Subtle Quotes - Page 24

• Leaders with empathy do more than sympathize with people around them: they use their knowledge to improve their companies in subtle, but important ways.

  Daniel Goleman

  People, Empathy, Leader

  Daniel Goleman (2017). “What Makes a Leader? (Harvard Business Review Classics)”, p.23, Harvard Business Press

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• Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

  Laozi

  Time, Law, Listening

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• The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that there is no technique, no program, just a sharp mind in touch with the situation.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Real, Lying, Challenges

  Henry Mintzberg (2003). “The Strategy Process: Concepts, Contexts, Cases”, p.148, Pearson Education

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• While other guitars may have more twang or an esoteric atmosphere, the Les Paul is like a T-Rex thampling everything in it's path .. it can be subtle if you want it to be, but it works best if you have an 'armadillo in your trousers' and you want to articulate that

  Miles Zuniga

  Music, Guitar, Atmosphere

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• From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

  Tammy Bruce

  Media, Culture, Extremes

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.235, Crown Forum

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• When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses […]. ‘The more solitary and isolated I become, the more I come to like stories,’ he said.

  Michel de Certeau

  Dancer, Stories, Said

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• The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Challenges, Harder

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• Much has been said about the meanings we make of illness, but what about the meanings we make out of cure? Cure is complex, disorienting, a revisioning of the self, either subtle or stark. Cure is the new, strange planet, pressing in. The doctor could not have known. And that made me, as it does every patient, only more alone.

  Lauren Slater

  Doctors, Self, Doe

  Lauren Slater (2011). “Prozac Diary”, p.13, Random House

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• Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by Tom Thomson and his colleagues. The concept of this painting grew out of a number of forays into Algonquin over the years. From its conception I intended Algonquin to be a subtle tribute to Tom Thomson. But I also wanted it to be a response to the natural beauty that so typifies the grandeur of Ontario’s first provincial park.

  Ken Danby

  Strong, Growing Up, Numbers

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• Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Writing, Technology, Style

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• It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.

  Evan Davis

  Gay, Thinking, Views

  "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview With Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

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• We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.

  Alain de Botton

  Letting Go, Struggle, Secular Society

  "Katie Antoniou interviews Alain de Botton on his new book 'Religion for Atheists'". Interview with Katie Antoniou, www.run-riot.com. January 24, 2012.

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• Consciousness will always be present, though a particular
  consciousness may cease. For example, the particular tactile
  consciousness that is present within this human body will cease when
  the body comes to an end. Likewise, consciousnesses that are
  influenced by ignorance, by anger or by attachment, these too will
  cease. But the basic, ultimate, innermost subtle consciousness will
  always remain. It has no beginning, and it will have not end.

  Dalai Lama

  Ignorance, Attachment, Body

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• Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience - intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Profound, Innovation

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• It is expected that there will be discrepancies between models and observations. However, why these arise and what one should conclude from them are interesting and more subtle than most people realize. Indeed, such discrepancies are the classic way we learn something new.

  Gavin Schmidt

  Discrepancies Between, People, Interesting

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• Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time

  Amit Abraham

  Procrastination, Corruption, Valuable

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• On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.

  Linus Torvalds

  Internet

  "Linus Torvalds' Best Quotes from LinuxCon Europe 2014". Interview with Dirk Hohndel, www.linuxfoundation.org. October 15, 2014.

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• Mary, you make me wanna eat you
  Every time I see you, it's like the first time I meet you
  Fragrance like a flower, subtle and sweet too
  Seductive and whatever, it might as well be see through.

  Daniel Dumile

  Weed, Sweet, Rap

  Song: My Favorite Ladies

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• Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Love, Self, Form

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• Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements and denials and vague distrusts and complicated disillusions. Then Melanctha would be sudden and impulsive and unbounded in some faith, and then she would suffer and be strong in her repression. Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble.

  Gertrude Stein

  Strong, Leaving, Suffering

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• No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.

  Beatrix Farrand

  Inspiration, Life Is, Wells

  Beatrix Farrand, Carmen Messinger Pearson (2009). “The Collected Writings of Beatrix Farrand: American Landscape Gardener (1872-1959)”, p.128, UPNE

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• Bail out the bankers and bankrupt the school teachers - we will still teachI will never follow the lead of those who exclude the kids who need education the most so that my precious scores will rise. I will never line up with those whose idea of reform is the subtle segregation of the poor and desperate. I want no part of the American caste system.

  John Kuhn

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• Look, and it can't be seen.
  Listen, and it can't be heard.
  Reach, and it can't be grasped.
  
  Above, it isn't bright.
  Below, it isn't dark.
  Seamless, unnamable,
  it returns to the realm of nothing.
  Form that includes all forms,
  image without an image,
  subtle, beyond all conception.
  
  Approach it and there is no beginning;
  follow it and there is no end.
  You can't know it, but you can be it,
  at ease in your own life.
  Just realize where you come from:
  this is the essence of wisdom.

  Laozi

  Life, Dark, Essence

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• This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.

  Immanuel Kant

  School, Men, Hands

  Immanuel Kant (1855). “Critique of pure reason, tr. by J.M.D. Meiklejohn”, p.37

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• Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of kindness toward everybody and everything. Never did he give the impression of domineering, always of serving and helping. He was extremely conscientious, without allowing anything to assume undue importance; a subtle humor guarded him, which was reflected in his eyes and in his smile.

  Albert Einstein

  Kindness, Eye, People

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.76, Broadway Books

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