Susceptible Quotes - Page 2

• Indie rock is just as susceptible - if not more susceptible - to all the gross things about people becoming total ass clowns in music, and only worrying about money and image. I'm not interested in being a part of that.

  Justin Vernon

  Rocks, Indie Rock, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Sloth, Sin, Pastor

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• You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and feelings that lie within you.

  Bob Proctor

  Trust, Lying, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Mar 20, 2017

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• After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper and humanize the affections, it is certain, that nothing hardens the heart like excessive and unbounded luxury; and he who refuses the fewest gratifications to his own voluptuousness, will generally be found the least susceptible of tenderness for the wants of others.

  Hannah More

  Heart, Luxury, Temptation

  Hannah More (1818). “Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great, to General Society: An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World. Remarks on the Speech of M. Dupont. And Tracts Written During the Riots of 1817”, p.9

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• Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Kind, Construction, Substitutes

  Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November 2004.

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• The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.

  Swami Brahmananda

  Learning, Mind, Suggestions

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• Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support, you describe your life in negative terms you will find that this will reinforce your mind's negative emotions and make you unhappy and even more susceptible to feeling unhappy in the future. By simply doing the reverse and focusing on why you are lucky and grateful things are not worse, you will strengthen and increase your mind's positive emotions and make yourself happy and even more likely to feel happy in the future.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Gratitude, Grateful, Support You

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• I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.

  Ray Davies

  Wall, Flower, Sometimes

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• It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sight, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1839). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.86

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• If the human body is balanced in ph and nutrients it is not susceptible to disease.

  Royal Rife

  Healthy, Balance, Body

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• Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more. Like icy adolescents, such poetry is more interested in commiserating than acknowledging that feelings — the sentiments that make us susceptible to sentimentality — actually exist.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Lonely, Smart, Emotional

  "Wipe That Smirk Off Your Poem". www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed to believe in whatever their medical schools teach them and the leading doctors tell them. Over the past 20 years the drug companies, with their enormous wealth, have taken medicine over and now control its research, what is taught and the information released to the public.

  Abram Hoffer

  Believe, Taken, School

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• I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

  Oscar Wilde

  Luck, Influence, Weak

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• Most people spend their lives building financial houses of straws, which are susceptible to wind, fire, rain and big bad wolves.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Rain, Fire, Wind

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• Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there are beings to gratify that love. If we thirst for life and love eternal, it is likely that there are an eternal life and an eternal love to satisfy that craving.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Life And Love, Attachment, Eternal Love

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”

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• In many inner cities, there are issues of less economic stability, poorer education, community centers being stripped away, arts being removed from the school system leaving many children imbalanced, isolated from their most powerful self... the independent thinker, the creator, the dreamer often leaving children more susceptible to other harmful things out of boredom or feelings of rejection.

  Mya

  Art, Children, Powerful

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

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• Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and at that same point it is susceptible to new changes and adaptations. So, you know, if you remember from when you were, you know, in second grade and there was Christmas and you got a present from your grandfather and your mom was wearing a red dress, that may or may not all have happened.

  Pete Docter

  Mom, Memories, Grandfather

  "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 3, 2015.

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• User habits are a competitive advantage. Products that change customer routines are less susceptible to attacks from other companies.

  Nir Eyal

  Habit, Advantage, Company

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.17, Penguin

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• There are a lot of signs. One of the things that makes me most nervous is the disappearance of the frogs. They're going downhill all over the planet. Frogs are susceptible to all kinds of problems, because they require water to breed and their skin is very porous. Their condition is nerve racking.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Water, Skins, Nerves

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial.

  Alexander Herzen

  Religious, Simple, Political

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• I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Religious, Church, Force

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• Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete; the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged; men would walk more safely by day; every pillow would be more inviolate by night; property, life, and character held by a stronger tenure; all rational hopes respecting the future brightened.

  Horace Mann

  School, Character, Night

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”, p.15

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• I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom.

  Geoff Dyer

  Obvious Things, Boredom, Life Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Yes, it seems we've got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake over and over again. It's really uncanny how we build these beautiful multicultural edifices and then allow this switch to be flipped and everybody goes, 'Oh, the other, get them out of here.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Beautiful, Mistake, Personality

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• Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

  Alvin Adams

  Different, Littles, Humanitarian

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