Inevitable Quotes - Page 2

• Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Yoga, Apology, Effort

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1969). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

  Isaac Asimov

  Change, Business, Mean

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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  A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

  Chuck Noll

  Motivational Sports, Athlete, Frustration

  "Chuck Noll, Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers coach, dies at 82", www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2014.

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• Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Science, Fiction

  1975 'How Easy To See The Future', in Natural History, Apr.

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• It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

  Isaac Asimov

  Change, Past, Continuing On

  1978 'My Own View', in R Holdstock (ed) Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1978).

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• Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” Then repeat to yourself the most comforting of all words , “This too shall pass.”

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Since You Ask Me".

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• A firm that continues to employ a previously successful strategy eventually and inevitably falls victim to a competitor.

  William Cohen

  Fall, Successful, Competition

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• Amongst the friends of Allah (Awliya), the Qur'an is considered as a love letter from Allah, which inevitably is read continuously to remind them of their Beloved.

  Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

  God, Reading, Islamic

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• The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

  Amelia Barr

  Hopeful, Found, Ready

  Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.56, Litres

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• Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Democracy, Obstacles, Rebellious

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.206, Routledge

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• Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Science, Long, Measurement

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• On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

  Emma Goldman

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.172, Library of Alexandria

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• A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Language, Ancient, States

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• Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Progress

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

  David Harvey

  Change, Freedom, Exercise

  David Harvey (2010). “Social Justice and the City”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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• No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

  Isaac Asimov

  Motivational, Future, Continuing On

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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• An adolescent does not rebel against her parents. She rebels against their power. If parents would rely less on power and more on nonpower methods to influence their children from infancy on, there would be little for children to rebel against when they become adolescents. The use of power to change the behavior of children, then, has this severe limitation: parents inevitably run out of power, and sooner than they think.

  Thomas Gordon

  Running, Children, Parenting

  "Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children".

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• Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice.

  Christopher Reeve

  Pain, Choices, Misery

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• Courage would be impossible in a world without pain.

  Lee Strobel

  Pain, Suffering, Would Be

  Lee Strobel (2000). “The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Life Changing, Change Is Inevitable, Business Change

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• Cause, frankly, the way I see it, you and me? Inevitable.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Way, Causes

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• It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

  Norma Shearer

  Enemy, Doers, Toes

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

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• Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.

  Tony Blair

  Community, Conflict, Accepting

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• Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Thomas Wolfe (2016). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.511, Thomas Wolfe

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• To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Profound, Cosmos, Purpose

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