Thrive Quotes - Page 25

• I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

  Rachel Weisz

  People, Envy, Compliment

  "Girl behaving sensibly" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2001.

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• What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.

  James Wolcott

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• Freedom is from within.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Freedom, 4th Of July

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Truth, Lying, Deceiving Others

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

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• The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.

  Frank Herbert

  Strong, Moving, Greatness

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.116, Penguin

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• We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Crazy, Personality, Insanity

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• But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here.

  Haruki Murakami

  Imagination, Mind, Want

  "Kafka On The Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, books.google.ru. October 10, 2011.

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• A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.

  Frank Herbert

  Sleep, New Experiences, Needs

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• Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.

  Caroline Knapp

  Black And White, Culture, Narrative

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• What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

  Frank Herbert

  Hate, Princess, Hatred

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.204, Penguin

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• Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

  Frank Herbert

  Thinking, World, May

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.42, Penguin

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• The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Trust, People

  "The Plowboy Interview: Frank Herbert". "Mother Earth News", No. 69, May/ June 1981.

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• If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Thinking, Government

  Frank Herbert (2017). “The Dosadi Experiment and The Eyes of Heisenberg: Two Classic Works of Science Fiction”, p.107, Tor Science Fiction

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• Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

  Frank Herbert

  Freedom, Discipline, History

  Frank Herbert (1985). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans the tools necessary to pursue the American dream. And then, we must get out of the way.

  Brad Henry

  Dream, Opportunity, Oklahoma

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• Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

  Vaclav Havel

  Life, Struggle, Hero

  Open letter to Dr. Gustáv Husák, Communist President, April 08, 1975.

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• I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell them they must play by the same rules as everyone else.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Hard Work, Play, Ideas

  "The Pakistan election has given me hope that one day the country can once again become my home" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2008.

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• He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Reading, Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Good Morning, Have A Good Day

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• A human being is a deciding being.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Choices, Humans

  "Man's Search for Meaning". Book by Viktor E. Frankl, www.cnn.com. 1946.

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• There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

  Frank Herbert

  Pay, Violence, Ancestor

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.133, Penguin

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• To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

  Frank Herbert

  Demise, Mortality, Ends

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.141, Penguin

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• Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

  Victor Hugo

  Education, School, Common Sense

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• Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

  Charles Kingsley

  Thanksgiving, Self, Excellence

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Town and Country Sermons: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.162, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Men, African American

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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