Resistance Quotes - Page 14

• We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.

  Vandana Shiva

  Diversity, Celebration

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• Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

  Mark Twain

  Anxiety, Mastery, Panic

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• The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Charm, Obvious, Evidence

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• Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Teaching, Math, Thinking

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• Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

  Eric Hoffer

  Character, World, Way

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• All models experience resistance during their modeling careers; the point is just to remain yourself and make meaningful and genuine decisions.

  Maria Borges

  Meaningful, Careers, Decision

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Industries are fearful of legislation. But if you start in the marketplace and forge a solution, you get a lot less resistance - and often a more flexible approach.

  Cary Sherman

  Legislation, Approach, Fearful

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• In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Strong, Events, Accepting

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

  George Washington

  Choices, Brave, Enemy

  1776 General orders, 2 Jul. Quoted in J C Fitzpatrick (ed) Writings of George Washington (1932), vol.5.

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• The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.

  William Safire

  Heart, Ideas, World

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• Playing with various approaches may be due to resistance to going within, to the fear of having to abandon the illusion of being something or somebody in particular.Of all the affections the love of oneself comes first. Light and love are impersonal.When you do not think yourself to be this or that, all conflict ceases. Any attempt to do something about your problems is bound to fail, for what is caused by desire can be undone only in freedom from desire. You cannot be rid of problems without abandoning illusions.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Thinking, Light, Desire

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• One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self.

  Rosellen Brown

  Men, Self, Insanity

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• Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.

  Adyashanti

  Needs, Helping, Misery

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• The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ideas, Analysis, Conscious

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id.

  Sigmund Freud

  Cutting, Ego, Communicate

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The unconscious - that is to say, the 'repressed' - offers no resistance whatever to the efforts of the treatment. Indeed, it itself has no other endeavour than to break through the pressure weighing down on it and force its way either to consciousness or to a discharge through some real action.

  Sigmund Freud

  Real, Break Through, Effort

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ego, Doubt, Principles

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set.

  Steven Pressfield

  Self, Mind, Negative

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• To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

  Noam Chomsky

  Decision, Important, Technique

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky (2010). “American Power and the New Mandarins”, p.493, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

  Patrick Henry

  Lying, Mean, Hands

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Reality, Passive Resistance

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• I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what happens.

  Ani DiFranco

  Baby, Ideas, Energy

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• Faith is the path of least resistance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Path, Path Of Least Resistance

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• Procrastination is another form of resistance

  Louise Hay

  Procrastination, Form

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Nov 29, 2011

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• You need a little resistance-something to fight against.

  Jack White

  Fighting, Needs, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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