Identifying Quotes - Page 2

• The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science and information are the potential friends of all nations. Classical diplomacy and strategy were aimed at identifying enemies and confronting them. Now they have to identify dangers, global or local, and tackle them before they become disasters.

  Shimon Peres

  Religious, Science, Drug

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• Creativity is the generation and initial development of new, useful ideas. Innovation is the successful implementation of those ideas in an organization. Thus, no innovation is possible without the creative processes that mark the front end of the process: identifying important problems and opportunities, gathering relevant information, generating new ideas, and exploring the validity of those ideas.

  Teresa Amabile

  Creativity, Successful, Opportunity

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• Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it be.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Church, Missionary

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• This is not only a possible breach of national security; it is a potential violation of law. Under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, it is a crime for anyone who has access to classified information to disclose intentionally information identifying a covert agent.

  David Corn

  Law, Identity, Agents

  "A White House Smear" by David Corn, www.thenation.com. July 16, 2003.

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• Start by identifying the qualities or characteristics that make you distinctive from your competitors - or your colleagues. What have you done lately - this week - to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?

  Tom Peters

  Quality, Done, Week

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• And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

  Daniel Nathans

  Medical, Genes, Protein

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• However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consiously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that drive the habits' routines, and find alternatives. You must know you have control and be self-conscious enough to use it -- and every chapter in this book is devoted to illustrating a different aspect of why that control is real.

  Charles Duhigg

  Real, Book, Hard Work

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• People often get racism mixed up with bigotry or prejudice. We need to get our terminology straightened out. We obviously have racial problems that need solving. The first step in solving a problem is to identify it. If we keep mis-identifying bigotry and prejudice as racism we'll never make any headway

  Neal Boortz

  Racism, People, Firsts

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• Unless we understand what it is that leads to economic and financial instability, we cannot prescribe -- make policy -- to modify or eliminate it. Identifying a phenomenon is not enough; we need a theory that makes instability a normal result in our economy and gives us handles to control it.

  Hyman Minsky

  Giving, Needs, Normal

  Hyman Minsky (2008). “Stabilizing an Unstable Economy, Part 3 - Economic Theory”, p.111, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important. But if learning is to persist, managers and employees must also look inward. The need to reflect critically on their own behaviour, identify the ways they often inadvertently contribute to the organisation’s problems, and then change how they act.

  Chris Argyris

  Errors, People, Focus

  "Teaching Smart People How to Learn". hbr.org. June 1991.

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• Entrepreneurship is essentially identifying the path that everyone takes; and choosing a different, better way.

  Sheldon Adelson

  Different, Way, Path

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• Reason alone cannot give you a whole steak, but it sure helps with identifying bologna.

  Peter Kreeft

  Giving, Bologna, Helping

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• According to Ayurvedic principles, by understanding oneself, by identifying one's own constitution, and by recognizing sources of doshic aggravation, one can not only follow the proper guidelines to cleanse, purify, and prevent disease, but also uplift oneself into a realm of awareness previously unknown.

  Vasant Lad

  Uplifting, Aggravation, Medicine

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• There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "The Wisdom of Saint Marshall, the Holy Fool" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. January 01, 1996.

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• You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

  Kenneth Burke

  Attitude, Men, Order

  Kenneth Burke (1969). “A Rhetoric of Motives”, p.55, Univ of California Press

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• Work to connect yourself to the allness of life -- instead of identifying with the smallness of it -- and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it.

  Guy Finley

  Rain, Fall, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Feb 13, 2013

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• How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Stars, Moving, Long

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• Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Order, Soul, Important

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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• Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light, radiant, infinite mind of the universe, as it is, without identifying with qualities

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Self

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• The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

  Arthur Koestler

  Society, Groups, Killers

  Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage

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• But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.

  Gangaji

  Reflection, Self, Defense

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• Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.

  Robert E. Terwilliger

  Life, Commitment, Finding Yourself

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• There is an intrinsic law: thoughts don't have their own life. They are parasites; they live on your identifying with them. When you say, 'I am angry,' you are pouring life energy into anger, because you are getting identified with anger. But when you say, 'I am watching anger flashing on the screen of the mind within me,' you are not anymore giving any life, any energy to anger.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Law, Giving

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• I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.

  Billy Tauzin

  Fashion, Thinking, Support

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• I don't mind the audience identifying me with Red.

  Kurtwood Smith

  Red Lipstick, Mind, Audience

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