Relative Quotes - Page 29

• From the point of view of emptiness, there is neither being nor non-being, but we're not on the point of view of emptiness, we're on the point of view of our relative being.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Views, Emptiness, Point Of View

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• Our relative being is what rules our relative world.

  Tenzin Palmo

  World

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• Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem [Abdul Jabbar ], these individuals supported us, but yet still, when you sit back and say the coverage that was done relative to their support was very shallow.

  John Carlos

  Support, Done, Bills

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• On a relative level where we live, we need to have a sense of identity, otherwise we'd fall apart, wouldn't we?

  Tenzin Palmo

  Fall, Identity, Needs

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• A lot of people expend great time and effort explaining why they don't like me, but none of them ever try to explain why their opinion should matter to me. I think most of them sense, but would never be brave enough to admit, their subordinate role in the food chain relative to me.

  Jim Goad

  Thinking, People, Effort

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I also believe that most of the emerging economies have a fairly large amount of foreign exchange reserves, relative to 10 years ago.

  Jamie Dimon

  Believe, Years, Economy

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• All parents want to send their children to the best possible schools. But because a good school is a relative concept, a family cannot achieve its goal unless it outbids similar families for a house in a neighborhood served by such a school. Failure to do so often means having to send your kids to a school with metal detectors at the front entrance and students who score in the 20th percentile in reading and math. Most families will do everything possible to avoid having to send their kids to a school like that. But because of the logic of musical chairs, they're inevitably frustrated.

  Robert H. Frank

  Children, Reading, School

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.

  John Medina

  Distance, Nuclear Families, Behavior

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In the reason that the contrast between the absolute and the relative is so terrible is because we believe so fully in ourselves as permanent, continuous, and central. I feel insane saying this, but if one weren't so deluded about the permanent reality of the self, a lot of this pain would actually lessen.

  George Saunders

  Pain, Believe, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The other thing that's useful for me is this notion of the absolute versus the relative:if we walk out and it's a beautiful morning, it's only a beautiful morning because we don't have a broken leg or hemorrhoids or something.

  George Saunders

  Beautiful, Morning, Broken

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In a certain way, we're always toggling back and forth between the absolute and the relative, if that makes sense.

  George Saunders

  Way, Back And Forth, Certain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A good school is a relative concept, and the better schools are located in more expensive neighborhoods. But when everyone bids more for a house in a better school district, they succeed only in bidding up the prices of those houses. As before, 50 percent of all children will attend schools in the bottom half of the school quality distribution. As in the familiar stadium metaphor, all stand, hoping to get a better view, only to discover that no one sees better than if all had remained seated.

  Robert H. Frank

  Children, School, Views

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Even those of us who are very very aware are still so unaware. Everything's relative so that, the more you know, the more you know you don't know anything.

  George Harrison

  Stills, Knows

  Source: www.fifthestate.org

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• In one way, I'm never going to get out of this material world unless it's by His grace but then again, His grace is relative to the amount of desire I can manifest in myself.

  George Harrison

  Grace, Desire, World

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• Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices. Often, kids don't appreciate the choices available, as if it's either the street or nothing. I want them to understand that reality is what's relative to you, and that you can make choices that allow you to create a new reality for yourself.

  Keke Palmer

  Growing Up, Educational, Kids

  Source: themississippilink.com

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• There is a connection between environment and stress on both ends, with excessive clutter and excessive attention to detail both holding the power to distract us from our ability to love fully, work productively and relax effectively. So, what makes sense to me is for each of us to think this through on a few fronts: what constitutes a comfortable environment for us, how much effort we're willing to put into it relative to other priorities, and how well-matched we need our partners' preferences to be to ours.

  Carolyn Hax

  Stress, Thinking, Priorities

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I remember my parents yelling at each other and at me from an early age, and I remember a lot of things smashing. I try to look for the happy memories from the brief time my parents were married, and I can't really recall that. From the start things were messed up, and I just kept moving through the years and trying to pick out the little bits of evidence that would help me prove to myself that it wasn't my doing. But it took finding out somebody really does love me, who's not my parents or a relative, to really know that I was loveable.

  Jason Diamond

  Memories, Moving, Yelling

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.

  Ansel Adams

  Artist, World, Comfort

  Source: www.tribalartasia.com

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• What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Trying, Shapes, Consideration

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The relative lack of power of certain minority groups and the fear they're feeling in the wake of Donald Trump's election, I think, is something we really need to take a look at, because, while I don't think Trump wants to target any particular minority group, I understand their fear, because he spent many months stoking it.

  Megyn Kelly

  Thinking, Feelings, Months

  "Megyn Kelly On Trump And The Media: 'We're In A Dangerous Phase Right Now'". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. December 7, 2016.

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• When I am told that I am a huge star, I accept it, knowing that success is relative - the films I do have to work.

  Deepika Padukone

  Stars, Knowing, Film

  Source: www.indiawest.com

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• We've been in a period of relative stability and cooperation since the end of the Cold War among the world's major powers, but that may not always exist. And certainly one could even predict that there will be periods of hostility or tension ahead.

  John Burroughs

  War, World, May

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• Questions like, "Is my suit OK?", or "Is my job performance satisfactory?", are impossible to think about in the absence of a suitable frame of reference. For an interview suit to serve its purpose, it must make you look good relative to other candidates for the job you want. For your job performance to be satisfactory, it must compare favorably with the performance of others who want the same promotion you do. As Charles Darwin saw clearly, much of life is graded on the curve, and conventional economic models completely ignore that fact.

  Robert H. Frank

  Jobs, Thinking, Economic Models

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It'd be a shame to talk about the universe and not show some images of it, because we have some of the more stunning representations of our field relative to any of the sciences. But I don't use the imagery as a substitute for the insights and wisdom I can convey so that when you leave you say to yourself, "Wow, I'm a little more deeply connected to the universe, and I want to learn more."

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Littles, Wow, Fields

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

  Matt Damon

  Growing Up, Kids, Class

  "Matt Damon: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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