Orientation Quotes - Page 10

• Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Mean, Practice

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• I think Donald Trump is dividing the American people. He is not good for America. It's not good for our standing in the rest of the world. To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it's just ... it's just wrong.

  John Lewis

  Thinking, Color, America

  "The Long March of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Country, Japan, Asia

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• Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself-in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what others will do, or what roles they will assign to him, and he depends on them-and if they don't do anything or if they botch things, he succumbs to disillusion, despair, and ultimately, resignation.

  Vaclav Havel

  Inspirational, Strength, Organization

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• I think everyone is bi, right? There's no such thing as sexual orientation, or race, or gender. Those are all obsolete man-made concepts.

  Eric Andre

  Men, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.towleroad.com

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• The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Essence, Goal, Lust

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1967). “Letters and Papers from Prison”

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• When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for ALL - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.

  Christine Pelosi

  Apology, Color, Talking

  "Careful, 'Having It All' Women, Your Privilege Is Showing" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• I will represent all of the people of Ohio, regardless of their background. I don't care if you are a Democrat, a Republican, a Libertarian or a vegetarian, I will be blind to race, religion or any kind of orientation.

  Josh Mandel

  Race, Ohio, People

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• We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.

  Virginia E. Johnson

  Preference

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• From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.

  Tammy Baldwin

  "Tammy Baldwin Enters Senate Race in Wisconsin" by Caitlin Huey-Burns, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 6, 2011.

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• A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. (...) [T]he selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances.

  Anthony Giddens

  Role Models, Unity, Important

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• … what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like “Structured Analysis and Design”, “Software Engineering”, “Maturity Models”, “Management Information Systems”, “Integrated Project Support Environments” “Object Orientation” and “Business Process Re-engineering”.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Maturity, Engineering, Snakes

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• There's no question that homophobia is rampant among the world's 1.5 billion Muslims - but that doesn't negate the fact that there are huge groups of Muslims who have easily reconciled their faith and sexual orientation, like LGBT people in other faith communities.

  Reza Aslan

  People, Community, Groups

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• I think that a person cannot be criminally or otherwise prosecuted, his or her rights cannot be infringed upon the grounds of nationality, ethnicity or sexual orientation in the modern world. It is absolutely unacceptable. And it is not the case in Russia.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Russia, Rights

  Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Country, Rights, People

  "Senator Feinstein Supports Stronger Military Via Bill to End 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell'" by Craig Newmark, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2010.

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• I really think that people's right to happiness shouldn't be dictated by some policymaker in Washington, D.C. I've come to know a lot of people that - sexual orientation is such where they're in love with people from the same sex, and I just don't think it's our role in the government to say, 'No you can't be married.'

  Jon Tester

  Happiness, Sex, Thinking

  "Jon Tester Explains Gay Marriage Evolution" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013.

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• Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human things.

  Hozier

  Sex, Natural, Humans

  "Hozier celebrates Irish vote on gay marriage" by Jayme Deerwester, www.usatoday.com. May 23, 2015.

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• Photography, precisely because it can only be produced in the present and because it is based on what exists objectively before the camera, takes its place as the most satisfactory medium for registering objective life in all its aspects, and from this comes its documental value. If to this is added sensibility and understanding and, above all, a clear orientation as to the place it should have in the field of historical development, I believe that the result is something worthy of a place in social production, to which we should all contribute.

  Tina Modotti

  Photography, Believe, Should Have

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• When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.

  Billie Jean King

  Race, Doors, People

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• I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation.

  Chaz Bono

  Believe, People, Different

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• Apart from the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub.

  H. Richard Niebuhr

  Jesus, Easter, Church

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• Ultimately, the wisest course for anybody who's afflicted with same-gender attraction is to strive to extend one's horizon beyond just one's sexual orientation, one's gender orientation, and to try to see the whole person.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Trying, Horizon, Strive

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• There's no denial that one's gender orientation is certainly a core characteristic of any person, but it's not the only one.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Denial, Gender, Characteristics

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Liberals claim to love gays when it allows them to vent their spleen at Republicans. But disagree with liberals and their first response is to call you gay. Liberals are gays' biggest champions on issues most gays couldn't care less about, like gay marriage or taxpayer funding of photos of men with bullwhips up their derrieres. But who has done more to out, embarrass, and destroy the lives of gay men who prefer to keep their orientation private than Democrats? Who is more intolerant of gays in the Republican Party than gays in the Democratic Party?

  Ann Coulter

  Party, Gay, Men

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• Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive.

  Brian Tracy

  Action, Mark, Executives

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Sep 29, 2015

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