Rejecting Quotes - Page 3

• For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of art from commerce as distinct semiotic practices that never interlock.

  Peter Wollen

  Photography, Art, Practice

  Peter Wollen (1982). “Readings and writings: semiotic counter-strategies”, New Left Books

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• We must seek to understand the intent of communication without prejudging or rejecting the content... Communication, after all, is not so much a matter of intellect as it is of trust and acceptance of others, of their ideas and feelings, acceptance of the fact that they're different, and that from their point of view, they are right.

  Stephen Covey

  Communication, Acceptance, Views

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• It was part of a financial situation. I could only afford records in thrift stores. Then you could find wonderful things, but now everything is a collectible. I like the recycling idea --using the stuff that people don't want anymore, and make new music out of it. There was an element of looking back and listening to your parents' records and doing something with that stuff. Sort of acknowledging the past while rejecting it at the same time.

  Christian Marclay

  Past, Ideas, People

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• Most of my problems come from rejecting parts of myself.

  Louise Hay

  Problem

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “Inner Wisdom: Meditations for the Heart and Soul”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When I saw the sun bears at the Oakland Zoo, I immediately was drawn to them. Not to be ornery, but regarding what you said about the speaker identifying with the bear: I'm not sure it's exactly right to say that the speaker feels that the bear must share his sadness, or whatever else he is feeling. That would be classic pathetic fallacy, which is certainly generative for poetry, but here the speaker appears actually to be rejecting that idea.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Zoos, Sadness, Oakland

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Nobody will be sent to hell for rejecting a gospel they've never heard.

  Robert Jeffress

  Hell, Heard

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Imagine you are trying to lose weight and attempting to concentrate on writing an article, but there is a bowl with your favorite chocolate cookies in your field of vision, a permanent immoral offer. If we are capable of rejecting such offers or to postpone them into the future, then we can also concentrate on that which we currently want to do.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Writing, Chocolate, Vision

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Some people have a fear of rejecting all the security that comes with family, church and state. They become fundamentalists.

  Harold Ramis

  People, Church, States

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• If the group has a negative social mood, believing that tomorrow will be worse than today, the bias goes in the opposite direction. Instead of "welcoming" we have "rejecting," instead of "global" we tend to see events that are "local" and so forth.

  John L. Casti

  Believe, Opposites, Groups

  "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

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• There is great potential and deep fragility [in Malaysia] that can be used by any group that stresses on religion, pushing towards Islam, rejecting people and alienating migrants - anything can be used to win the next elections. So these are the signs of fragility that is very much there.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Stress, Winning, People

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• The Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Attitude, Movement, Assuming

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Past, Come Up, Surface

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels of economic inequality, the suppression of dissent and the permanent war state.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Economic Inequality, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think the idea that you're somehow rejecting whiteness if you don't identify yourself as biracial is odd because everybody engages in whiteness. If you live in America, you're doing whiteness all the time, even if you have no white people in your family.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Thinking, America, Ideas

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

  Coco Chanel

  Boys, Long Ago, Moral

  Source: www.chanel-muggeridge.com

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• When the New Yorker turned down work, they turned it down in such an elaborately gentlemanly way making apologies for their own shortsightedness. Undoubtedly it was their fault but somehow for some reason this fell short of the remarkably high standard that you by your own work have set for yourself. They had a way of rejecting my work that made me feel sorry for them somehow.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sorry, Apology, Way

  "Humor has to surprise us, otherwise it isn't funny". Interview with George Plimpton, blankonblank.org. November 28, 1994.

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• I'd argue that people today aren't rejecting Christ so much as they're rejecting the church.

  Craig Groeschel

  People, Church, Today

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• We need some remedial training on how to live as subjects in a kingdom. We may be justified in rejecting the divine right of kings to rule but we cannot be justified if we reject the rule of our divine king.

  Joe Carter

  Kings, Divine Right, Training

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• The girls go to the gang in order to get protection from victimization that's occurring in their lives. And also it's a place to be, because they're often rejected from and rejecting their families.

  Meda Chesney-Lind

  Girl, Order, Protection

  "Girls and Gangs". Interview with Lisa Wong Macabasco, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.

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• I'm anti-establishment. So all the labels, the reason that I keep joking and rejecting this idea that I'm liberal, well partly that's because I think of myself as a radical, and by that I mean, not even in the terms of Left-Right that you might imagine - but someone who wants to go to the root of problems.

  Bill Ayers

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• Finally, a prominent nation is taking on the homosexual agenda and rejecting it outright. A number of African nations have done the same, but third-world countries are not newsworthy to mainstream media. The irony is stunning that a Communist nation would understand that preserving the value of men and women marrying and producing children makes for demographic survival, while many American Christian leaders cower in the shadows, in fear of activist homosexuals and their leftist supporters. I say 'cheers' to the Russians on this one. That nation will probably outlive America.

  Sylvia Thompson

  Christian, Country, Cheer

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• Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.

  Morgan Parker

  Block, Creating, Noise

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?

  Sydney J. Harris

  Art, Mind, Brilliant

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• Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Order, Denial, Superstitions

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• But there is a compelling reason to develop a personal strategy for living. Rejecting issues, which often feels liberating, is actually enslavement. Those who do not produce their own solutions must be using someone else's. As Nietzsche warned 'he who cannot obey himself will be commanded'.

  Michael Foley

  Issues, Compelling Reason, Strategy

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