Orientation Quotes - Page 5

• When people run a business and open their door to the public, they must serve the public. That doesn't mean they can't say whatever they want to say. It doesn't mean they can't believe whatever they want to believe. Those are protected also. But businesses must serve the public. And that's a principle that we fought for in this country over many, many decades, when some were invoking religious freedom as an excuse to deny people on the basis of their race, on the basis of their religion, on the basis of sex and on the basis now of sexual orientation. Let's not confuse one thing with the other.

  Chris Christie

  Running, Country, Religious

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• ... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Real, Doors, People

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• Although we have not assigned God a sexual orientation, a height, or eye color, we have thought nothing of assigning a gender and a religion (God always belongs to the same one we do).

  Rosalie Maggio

  God, Eye, Color

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• The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves with single-minded devotion into the bottle and marital breakdown. The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you've generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life - like drinking and sleeping, and if you're lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Drinking, Sleep, Home

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho”, p.33, Del Rey

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• Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowledge and their evaluative systems so as both to locate themselves and their projects in some larger imaginative structure that makes sense to them. ... Furthermore, many modern agents would like it to be the case that the form of orientation which their life has is, if not true, at least compatible with the best available knowledge.

  Raymond Geuss

  Agents, Might, Way

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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• Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world, having a sense of the positive meaningfulness of one's existence, and having a fixed set of rules for behavior, but these elements are in principle separable. ... The "metaphysical need," ... both Marx and Nietzsche held, is a historical phenomenon that arises under determinate circumstances, and could be expected to disappear under other circumstances that we could relatively easily envisage.

  Raymond Geuss

  Historical, Principles, Needs

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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• Ultimately, of course, there is no excuse for being fat in this culture. It's the one last prejudice we allow ourselves, the final frontier of acceptable segregation. Our political correctness is positively Californian when it comes to race, creed, origin, and orientation. But we still condemn ourselves and others for this last intolerable offense in an annoyingly tolerant society.

  Joni Rodgers

  Race, Political, Prejudice

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• if there ever was a time for sentimentality and traditional merrymaking, one that has transcended religious orientation, Christmas must be that time. The effect seems salutary: even people who ordinarily are as colorful and gay as groundworms, who would dare not consider a flamboyant gesture, hang long strings of brightly colored lights around their houses, trim Christmas trees, and talk to strangers.

  Anna Thomas

  Christmas, Religious, Gay

  Anna Thomas (1972). “The Vegetarian Epicure”, Vintage

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• Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.

  Ian Gawler

  Future, Past, Goal

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• we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Power, Would Be, Needs

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• [On gay ban in the military:] Heroism, I believe, is a trait that does not know race, color, creed, sex, or sexual orientation.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Sex, Military, Believe

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• It isn't that it's questionable when you speak up for the right of people with different sexual orientation. People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation. People are killed because they're gay.

  Desmond Tutu

  Gay, Ethnicity, People

  "Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• It is nothing to celebrate that one is gay. Us heterosexuals have never celebrated our orientation. This cheering of gays is disruptive to our society. You can almost get the impression that it is better to be homosexual than heterosexual. I think this is very sad.

  Carl I. Hagen

  Cheer, Gay, Thinking

  Carl I. Hagen's comment in connection with the annual "Europride", June 24, 2005.

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• I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Thinking, Chinese

  "Ai Weiwei: 'China's art world does not exist'" by Ai Weiwei:, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2012.

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• That's what running does to lives. It's not just exercise. It's not just achievement. It's a daily discipline that has nothing to do with speed, weight, social status, sexual orientation, political affiliation, where you live, what car you drive, or whether anyone anywhere loves you. It's about the slow and painful process of being the best you can be.

  Martin Dugard

  Running, Love You, Exercise

  Martin Dugard (2011). “To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)”, p.230, Rodale

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• Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.

  Tom Peters

  Team, Commitment, Focus

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• O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  People, Heaven, Earth

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• Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Disappointment, Political, May

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• The way you talk about yourself and your life-your story-has a great deal to do with what shows up in your day-to-day experience. Your thoughts create filters through which you view your life. If you think of yourself as a Victim, you filter all that happens to you through the lens of DDT, and you find plenty of evidence to support that viewpoint. That's why the orientation you adopt is so important: it exerts a powerful influence on your life direction.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Powerful, Thinking, Views

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• Living from the Creator Orientation is actually more challenging. In the Victim Orientation, I didn't have to exercise conscious choice; I just reacted to my circumstances.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Exercise, Choices, Challenges

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• The focus in the Creator Orientation is on a Vision or an Outcome. You orient your thoughts and actions toward creating what you most deeply want to see or experience in life.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Creating, Focus, Vision

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• The four main orientations of Morocco's foreign policy: the Maghreb, the Arab world, Africa and other partners

  Saad-Eddine El Othmani

  Morocco, World, Four

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• The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.

  Seth Klarman

  Long, Investing, Term

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• Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all - every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.

  Bella Abzug

  Women, Race, Age

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• Faith is an orientation of the total person, giving purpose and goal to one's hopes and strivings, thoughts and actions.

  James W. Fowler

  Faith, Giving, Goal

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