Primaries Quotes - Page 17

• The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

  Richard Rohr

  Teacher, Ideas, Darkness

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• I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Ideas, World

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• The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion

  Marquis de Sade

  Beautiful, Quality

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• If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

  Albert Einstein

  Worry, Understanding, World

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• We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work is not to get people to join a church, to give up their bad habits, or to do anything other than to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior.

  R. A. Torrey

  Jesus, Giving Up, Mind

  "How To Bring Men To Christ".

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• The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.

  Robert Crais

  Dog, Smell, World

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• I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal.

  Harold S. Kushner

  People, Goal, Be Kind

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

  Dallas Willard

  Community, Creation, Aim

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• We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire,
  and so we live a mediocre life,
  never bringing to consummation
  the primary impulse of our heart.

  David Deida

  Heart, Desire, Mediocre Life

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• Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations.

  Emily Post

  Color, Manners, Certain

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• In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Mistake, Eye, Giving

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• The Most Secret Quintessence of Life is an original work filled with rich, new research, relying on important primary literature which has not, until now, been plumbed and digested. In this book, Chandak Sengoopta offers both a history of hormone discovery and a chronicle of how this discovery transformed our concepts of the body and how our existing concepts of sex and sexuality, in turn, informed our concepts for understanding hormones.

  Anne Fausto-Sterling

  Sex, Book, Discovery

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• Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of passage to a secure, autonomous existence.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Today, Wealth, Existence

  Jeremy Rifkin (1992). “Biosphere politics: a cultural odyssey from the middle ages to the new age”, HarperCollins

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• A leader always has one major message, and this weaves into everything he or she does. It remains the primary focus. A leader is to some degree a  prophet, a person with a message. Great leader [sic] see things that others don’t. They preach it until others can see it as well. Their message supports the mission. A leader is a preacher, a person who communicates the fire of the mission. Not all preachers are leaders, but all great leaders will be preachers of one sort or another.

  Phil Pringle

  Fire, Focus, Support

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• The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer.

  Gabriel Fackre

  Christian, Source, Theology

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• We are afraid that our adult sexuality will somehow damage our kids, that it’s inappropriate or dangerous. But whom are we protecting? Children who see their primary caregivers at ease expressing their affection (discreetly, within appropriate boundaries) are more likely to embrace sexuality with the healthy combination of respect, responsibility, and curiosity it deserves. By censoring our sexuality, curbing our desires, or renouncing them altogether, we hand our inhibitions intact to the next generation.

  Esther Perel

  Children, Kids, Responsibility

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• If you don’t believe in your product, or if you’re not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work.

  Jay Conrad Levinson

  Believe, Odds, Marketing

  Jay Conrad Levinson, Seth Godin (1994). “The Guerrilla Marketing Handbook”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore these basic facts, resulting in some of the least intelligent devices I've seen yet. Oh the irony.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Intelligent, Phones, Facts

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• My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

  Dana Snyder

  Humanity, Interest, Humans

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• The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something, but to know Someone.

  David Platt

  Prayer, Purpose, Knows

  Twitter post from Dec 12, 2014

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• The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.

  George Washington

  Country, Encouragement, Art

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1839). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.467

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• Jazz is a music that really allows a person to express his deepest self, his most personal self - Africa being the primary source of jazz. Naturally, improvisation and swing are a part of jazz, improvisation being the key.

  Harold Land

  Keys, Swings, Self

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• The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Water, Taoism

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• The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother

  Nancy Chodorow

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• A man goes through many changes in 2000 meters. Some are not very pretty. Some make you hate yourself. Some make you wonder if you've been rowing for only three or four days. To avoid that fate, we prepared for all possibilities. If a meteor landed 10 feet off our stern, we would not blink. [We] Would be aware, yet impassive, to the outside world. Every ounce of energy would be funneled into the water, and not wasted by looking around, worrying about opponents, wondering about things that didn't concern our primary goal-to be the first across the finish line.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Hate, Fate, Men

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