Middle Ground Quotes - Page 4

• There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  World, Way, Intention

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• It's been kind of extreme - people either love it or they don't like it at all - and I think that's a good thing. It's my first art project where there's not a middle ground. I find it very interesting. But the negative feedback hasn't at all kept me from doing it, obviously. Because I haven't really gotten any negative feedback that I feel is really warranted.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Art, Thinking, People

  "Meet the Woman Who Waged an Artistic War Against Her Street Harassers". Interview with Nina Liss-schultz, www.motherjones.com. November 27, 2013.

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• ..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

  James A. Garfield

  Race, Slavery, Remember

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2”, p.790, Best Books on

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• The art of banking is always to balance the risk of a run with the reward of a profit. The tantalizing factor in the equation is that riskier borrowers pay higher interest rates. Ultimate safety - a strongbox full of currency - would avail the banker nothing. Maximum risk - a portfolio of loans to prospective bankrupts at usurious interest rates - would invite disaster. A good banker safely and profitably treads the middle ground.

  James Grant

  Running, Art, Safety

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• The mind is either at war with God or it is being renewed. There is no middle ground.

  Bill Johnson

  War, Mind, Middle

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• All the best movies are the ones that are cut from a more middle ground.

  Kristen Schaal

  Cutting, Middle, All The Best

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. January 20, 2011.

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• Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?

  Richard Russo

  Adventure, Middle

  Richard Russo (2017). “Nobody's Fool”, p.8, Atlantic Books

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• I'm not a political person. I don't understand politics, I don't understand the concept of two sides and I think that probably there's good on both sides, bad on both sides, and there's a middle ground, but it never seems to come to the middle ground and it's very frustrating watching it and seemingly we're not moving forward.

  David Lynch

  Moving, Thinking, Two Sides

  "Scene by Scene" on BBC 2, 1999.

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• I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  World, Boring, Moderation

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• We are cast as combatants in the war between truth and error. There is no middle ground. We must stand up for truth, even while we practice tolerance and respect for beliefs and ideas different from our own and for the people who hold them.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  War, Errors, Practice

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• Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow. The sooner you identify that bliss, which surely resides in the soul of most human beings, the greater your chance of a truly successful life. In the act of creativity, being careful guarantees sameness and mediocrity, which means your work will be invisible. Better to be reckless than careful. Better to be bold than safe. Better to have your work seen and remembered, or you've struck out. There is no middle ground.

  George Lois

  Love You, Heart, Creativity

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• The exact process you use to build courage isn't important. What's important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles will atrophy if you don't regularly stress them, your courage will atrophy if you don't consistently challenge yourself to face down your fears. In the absence of this kind of conscious conditioning, you'll automatically become weak in both body and mind. If you aren't regularly exercising your courage, then you are strengthening your fear by default; there is no middle ground.

  Steve Pavlina

  Fear, Stress, Exercise

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• A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely, to demand the right to marry not as a way of adhering to society's moral codes but rather to debunk a myth and radically alter an archaic institution. [Legalizing "same-sex marriage"] is also a chance to wholly transform the definition of family in American culture.

  Michelangelo Signorile

  Sex, Fighting, Marriage Equality

  "How We Got to the Supreme Court" by Michelangelo Signorile, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2013.

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• I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Believe, Church, Superficial

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• I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Loss, Firsts

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• To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be done by not being beaten in the argument with our critics. They complain that I come down too hard on their arguments. But wrong ideas have to be challenged before they influence public opinion and make for problems. Those who try to be clever at the expense of the government should not complain if my replies are as sharp as their criticisms.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Clever, Winning, Government

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• We all hold on to some image of the family we want, based one way or another on the family we had. Lots of people are thrilled about the families they came from, others couldn't get away fast enough. Most people fall into that vast middle ground: great affection mixed with a few ideas for improvement. A couple of things they wish could have perhaps been done differently.

  Paul Reiser

  Couple, Fall, Ideas

  "Familyhood". Book by Paul Reiser, www.today.com. May 09, 2011.

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