Ideals Quotes - Page 27

• In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and knowledge, not to mention their commitment to access for all—librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy, and they’re right. Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the Ph.D…In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

  Marilyn Johnson

  Commitment, Loss, Player

  Marilyn Johnson (2010). “This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.

  Joshua

  Dream, Men, Purpose

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• First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Philosophy, Real

  "Klee, A Study of His Life and Work". Book by Gualtieri Di San Lazzaro, 1964.

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• When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Home, Needs, World

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• Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.

  Susan Griffin

  Change, Hate, Self

  Susan Griffin (2015). “Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature”, p.170, Open Road Media

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• I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

  Bianca Jagger

  Europe, Viewpoints, World

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• We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".

  Swami Vivekananda

  Wise, Caring, Lions

  Babaji Bob Kindler, Annapurna Sarada, Swami Vivekananda, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Kenneth Wapnick (2002). “Nectar #7: The Excellence of Sacrifice and Self-Effort”, p.24, Sarada Ramakrishna Vivekananda Associations

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• A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an ideal mind, but it will help the actual mind to approximate that ideal.

  Harold Jeffreys

  Mind, Details, Helping

  Harold Jeffreys (1998). “The Theory of Probability”, p.421, OUP Oxford

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• I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.

  Picabo Street

  People, Mold, Path

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• Walking is the number one exercise for your feet as well as your body. Barefoot walking is the ideal.

  Stephanie Tourles

  Exercise, Journey, Hiking

  Stephanie Tourles (1998). “Natural Foot Care: Herbal Treatments, Massage, and Exercises for Healthy Feet”, Storey Publishing

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• The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.

  Leonard Boswell

  Opportunity, Equality, Years

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• No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Fashion, Purses, Fats

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• It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.

  Richard Wilbur

  Self, Mind, Doe

  Richard Wilbur's National Book Award Acceptance Speech for the poetry award for "Things of This World", www.nationalbook.org. 1957.

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• To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

  Major Taylor

  Success, Umpires, Track

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.

  George Takei

  Country, Father, Blood

  "CJAD" with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. November 21, 1994.

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• The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

  Josiah Royce

  Lonely, Home, Heart

  Josiah Royce (2015). “The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures”, p.353, Courier Dover Publications

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• Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But for all that, would he experience the phenomena of inspiration? His human documentation gathered from inspired poets could hardly be related, except from the exterior, in an ideal of objective observations. Comparison of inspired poets would soon make us lose sight of inspiration.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Inspiration, Sight, Documentation

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• An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Work, Expression, Organization

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.86, Penguin

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• . . . it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two other reasons. One is to construct an ideal goal, so that incremental changes can be judged by whether they move the institutional structure toward or away from that ideal. The other reason is very different. It is so that if a crisis requiring or facilitating radical change does arise, alternatives will be available that have been carefully developed and fully explored.

  Milton Friedman

  Change, Moving, Two

  Milton Friedman, Kurt R. Leube (1987). “The essence of Friedman”, Hoover Inst Pr

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• Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes.

  Dave Snowden

  Change, Long, Saint

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• I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I”, p.5, Basic Books

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• My ideal Valentine's Day is spending it with someone you are in love with and for that someone to make you feel loved and appreciated.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Valentines Day, Valentine's Day, Appreciated

  "How Candice Swanepoel is Spending Valentine's Day". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. February 8, 2013.

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• The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.

  Aldous Huxley

  Lying, Men, Names

  Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.133, Ivan R. Dee

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• He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence

  Jack Kerouac

  Fate, Psychosis, Violence

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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• In general, an ideal partner is (a) open and nondefensive, (b) honest and nonduplicitous, (c) affectionate and easy-going, (d) mentally and physically healthy, (e) independent and successful in his or her chosen career or lifestyle, and (f) aware of a meaningful existence that includes humanitarian values.

  Robert W. Firestone

  Meaningful, Independent, Successful

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