Thrive Quotes - Page 33

• Whenever we make changes in our surroundings, we can too easily shortchange ourselves, by cutting ourselves off from some of the sights and sounds, the shapes or textures, or other information from a place that have helped mold our understanding and are now necessary for us to thrive. Overdevelopment and urban sprawl can damage our own lives as much as they damage our cities and countryside.

  Tony Hiss

  Cutting, Journey, Sight

  Tony Hiss (2010). “The Experience of Place: A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities and Count ryside”, p.12, Vintage

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• There is much that women can bring into politics that would make our world a kinder, gentler place for humanity to thrive in.

  Corazon Aquino

  Our World, Humanity, Kinder

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• How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need curing, and the world didn't, either; the only thing that did need curing was my understanding of my place in it. Without that understanding - without a sense of belonging to the real world - it was impossible to thrive in an imagined one.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Real, Order, Understanding

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.94, Macmillan

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• I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Winning, Nba

  Phil Jackson (2005). “The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul”, Penguin Group USA

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• Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Self Esteem, Passion, People

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• Blest is that government where no art thrives.

  Thomas Nashe

  Art, Government

  Thomas Nashe (2006). “The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works”, p.209, Penguin UK

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• People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way... you can make a point without being personal. Don't insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less

  Bill Walsh

  People, Coaching, Criticism

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• Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves. They will control the climate and the Solar System just as they control the Earth. They will travel beyond the limits of our planetary system; they will reach other Suns, and use their fresh energy instead of the energy of their dying luminary.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Ocean, Men, Years

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• The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

  Bruce D. Perry

  Love, Relationship, Change

  "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog". Book by Bruce D. Perry, 2006.

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• How many examples do we have of these bodies [of the state] set up to eliminate a problem, actually eliminating it, shutting down their operations and going home?

  Greg Sams

  Home, Shutting Down, Body

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• A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Ignorance, Perspective

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds" edited by Henry Southgate, 1862.

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• In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

  Noam Chomsky

  Freedom, Hero, Democracies Have

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• The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Hate, People

  "Let's stay chummy, Chomsky" by Pat Kane, www.independent.co.uk. June 22, 1997.

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• There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

  Noam Chomsky

  Political, Propaganda, Profit

  "'The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System'". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• We are a way of the universe knowing itself.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowing, Way, Universe

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• Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sleep, Ideas, Psychology

  Syntactic Structures ch. 2 (1957)

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• Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

  Gautama Buddha

  Judging, People, Assumption

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• The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.

  Brian Eno

  Computer, Problem, Enough

  "Gossip is Philosophy". Interview with Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. May 1, 1995.

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• Anarchy doesn't mean out of control; it means out of their control.

  Jim Dodge

  Mean, Anarchy

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• There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

  Aristotle

  Would Be, Imagine, Slave

  Aristotle (1963). “The Politics of Aristotle”

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• Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

  Alvin Toffler

  Sovereign, Fiction, Shock

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• Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

  Aldous Huxley

  Looks, Innocence, Improbable

  "Island".

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• If we are not free, no one will respect us.

  Abdul Kalam

  Respect, Ifs

  "A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: The Visionary of India" by G. Katyal and K. Bhushan, (p. 39), 2002.

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• In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

  Albert Camus

  Order, Solitude, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.157, Vintage

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• After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

  Albert Camus

  Teacher, Retirement, Book

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