a good thing for someone who still thinks of themselves as a very basic American.

  Twyla Tharp

  Education, Mother, Simple

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

  Mao Zedong

  Leadership, Responsibility, Work Out

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• You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self.

  Ryan Gosling

  Self, Expression, Support

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• No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

  Isaac Asimov

  Motivational, Future, Continuing On

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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• Most women in our culture, then, are disordered when it comes to issues of self-worth, self-entitlement, self-nourishment, and comfort with their own bodies; eating disorders, far from being 'bizarre' and anomalous, are utterly continuous with a dominant element of the experience of being female in this culture.

  Susan Bordo

  Self Worth, Issues, Anorexia

  Susan Bordo (2004). “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body”, p.57, Univ of California Press

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• That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom - these are the traits of the frontier.

  Frederick Jackson Turner

  Powerful, Evil, Mind

  Frederick Jackson Turner (2012). “The Frontier in American History”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make sense, but only if there is a common co-ordinate system on which to plot them; yet the existence of a common system belies the claim of dramatic incomparability.

  Donald Davidson

  Views, Plot, Common

  Donald Davidson (2001). “Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays”, p.184, Oxford University Press

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• [The scientist] believes passionately in facts, in measured facts. He believes there are no bad facts, that all facts are good facts, though they may be facts about bad things, and his intellectual satisfaction can come only from the acquisition of accurately known facts, from their organization into a body of knowledge, in which the inter-relationship of the measured facts is the dominant consideration.

  Robert Watson-Watt

  Believe, Knowledge, Science

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• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

  Earl Nightingale

  Moving, Night, Mind

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.156, Lulu.com

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• If your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing the work, your triad of intentions - freedom, growth and joy - will come quickly and easily into alignment. See your "career" as one of creating a joyful life experience. You are not a creator of things or a regurgitator of what someone else has created or a gatherer of stuff. You are a creator, and the subject of your creation is your joyful life experience. That is your mission. That is your quest. That is why you are here.

  Esther Hicks

  Creativity, Careers, Creating

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• Take 15 minutes daily, thinking of pleasant scenarios regarding your body, with the sole intent of enjoying your body and appreciating its strength and stamina and flexibility and beauty. When you visualize for the joy of visualizing rather than with the intention of correcting some deficiency, your thoughts are more pure and, therefore, more powerful. When you visualize to overcome something that is wrong, your thoughts are diluted with the "lackful" side of the equation. In time, your physical condition will acquiesce to your dominant thoughts.

  Esther Hicks

  Powerful, Thinking, Appreciate

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• For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  School, Class, Agency

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• In order to learn true humility (I use this expression to describe the state of mind under discussion), it is good for a person to withdraw from the turmoil of the world (we see that Christ withdrew when the people wanted to proclaim him king as well as when he had to walk the thorny path), for in life either the depressing or the elevating impression is too dominant for a true balance to come about. Here, of course, individuality is very decisive.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Depressing, Kings, Humility

  "Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers: Autobiographical, 1829-1848". Book by Søren Kierkegaard and Gregor Malantschuk, p. 33, Journals 1A 68 (July 29, 1835), 1978.

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• Cooking professionally is a dominant act, at all times about control. Eating well, on the other hand, is about submission. It's about giving up all vestiges of control, about entrusting
  your fate entirely to someone else. It's about turning off the mean, manipulative, calculating, and shrewd person inside you, and slipping heedlessly into a new experience as if it were a
  warm bath. It's about shutting down the radar and letting good things happen. Let it happen to you.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Mean

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones”, p.105, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system over which it had previously presided. The profound instability of the interwar period owed much to Britain's inability to maintain its role.

  Martin Jacques

  Profound, Inability, Roles

  "Northern Rock's rescue is part of a geopolitical sea change" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2008.

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• I absolutely do prefer a dominant guy. I play a very dominant role in my life, in every other aspect of it. And I like to feel like a lady still, at some point. I feel like that's the time when a guy really gets to be a man, and I get to be a woman. And if I'm being a man in the bedroom too, there's nothing really in it for me.

  Rihanna

  Men, Play, Guy

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When the news first came that Japan had attacked us my first feeling was of relief that ... a crisis had come in a way which would unite all our people. This continued to be my dominant feeling in spite of the news of catastrophes which quickly developed.

  Henry L. Stimson

  War, Japan, People

  Henry L. Stimson (2016). “On Active Services In Peace And War”, p.262, Read Books Ltd

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• If an alien visitor were to hover a few hundred yards above the planet, it could be forgiven for thinking that cars were the dominant life form, and that human beings were a kind of ambulatory fuel cell: injected when the car wished to move off, and ejected when they were spent.

  Heathcote Williams

  Moving, Thinking, Cells

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• The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one, then the other partner is dominant.

  Joyce Brothers

  Firsts, Partners, Seesaw

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• It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.

  Clarence Darrow

  Law, Class, Community

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.79, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story.

  Esther Hicks

  Promise, Stories, Intention

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2010). “Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You get a series of super-typhoons into Shanghai and millions of people die. Does the population there lose faith in Chinese government? Does China start to fissure? I'd prefer to deal with a rising, dominant China any day.

  David Titley

  Government, People, Chinese

  "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

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• Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Cutting, Feminism

  "Sex, Art and American Culture: Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, p. 10, 1992.

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• Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

  Howard Nemerov

  Religious, War, Science

  Howard Nemerov (1978). “Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays”

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