Dominant Quotes - Page 16

• We are moving away from the old idea of leadership - leadership has less to do (now) with heroism. We don't look for... unblemished omnipotent heroes, but leaders who are complex, dependent, changeable... We do not need one dominant authority structure telling all our inner voices to shut up.

  Walter Truett Anderson

  Moving, Hero, Ideas

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• Today no matter where I'm going, no matter what I'm doing, no matter who I'm doing it with, it is my dominant intent to look for and find things that feel good when I see them, when I hear them, when I smell them, when I taste them, when I touch them. It is my dominant intent to solicit from experience and exaggerate and talk about and revel in the best of what I see around me here and now.

  Esther Hicks

  Spiritual, Law Of Attraction, Smell

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• This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.

  William J. Clinton

  America, Culture, Revolution

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• You attract your dominant thoughts.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Secret Law Of Attraction, Attraction

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• Evil was necessary because without it free will was impossible, and without free will there could be no growth—no forward movement, no chance for us to become what God longed for us to be. Horrible and all-powerful as evil sometimes seemed to be in a world like ours, in the larger picture love was overwhelmingly dominant, and it would ultimately be triumphant.

  Eben Alexander

  Powerful, Love Picture, Evil

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Men, Prejudice, Gender

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• Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Men, Attention

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.62, Vintage

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• The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Passion, Desire, Taste

  "France and Her Army". Book by Charles de Gaulle, 1938.

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• It's true that in Canada, we pride ourselves on the game, and we like to think we're the dominant hockey nation in the world.

  Steve Yzerman

  Hockey, Pride, Thinking

  Interview with Charlie Gillis, www.macleans.ca. February 11, 2010.

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• In a sense, whites who were always sort of the unthinking majority who didn't think of themselves necessarily as one among many interest groups but is simply the dominant group, now as whites become - are close to becoming a minority of Americans, are becoming a political interest group. And that's what Donald Trump is playing to. And it's a really dangerous, volatile game.

  George Packer

  Thinking, Games, Political

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.

  Henry Giroux

  Assumption, Ideology

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. If is unafraid of what other people think . . . It does not adapt either its pace or its objectives to the pace and objectives of its neighbors. It thinks its own thoughts, it reads its own books, it developed its own hobbies, and it is governed by its own conscience. The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.

  Raymond B. Fosdick

  Book, Thinking, Adventurous Life

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• The problem with trading dominant players of that size is you never get in return what you've bargained away.

  Phil Jackson

  Player, Return, Size

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• If you look at the statistics of fratricide or intra-sibling homicide, it's extremely rare. And look at Burke [Ramsey] and JonBenet at the time of her murder. She was the powerhouse, the firecracker; she's the dominant one, not him. I just don't see it. And as I recall, John Ramsey passed a lie detector test. I can unequivocally say that Burke is not the killer nor do I think John Ramsey is the killer. Let's leave it there.

  Nancy Grace

  Lying, Sibling, Thinking

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Generally, I start by observing the existing and popular narratives in my social spheres and media, and the pressures I face in my own life experiences. As someone who is "newly" trans, I am constantly thinking about what the dominant narratives are around transness, how my work can push against these narratives, and how it already falls into these traps.

  Vivek Shraya

  Fall, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The dominant type of humor in the '60s was essentially defensive and self-deprecating, using humor as a shield.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Self, Shields, Type

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the air age we were powerful because we had airplaines. Now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Powerful, Future, Space

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• Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Passion, Soul, Mold

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• Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.

  Robert E. Howard

  Oil, Bully, Fields

  Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, July 23, 1935.

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• What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Children, Fear, Thinking

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• I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

  Vivek Shraya

  Art, Use, Narrative

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Men, Ideas, Majority

  Leonard Peikoff (1983). “Ominous Parallels”, p.179, Penguin

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• Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.

  Karl Rove

  Party, Giving, Chance

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• India deliberately aggravated Sri Lanka's ethnic crisis. It destabilized Sri Lanka [by training and arming Tamil militants, including the Tigers] so that it could play a dominant role in bringing Sri Lanka within its sphere of influence.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Sri Lanka, Play, Training

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• Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in a world where certain conservative aspects had become intellectually dominant. I would actually argue against that, but on the surface of it, in the [Bill] Clinton years the market economy triumphed, certain libertarian ideas became ordinary, and certain early-20th-century ideas about centralization of government and economic planning and socialism with a small "s" had obviously gone out the window. The Cold War was over, blah blah blah.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, War, Government

  Source: www.avclub.com

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