Ideals Quotes - Page 9

• Hypocrisy means deliberately pretending. None of us lives up to his ideals; none of us is all that he would like to be or all that he could be in Christ. But that is not hypocrisy. Falling short of our ideals is not hypocrisy. Pretending we have reached our ideals when we have not - that is hypocrisy.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Fall, Hypocrite, Mean

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• In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.

  Abraham Maslow

  Education, College, Long

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• When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Past, Garden

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.

  Shana Alexander

  Get Well, Recovery, Sleep

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.

  R. D. Laing

  Spiritual, Self, Mad

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on the rock because the wind and rain have ruined his house on the sand.

  Constance Naden

  Wisdom, Rain, Heart

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• The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who changes spaces, who circulates, who changes sex, clothes, and habits according to fashion, rather than morality, and who changes opinions not as his conscience dictates but in response to opinion polls.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Funny, Fashion, Sex

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• The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

  Sophocles

  Learning, Men, Intuition

  Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

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• Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.

  Calvin Seerveld

  Spiritual, Art, Wrestling

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• One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal as a professor should be to conduct oneself as an admirable human being: just, kind, tolerant, competent, committed, and good-humored.

  Robert Audi

  Teaching, Long, Unconventional

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• What I remember best from those times is the music itself. When it succeded, we took hold of the audience's attention, working it from a distracted, unshaped mass into spun beauty, passing the fine strands back and forth until we wove together something grander, not only music but memory, too-the particulars of past and present, stretched taut across a loom of timeless ideals. Harmony. Symmetry. Order.

  Andromeda Romano-Lax

  Memories, Past, Order

  Andromeda Romano-Lax (2008). “The Spanish Bow”, p.279, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a parody, but if you act masculine, it is seen as a sign of your true male identity. And if you act sweet and demure, you're accused of reinforcing patriarchal ideals of female passivity, but if you stand up for your own rights and make your voice heard, then you are dismissed as wielding male privilege and entitlement.

  Julia Serano

  Sweet, Rights, Voice

  Julia Serano (2013). “Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive”, p.20, Seal Press

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• I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.

  Fred Reed

  Thinking, Organization, May

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• The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart.'

  Annie Fellows Johnston

  Heart, Ambition, Twenties

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• At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I’m a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they’re mine, so who cares.

  Rachel Kushner

  Book, Reading, Home

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• While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.

  Debashis Chatterjee

  Leadership, Motivation, Real

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• The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.

  Rafael Sabatini

  True Love, Men

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.8614, Delphi Classics

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• Business isn't some disembodied bloodless enterprise. Profit is fine - a sign that the customer honors the value of what we do. But "enterprise" ( a lovely word ) is about heart. About beauty. It's about art. About people throwing themselves on the line. It's about passion and the selfless pursuit of an ideal.

  Tom Peters

  Art, Passion, Creativity

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• This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

  Lord Byron

  Real, Reality, Adoration

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.115, Xist Publishing

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• Our relationship would never vary from its allegiance to the shared values, the shared religious heritage, the shared democratic politics which have made the relationship between the United States and Israel a special-even on occasion a wonderful-relationship ... The United States admires Israel for all that it has overcome and for all that it has accomplished. We are proud of the strong bond we have forged with Israel, based on our shared values and ideals. That unique relationship will endure just as Israel has endured.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Strong, Unique

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• There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives, elevating our ideals, deepening our tolerance, and sharpening our appetite for knowledge about the rest of the world. Educational and cultural exchanges...provide a perfect opportunity for this precious spark to grow, making us more sensitive and wiser international citizens through our careers.

  Ronald Reagan

  Educational, Opportunity, Careers

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• We are indebted to the Book of books (Bible) for our national ideals and institution. Their preservation rests in adhering to it's precepts.

  Herbert Hoover

  Bible, Book, Presidential

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• Being critical of the nation is a far cry from being unpatriotic or anti-American. In fact, most social criticism . . . is based on a love of America's ideals and a concern we're not living up to them.

  Robert Reich

  America, Political, Criticism

  Robert B. Reich (2004). “Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America”, p.114, Vintage

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• Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family of biblical days. The Old Testament is clear that this was a strong patriarchal family. Men were permitted several wives and concubines. Children were legitimately conceived by these concubines outside of marriage. . . . Is this the Evangelical's idea of an ideal family?

  Ira Reiss

  Strong, Children, Biblical

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• You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.

  Leon Blum

  Reality, Realism, Realms

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