Recommendations Quotes - Page 5

• I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Food, Wine, Doctors

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• My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It’s Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has thousands of the smartest people in the world, spending billions of dollars to find the good stuff. All you have to do is write the good stuff; you don't need to trick it. Let Google do its job and you do your job.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Letting Go, Jobs, Writing

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• More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something, even if it's just a bookshelf. Make a stab in the dark. Read off the beaten path. Your attention is precious. Be careful of other people trying to direct how you dispense it. Confront your own values. Decide what it is you are looking for an then look for it. Perform connoisseurship. We all need to create our own vocabulary of appreciation, or we are trapped by the vocabulary of others.

  Phyllis Rose

  Appreciation, Dark, Vocabulary

  Phyllis Rose (2014). “The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading”, p.215, Macmillan

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• Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

  Garrett Hardin

  Impact, Political, Environmental

  Garrett James Hardin (1982). “Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker”, Course Technology Ptr

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• It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

  Colin Powell

  Outcomes, Congress, Position

  "Colin Powell: I Have ‘No Problem With’ Gay Marriage" by Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2012.

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• What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.'

  James Wolcott

  New York, Autumn, Editors

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• I think we have to reflect on a treaty change that would permit more than surveillance,
  with recommendations and appropriate sanctions. When recommendations are not followed and sanctions prove ineffective, European institutions should have the capacity to impose the necessary decisions on a particular country.

  Jean-Claude Trichet

  Country, Thinking, Should Have

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• His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mistress, Village, Witch

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.19, Random House

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• Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Nihilism, Quality

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.326, Vintage

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• I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

  Sigmund Freud

  Use, Firsts, Serious

  Sigmund Freud, Sander L. Gilman (1995). “Psychological writings and letters”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Love Is, Men, Self

  Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The progress of a biographer”

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• Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Done, Information, Gestapo

  Look magazine, June 14, 1956.

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• Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.

  Jim Ramstad

  Gratitude, Important, Debt

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• I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate.

  Emma Bonino

  Responsibility, Support, Groups

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• My overall recommendation: for decades corporate policy manuals and HR departments have told people they are responsible for their own careers. It's about time people really heeded those warnings.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Careers, People, Warning

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry."

  Daniel Kahneman

  Bed, Angry, Ifs

  Source: time.com

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• She [Sarah Palin] doesn`t quite understand the issue [post-traumatic stress disorder] and, you know, if she`s going to continue to be in this space, hopefully she can do some homework and make some policy recommendation that are relevant to fixing the problem.

  Jon Soltz

  Stress, Issues, Space

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If I'm collaborating with an artist I like to give them my point of view and if they don't want to take any of my recommendations it's fine, but it's hard otherwise.

  Emmanuel Lubezki

  Artist, Views, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.

  Paul Farmer

  Believe, Boston, People

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• I'm conscious of competitive issues, but at the same time the recommendation they make is that we protect citizens by not adding to the overall tax burden of the province.

  Christy Clark

  Issues, Citizens, Conscious

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Very quickly the lawyers in the Justice Department pulled together a set of recommendations about how we ought to defend the law as a constitutional matter. And it was the lawyers in the Justice Department who thought that it was important to include the tax power argument as part of it.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Law, Justice, Important

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• When I wrote "Win," it only took about eight months, but eight months of sheer pain and suffering because every phrase that's in there - and there are about 130 specific linguistic recommendations - I had to test every one to make sure that it worked.

  Frank Luntz

  Pain, Winning, Eight

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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• There are people who will be wanting to apply "Win" to their own, personal life. If you remember only one thing, and I'm going to do it right here, right now because I just happened to come to it, that phrase - if you remember only one thing - there are 125 specific language recommendations in "Win" that can make a difference in your day-to-day lives.

  Frank Luntz

  Winning, Differences, People

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". Interview with Neal Conan, www-s4.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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• Then, as she turned to walk away, Fred dropped the guillotine."So we're making Ev CEO," he said, his fork clenched in his hand. "You're going to get a passive chairman role and a silent board seat. We have some paperwork for you and a recommendation for a lawyer."Jack felt like he had just been hit in the face with a baseball bat. "Say that again," he stuttered to Fred, thinking he had heard incorrectly.Fred repeated himself almost verbatim: We're making Ev CEO. You're getting a passive chairman role. You will have a silent board seat. Here's the paperwork. Call a lawyer.

  Nick Bilton

  Baseball, Thinking, Hands

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• I will also ask my secretary of defense and joint chiefs to present recommendations for strengthening and augmenting our cyber command. As a deterrent against attacks on our critical resources, the United States must possess, and has to, the unquestioned capacity to launch crippling cyber counterattacks. And I mean crippling. Crippling.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Counter Attack, United States

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2016.

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