Thrive Quotes - Page 26

• The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Passion, Soul

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• The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Friendship, Karma, Way

  SOREN KIERKEGAARD (1965). “THE LAST YEARS”

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• There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Courage, Men, Getting High

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• Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  God, Prayer, Doe

  "Is There a Yoga of the Heart?" by Roger S. Gottlieb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

  Helen Keller

  Relationship, Self Esteem, Science

  My Religion (1927) ch. 6

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• We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.

  Naveen Jain

  Children, Needs, World

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• I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Doubt, Mind

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.183, Library of Alexandria

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• I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sunset, Dark, Obscurity

  1925 Those Barren Leaves, pt.1, ch.1.

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• Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Rights, Spirit

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• The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Yoga, Men

  "Out of the Blue: Delight Comes Into Our Lives". Book by Mark Victor Hansen, Barbara Nichols, and Patty Hansen, 1996.

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• The diversity of India cannot thrive on facile attempts to create the homogeneous category of "Indian." Nor can it thrive on dubious attempts to gloss over xenophobic provincialism or a highly culpable state-sponsored marginalization of a minority community.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Diversity, Community, Dubious

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• I don't thrive in a word-perfect environment.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Perfect, Environment

  "Zooey Deschanel talks about being the new director on New Girl". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. September 20, 2016.

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• A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Successful, Skills, Focus

  "Gov. Blagojevich Announces Major Opportunity Returns Investment to Bring Leading Manufacturer and 480 Jobs to Macomb". Illinois Government Network, February 22, 2005.

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• I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Environment, Natural, Feels

  Kathryn Bigelow, Peter Keough (2013). “Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don't know if I thrive in normal life.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Normal, Knows, Ifs

  Kathryn Bigelow, Peter Keough (2013). “Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Insanity, Philosopher, Delusional

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• Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

  Honore de Balzac

  Weed, Marijuana, Degrees

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• A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Ambition, Garden, Plants Growing

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• Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

  Chet Atkins

  Music, Predictable

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• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

  Isaac Asimov

  Stars, Ignorance, Humanity

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• If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Isaac Asimov (1984). “Asimov's New guide to science”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Essence, Fiction Stories

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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• Fear is the foundation of most governments.

  John Adams

  Fear, Patriotic, Government

  'Thoughts on Government' (1776)

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• I really, really, loved being an elected official. But I also love what I'm doing now. I thrive when I can fight for people and I'm doing it now as a lawyer.

  Angela Alioto

  Fighting, People, Lawyer

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

  Noam Chomsky

  Peace, War, Office

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