Temporary Quotes - Page 27

• Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever. Google just has to 'be,' and everyone will end up there sooner or later.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Choices, Forever, Google

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• Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Simple, Men, Wings

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• People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  War, Years, People

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• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Wisdom, Party

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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• With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  Doris May Lessing (1992). “African laughter: four visits to Zimbabwe”

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• Black does not signify the darkness related to death or nothingness, but a darkness that combines everything and holds the possibility of creation, a temporary death that embraces rebirth.

  Hyon Gyon

  Darkness, Black, Rebirth

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Differences, Knowing, Bed

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Colleges are a unique space in our culture. They're a temporary constellation of humans, like a workplace. And the rules about sexual assault and harassment in a workplace are narrow rules. They're stricter than what's considered criminal on a city street. By this logic, the same rules should exist at universities too.

  Vanessa Grigoriadis

  Unique, College, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.

  John Lydon

  Important, Changed, Supposed To Be

  "This is my Britain. Our Britain. Not some German tourist's" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2002.

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• Coolness is temporary. You can't capture it or create it, it has to be discovered. It has to do with the people that are in a place, not with monuments or institutions. It's a momentary conjunction of personalities.

  Lawrence Wright

  People, Personality, Institutions

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• There's a clarity that comes with great ideas: You can [easily and simply] explain why something's a great business, how and why it's cheap, why it's cheap for temporary reasons and how, on a normal basis, it should be trading at a much higher level. You're never sitting there on the 40th page of your spreadsheet, as Buffett would say, agonizing over whether you should buy or not.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Ideas, Sitting, Levels

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• Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity.

  David A. Bednar

  Adversity, Suffering, Needs

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• Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Self, Temporary Defeat

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• If we adopt a self-centered approach to life, by which we attempt to use others for our own self interest, we might be able to gain temporary benefits, but in the long run we will not succeed in achieving even our personal happiness, and hope for the next life is out of the question.

  Dalai Lama

  Running, Self, Long

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• For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of the civilization that we - you and I - shall build.

  John Cheever

  Civilization, Might, Ruins

  John Cheever (1961). “Some Peoples, Places, and Things that Will Not Appear in My Next Novel”, New York : Harper

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• No matter what you're going through, there is no temporary feeling or circumstance that can take away the core of who you are.

  Wendy Starland

  Feelings, Matter, Circumstances

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• A lot of opportunities in life tend to last a short while, due to some temporary inefficiency... For each of us, really good investment opportunities aren't going to come along too often and won't last too long, so you've got to be ready to act and have a prepared mind.

  Charlie Munger

  Opportunity, Long, Mind

  Charlie Munger's investment advice at the 2003 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 7, 2003.

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• It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of punishment, is counterproducti ve. 'Doing to' strategies - as opposed to those that might be described as 'working with' - can never achieve any result beyond temporary compliance, and it does so at a disturbing cost.

  Alfie Kohn

  Punishment, People, Age

  "Humiliating Children In Public: A New Parenting Trend?" by Lisa Belkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2012.

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• We have a largely materialistic lifestyle characterized by a materialistic culture. However, this only provides us with temporary, sensory satisfaction, whereas long-term satisfaction is based not on the senses but on the mind. That’s where real tranquility is to be found. And peace of mind turns out to be a significant factor in our physical health too.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Long, Mind

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• Fear is the tool of a man-made devil. Self-confident faith in one's self is both the man-made weapon which defeats this devil and the man-made tool which builds a triumphant life. And it is more than that. It is a link to the irresistible forces of the universe which stand behind a man who does not believe in failure and defeat as being anything but temporary experiences.

  Napoleon Hill

  Believe, Men, Self

  Napoleon Hill (1983). “Grow rich!--: with peace of mind”, Fawcett Books

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• For just a few dollars registration, you got temporary possession of a good piece of land. Live on it for five years, build a house, and farm it, and it was yours. What a brilliant economic stimulus!

  Charles R. Morris

  Years, Land, House

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• Happiness is temporary and fleeting. ... Joy is the right goal.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Goal, Joy, Fleeting

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• The number of CEOs voluntarily leaving their jobs or being forced out spiked early. Many of those companies will be turning to an interim CEO to take the reins. These temporary leaders are increasingly in demand, according to those who watch corner office trends.

  Steve Inskeep

  Jobs, Numbers, Office

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• It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always in mind the immediate and temporary effects of particular changes, whereas I put these effects quite aside, and fix my whole attention on the long-term effects that will result from them.

  David Ricardo

  Differences, Long, Mind

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• I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge and transform it, a possibility that only art gives us.

  Olivo Barbieri

  Art, Giving, Judging

  "Scenari urbani". Interview with Daniele Lisi, www.landscapestories.net.

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