Giving Quotes - Page 19

• Our attitude can give us an uncommonly positive perspective.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Perspective, Stay Positive

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man makes a wheelbarrow, or a book, or a picture, he has a moral right to that particular wheelbarrow, or book, or picture, but no right to ask that others be prevented from making similar things. Such a prohibition, though given for the purpose of stimulating discovery and invention, really in the long run operates as a check upon them.

  Henry George

  Running, Book, Men

  Henry George (1916). “Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; the Remedy”

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• You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

  Judith Martin

  Real, Attention, Letters

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• I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

  Suzy Bogguss

  Song, Past, Ideas

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• And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.

  Hart Crane

  Beautiful, Journey, Hands

  Brom Weber, Hart Crane (1970). “Hart Crane: a biographical and critical study”

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• Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent. Only no-mind is original and radical. Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution in action. The mind gives you a sort of stupor. Burdened by the memories of the past, burdened by the projections of the future, you go on living - at the minimum. You dont live at the maximum. Your flame remains very dim. Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Intelligent, Past

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• I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

  Patricia Ireland

  Christian, Belief, Insight

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• The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

  Jules Renard

  Men, Dinner, Excuse

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• To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest foe real progress.

  Tahir Shah

  Real, Self, Humanity

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• I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give.  Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives.

  Eric Thomas

  Real, Sacrifice, People

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• I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for little money, and make my shows worthy the support of the moral and refined classes.

  P. T. Barnum

  Thinking, Class, Support

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• You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow of a suspicion that it will give.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Doubt, Shadow, Weight

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 599), 1895.

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• Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do. Tell us that at the end of the day there will at least be one redeeming card of our very own. Lord, if it is not too much to ask, send us to bed with a few shreds of self-respect upon which we can congratulate ourselves. But whatever you do, do not preach grace. Give us something to do, anything; but spare us the indignity of this indiscriminate acceptance.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Acceptance, Self, Grace

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• It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Tasks, Needs, Programming

  "Answers to questions from students of Software Engineering" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. November 28, 2000.

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• We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people; sometimes they follow it!

  Edsger Dijkstra

  People, Advice, Sometimes

  "The Humble Programmer". Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.

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• If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism to which the respectability of society will give its thorough approval.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Liberty, Speech, Approval

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.

  Aidan Chambers

  Mean, Thinking, Attention

  Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.552, Random House

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• You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.

  Aidan Chambers

  Giving Up, Despair, Sticks

  "Postcards from No Man's Land". Book by Aidan Chambers, January 7, 1999.

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• Surrounding myself with people I enjoy being with made the sessions effortless. Everyone came prepared and ready to play. All were great musicians and they came to the studio to give everything they had.

  Stanley Clarke

  Play, People, Musician

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• I am dead because I have no desire,
  I have no desire because I think I possess,
  I think I possess because I do not try to give;
  Trying to give, we see that we have nothing;
  Seeing that we have nothing, we try to give ourselves,
  Trying to give ourselves, we see that we are nothing,
  Seeing that we are nothing, we desire to become,
  Desiring to become, we live.

  Rene Daumal

  Thinking, Desire, Trying

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• I look forward serenely to the course of events, confident that the Fountain of supreme wisdom and virtue will provide for the happiness of his creatures... Whenever the present storm subsides, I shall rush with eagerness into the bosom of private life, but while it continues, and while my country calls for the exertion of that little share of abilities, which it has pleased God to bestow on me, I hold it my indispensable duty to give myself to her.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Country, Storm, Events

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• If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter one of human history -- a long and uneventful chapter. Their chapter of human history ended about ten thousand years ago with the birth of agriculture in the Near East. This event marked the beginning of chapter two, the chapter of the Takers. It's true there are still Leavers living in the world, but these are anachronisms, fossils -- people living in the past, people who just don't realize that their chapter of human history is over. '

  Daniel Quinn

  Mother, Past, Two

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.42, Bantam

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• To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the world splendid men and women-isn't that the noblest thing a woman could possibly do?

  Jessie Willcox Smith

  Children, Men, Careers

  Catherine Connell Stryker, Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott, Violet Oakley (1976). “The Studios at Cogslea: Delaware Art Museum, February 20-March 28, 1976”

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• The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry

  Rosa DeLauro

  Oil, Energy, Reform

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• Tell me I'm beautiful, it's nothing. Tell me I'm intellectual - I know it. Tell me I'm funny and it's the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.

  Julie Newmar

  Beautiful, Intellectual, World

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