Settling Quotes - Page 28

• No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Novelists, Littles

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “The Most Beautiful Woman in Town”, p.28, City Lights Publishers

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• We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?

  Jessica Zafra

  Self Esteem, What If, Patterns

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• Don't settle for less than is possible.

  Tom Peters

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• You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

  Seth Godin

  Night, Good Enough, Status Quo

  Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.11, Penguin

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• Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

  Jon Krakauer

  Travel, Moving, New Horizons

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.58, Pan Macmillan

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• But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

  Karl Shapiro

  Smile, Sleep, Breathing

  Karl Jay Shapiro, Stanley Kunitz, David Ignatow (1998). “The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late”, p.18, University of Illinois Press

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• Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.

  Laozi

  Block, Dust, Giving

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• Your woman knows your weaknesses better than anybody. She knows where you will falter and give up. She knows the degree of mediocrity you will settle for. And, she knows your true capacity as a full man, a man of free consciousness and love. Her gift, if she is a good woman, is to test you with her darkest moods, over and over and over, until your consciousness is unperturbed by feminine challenge, and you are able to pervade her with your love, just as you are here to pervade the world. In response to your fearless consciousness, she will drench your world in love and light.

  David Deida

  Giving Up, Men, Light

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.237, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Building a portfolio around index funds isn’t really settling for the average. It’s just refusing to believe in magic.

  Bethany McLean

  Believe, Average, Magic

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• Dubai will never settle for anything less than first place.

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

  Dubai, Never Settle, Firsts

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• God dealt with our whole situation on the cross; there is nothing left for you to settle. Just say to Him, 'Lord, I cannot forgive and I will no longer try to do it; but I trust that You in me will do it. I can't forgive and love; but I trust that You will forgive and love in my place and that You will do these things in me.'

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Forgiving, Trying, And Love

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• I know enough about the moon to know how unpleasant and inhospitable it is. . . . I know enough about Mars to know that you can't live there, you can't settle it. Mars and the moon are two ugly islands. So then, you say, what's the point of going to them? The point is to be able to say I've been there, I've set foot on them, and I can go further to look for beautiful islands.

  Wally Schirra

  Beautiful, Moon, Islands

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• Luck is not the hand of God.... Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dust, Hands, Wind

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• Sleep is really important. You need to rest the physiology to be able to work weel and meditate well. When I don't get enough sleep, my meditations are duller. You may even dip into sleep at the beginning of your meditation, because you're settling down. But if you're well rested, you'll have a clearer deeper experience.

  David Lynch

  Sleep, Meditation, Important

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• Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do.

  Scott Adams

  Truth, Reality, Perception

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• Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

  Teresa of Avila

  Spiritual, Solitude

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• For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the education for? Clearly, to fit the people for social life - to make them good citizens. And who is to say what are good citizens? The government: there is no other judge. And who is to say how these good citizens may be made? The government: there is no other judge. Hence the proposition is convertible into this - a government ought to mold children into good citizens, using its own discretion in settling what a good citizen is and how the child may be molded into one.

  Herbert Spencer

  Children, Government, People

  "Social Statics: Great Essays".

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• To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the damming happens without good reason . . . then it's a tragedy of diminishment for the whole planet, a loss of one more wild thing, leaving Earth just a little flatter and tamer and simpler and uglier than before.

  David Quammen

  Loss, Rivers, Water

  David Quammen (2012). “Wild Thoughts from Wild Places”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.

  William Lilly

  Years, Majesty, Quiet

  William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.150

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• I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.

  Richard Russo

  Writing, Self, Views

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• The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Wise, Motivation

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• I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.

  Drew Barrymore

  Makeup, Thinking, Swear To God

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• The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy. Most of you say, 'When I get that I will be joyful.' And we say, until you are joyful, you will not get that. You must start with the decision-with the determination-with the insistence that, 'I will not settle for less than feeling good.'

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Determination, Feel Good

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• Most often the person you would die for would settle for dinner and a movie.

  Robert Breault

  Dinner, Persons, Dies

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• I told him about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way they flatter you by wanting to know every last thing about you, only it isn't a compliment, it is just efficient, a person getting more quickly to the end of you. Correction - dogs do want to know every last thing about you. They take in the smell of you, they know from the next room, asleep, when a mood settles over you. The difference is there's not an end to it.

  Amy Hempel

  Dog, Smell, Differences

  Amy Hempel (2010). “The Dog of the Marriage: Stories”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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