Thrive Quotes - Page 29

• Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Art, Majority Rule

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

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• I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Challenging The Status Quo, Want

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• We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Attitude, Character

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• It's very rare that you have a liberal run as an unabashed liberal. They have to lie about it. They have to mask who they are. And in order for them to survive and thrive, they have to keep that up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Lying, Order

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• Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Ravens, Smell

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• On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Meaningful, Perseverance, Truth

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• People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Believe, Rights

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• Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Enemy, Truth Is, Commerce

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4093, Library of Alexandria

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• The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up a code of "No worries, mate," while peddling their oddities to visitors: nonconformity is at once a fact of life for many, and a selling point.

  Pico Iyer

  Oddities, Worry, World

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• Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

  George Orwell

  Witty, Peace, Truth

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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• I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.

  Pat McAfee

  Soccer, Football, Player

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Thinking, Want, Actresses

  "Love Among the Artists". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1900.

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• There are two kinds of filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the film is complete in the director's mind) and Coppola's (which thrives on process). For Hitchcock, any variation from the complete internal idea is seen as a defect. The perfection already exists. Coppola's approach is to harvest the random elements that the process throws up, things that were not in his mind when he began.

  Walter Murch

  Ideas, Two, Perfection

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• If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business - you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

  Barack Obama

  Successful, Bridges, Lines

  Barack Obama's Remarks at a Campaign Event in Roanoke, Virginia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 13, 2012.

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• When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Time, Pockets, Hundred

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

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• He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Humility, Wish, Existentialism

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Strong, Quality

  "Mixed Opinions and Maxims" by Friedrich Nietzsche, aphorism 370, "The Danger in Admiration", 1879.

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• Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Understanding, Gone, World

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• I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Thinking, Pace, Actors

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• If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness

  Kathleen Winsor

  Wickedness, Wells, Ifs

  Kathleen Winsor (2000). “Forever Amber”, p.471, Chicago Review Press

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• For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation - and yet out of a bottomless vitality our people continue to thrive and develop.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Kings, Home

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.104, Beacon Press

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• Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

  Amartya Sen

  Ignorance, Half, Way

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• An organization's strategy is simply its plan for success. It's nothing more than the collection of intentional decisions a company makes to give itself the best chance to thrive and differentiate from competitors.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Organization, Giving, Decision

  "The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business". Book by Patrick Lencioni, 2012.

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• It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose canvas is our lives.

  Sue Halpern

  Soul, Solitude, Essentials

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• Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle; and when they Grow above me and thrive on my body's element they will Breathe the fragrance of my heart into space.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Space, Myrtle

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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