Ideals Quotes - Page 34

• When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

  Herbert Croly

  Promise, Matter, Purpose

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.24, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

  Susan Cain

  Disappointment, Self, Our Society

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• In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who’s comfortable "putting himself out there."

  Susan Cain

  Thinking, Self, Individuality

  "The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. January 24, 2012.

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• We see people voting for bills that their ideals and principles are opposed to, but because their little funding project is in there, they're voting for it. We might say it's one percent of all spending but the impact of that spending is far greater.

  Sean Duffy

  Impact, People, Voting

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• Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

  Emma Donoghue

  Parent, Know How, Knows

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• Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

  Charles Edison

  Government, Democratic Ideals, Boss

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• You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience.

  Crispin Glover

  Jobs, Thinking, World

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• The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out.

  Debbie Gibson

  Drama, People, Would Be

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• When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television - and I do a lot of television - you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray.

  Erin Gray

  Reality, Play, Quality

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• The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.

  Gordon Gee

  Art, Inspire, Soul

  "Of Leibovitz and Lear" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2012.

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• My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

  Gordon Getty

  Personality, Century, Music Is

  "I want to make the world better" by Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

  Spencer Abraham

  School, America, Ratios

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• I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.

  Jennifer Egan

  Memories, Past, Thinking

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• One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective.... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero.

  Carolyn Wheat

  Hero, Writing, Hands

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• Lost my ideals in that tunnel of time.

  Jim Croce

  Reality, Tunnels, Lost

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• The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.

  Jackson Browne

  Reality, Wind, Dancing

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• My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true.

  Bob Dylan

  Silence, Faithful, Quality

  Song: Love Minus Zero, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see this phenomenon only in terms of changing ideals of bodily appearance (such as slimness or youthfulness), or as solely brought about by the commodifying influence of advertising. We become responsible for the design of our own bodies, and in a certain sense noted above are forced to do so the more post-traditional the social contexts in which we move.

  Anthony Giddens

  Moving, Adoption, Design

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.107, John Wiley & Sons

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• The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

  Susan Sontag

  Health, May, Imagine

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

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• Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.

  Billy Bragg

  Poetry, Guilt, Answers

  Song: I Don't Need This Pressure Ron

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• In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Risk, Lists

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• My ideal guy would be funny and fun to be around.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Fun, Guy, Would Be

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.

  Robert Delaunay

  Paris, Research, World

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• I was telling somebody just the other day, there's technically such a hierarchy in this business. You have film, that's the ideal; then you have TV, and things like web series do not claim as much cred, but the fact is, if the material is solid and I believe and trust in the team that's involved, I don't care what format it is.

  Tony Hale

  Team, Believe, Care

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• Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

  Johnny Isakson

  Government, Hands, Spending

  "Johnny Isakson Says Sequestration Not A Concern In Georgia, But Constituents Disagree" by Amanda Terkel, Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2013.

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