Sake Quotes - Page 40

• It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Action, Motive, Ulterior Motive

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Lying, Goal, Pursued

  "A Study of History". Book by Arnold J. Toynbee, 1934-1961.

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• Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

  Criss Jami

  Rebel

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.64, Criss Jami

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• What did turtles evolve from? Really, I want to know. And for God’s sake, don’t say lizards, because turtles are nothing like lizards. They could not be more different.

  Gwen Stefani

  Turtles, Want, Different

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• When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.

  Michel Gondry

  Thinking, Actors, Want

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• Owning a business is NOT about working your ass off for the sake of trying to squeeze out a living.  It is NOT about making tons of money at the expense of losing tons of life.  It IS about maximizing life, bettering your life and the lives of others, which, not so ironically, fattens your purse.

  Mike Michalowicz

  Trying, Maximizing, Purses

  Mike Michalowicz (2008). “The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The Tell-it-like-it-is Guide to Cleaning Up in Business, Even If You are at the End of Your Roll”, p.7, Toilet Paper Entrepreneur

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• I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths. But certainly not eliminating the natural yearnings of our species or the asking of these great questions.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Progress, Would Be

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• Terrorism is a big danger to Pakistan's independence. We will fight this danger for the sake of independence of Pakistan and will defeat it at all levels.

  Shaukat Aziz

  Fighting, Independence, Pakistan

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• A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg,.. is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

  Hans Haacke

  Art, People, Example

  "Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere". Book by Hans Haacke, 1998.

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• Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.

  Charlie Brooker

  Skills, Oxford, People

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• Gay brothers and sisters... You must come out. Come out to your relatives... come out to your friends... Come out to your neighbors... to your fellow workers... to the people who work where you eat and shop... break down the myths, destroy the lies and distortions. For your sake. For their sake. For the sake of the youngsters who are becoming scared.

  Harvey Milk

  Brother, Lying, Gay

  "That's What America Is". Harvey Milk's speech given on Gay Freedom Day in San Francisco, June 25, 1978.

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• We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy.' If something was horribly offensive and shocking we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Family Guy, Offensive, Shock

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. September 12, 2003.

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• Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down.

  David Giuntoli

  Fame

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.

  Anna Ford

  Jobs, Children, Sacrifice

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• Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.

  Novalis

  Self, Unions, Separation

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.25, SUNY Press

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• Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Heaven, Suffering

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• All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Perfection, Flying

  William Butler Yeats (1957). “The variorum edition of the poems of W. B. Yeats”

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• Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Art, Yawning, Stories

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• Know that what appears to be Love for an 'other' is really Love of Self because 'other' doesn't exist. So this innermost Love can be given to no 'other'. Love of friends is for the sake of Self, not for body to body. True love has no Lover or Beloved because all Love is Love of Self.

  H. W. L. Poonja

  Spiritual, Love Is, Self

  H. W. L. Poonja, Prashanti De Jager (2000). “The Truth Is”, p.471, Weiser Books

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• I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  Philosophical, Ignorance, Vanity

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• In the Now, there really is no destination. Each moment is lived for its own sake, even as you move toward whatever you many choose to pursue. When you are focused on some outcome or achievement-or are looking forward to the day when you are able to live in conditions that you imagine will be superior to whatever currently exists-your life right now becomes just an interval on the way to the next event.

  Richard Moss

  Moving, Achievement, Events

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• Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Blessed, Islamic

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• Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the way to its true end, terminates in a value which does not exist, and thus frustrates all its deepest capacities for happiness and peace.

  Thomas Merton

  Doe, Way, Ends

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• I'm not going to work for the sake of working. I'll work, if I'm extraordinarily lucky enough to continue having the same opportunities, but it will be based on whatever is there. If there's nothing around, then I'll go home and make carrot cake for awhile.

  Carey Mulligan

  Home, Opportunity, Cake

  Source: collider.com

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• With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Feelings, Comforting

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.307, Penguin

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