Provoking Quotes - Page 21

• No one provokes me with impunity.

  Mary, Queen of Scots

  Punishment, Impunity

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• The urge to break with a tradition is only appropriate when you're dealing with an outdated, troublesome tradition: I never really thought about that because I take the old-fashioned approach of equating tradition with value (which may be a failing). But whatever the case, positive tradition can also provoke opposition if it's too powerful, too overwhelming, too demanding. That would basically be about the human side of wanting to hold your own.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Powerful, May

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Trying, Together

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• IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Feelings, Cinema

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• An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general and abstract, near the top of the ladder. It provokes our thinking, but what concrete evidence leads Updike to his conclusion ? The answer is in his second sentence : 'Consider the beer can.' To be even more specific, Updike was complaining that the invention of the pop-top ruined the aesthetic experience of drinking beer. 'Pop-top' and 'beer' are at the bottom of the ladder, 'aesthetic experience' at the top.

  John Updike

  Drinking, Beer, Thinking

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• Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Beautiful, Past, Thought Provoking

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• Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief. . . . As it prods me to explosions of disagreement, it also provokes useful thought.

  Janet Lembke

  Book, Provocative, Explosions

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• Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Lying, Thought Provoking, Infinite

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• There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  People, Thought Provoking, Low Income

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• The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, Solutions

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• The most serious disorders may be provoked by the injection of living organisms into the blood, into a medium not intended for them, may provoke redoubtable manifestations of the gravest morbid phenomena.

  Antoine Bechamp

  May, Serious, Morbid

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• Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thought Provoking

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• Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, Waiting, Listening

  "Is 'Patient Capitalism' The Answer To Poverty?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 18, 2013.

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• After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, Being Real, Atrocities

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• The time for change is now.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, Time For A Change

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• I think they (Thatcher protesters) ought to be grateful for the fact that the people who hold our (pro-Thatcher) views, and who are not mindless bigots, won't allow their behaviour to provoke us into words or behaviour which would could be seen as a breach of the peace. Hopefully, those of us who admire Margaret Thatcher are too well-mannered to fall for the bait.

  Norman Tebbit

  Grateful, Fall, Thinking

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• I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Thought Provoking, Needs, Interest

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• Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives. They may hurt, give us pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Hurt, Pain, Years

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• I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether as escapism or relief. I think that is very valid.

  Tim Walker

  Thinking, Reality, People

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• Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.

  Dan Poynter

  Thought Provoking, Advice, Marketing

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• Obviously the extremists want to provoke sectarian warfare, and I am struck by the fact that over a three-year period, leaders of the (Iraqi) communities have been quite resistant to this. The test is whether the political process continues.

  Peter Rodman

  Years, Community, Leader

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• What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, Trying, Cost

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• How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave — while provoking others to try to make their mark? A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?

  Wayne LaPierre

  Wall, Media, Wings

  National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012

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• The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Smart, Opportunity, Giving

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• I love simple food. I like to serve the entire animal, not only because it somehow provokes a customer to think about it, but also because to honor of the animal that has been killed for us to eat, you have to eat the whole thing. It would be silly to just eat the chops and throw everything else away.

  Mario Batali

  Food, Silly, Animal

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