Thrive Quotes - Page 36

• A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

  E. Digby Baltzell

  Men, Answers, Asking

  E. Digby Baltzell (2018). “Judgment and Sensibility: Religion and Stratification”, p.191, Routledge

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• He who learns death unlearns slavery.

  Cornel West

  Slavery, Unlearn

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• When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

  Frank Herbert

  Law, Littles, Individual

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization.

  Charles Siebert

  Civilization, Arguing, Argument

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• The use of 'conspiracy theory' as a derogatory - as an epithet almost - is something the propagandists have perfected over the decades, and it's a useful tool for eliminating articulate dissent and other points of view, and information that might be inconvenient for a policy agenda.

  Chris Sanders

  Views, Use, Agendas

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• The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

  Cornel West

  People, Lasts, Chaos

  Cornel West (1999). “The Cornel West Reader”, p.272, Basic Books

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• Every aquarium will eventually leak.

  Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

  Aquariums, Leaks

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• Potential is an excuse to procrastinate; Ambition is a means to thrive.

  Donovan King

  Procrastination, Ambition, Mean

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• Ask yourself this: How much deprivation, how much self-effacement must you suffer through before you act on your desire for meaning and fulfillment? Before it’s your turn to thrive in your life, instead of barely surviving it? Some people live their dreams. Why not you?

  Jillian Michaels

  Dream, Self, People

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• The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.

  Robert Menzies

  Leadership, Effort, Democracy

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• At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

  Jenny Holzer

  Mindless, Inactivity

  Jenny Holzer (1983). “Truisms and essays”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• A visionary thrives under all conditions.

  Esther Hicks

  Vision, Visionaries, Conditions

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• Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.

  Pat Metheny

  Music, Way, Jazz

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• I have thrust myself into this maze,
  Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, May, Mazes

  William Shakespeare, Brian Morris (1981). “The Taming of the Shrew: Second Series”, p.187, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
  All are on their rounds tonight;
  In the wan moon's silver ray,
  Thrives their helter-skelter play.

  Joel Benton

  Halloween, Moon, Play

  Joel Benton, “Halloween”

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• What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

  Eugene Gendlin

  Integrity, People, Going Away

  "Focusing". Book by Eugene Gendlin, 1978.

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• Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.

  Jim Babka

  Government, Liberty, Expansion

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• ... store of bees, in a dry and warme bee-house, comely made of fir boards, to sing, and sit, and feede upon your flowers and sprouts, make a pleasant noyse and sight. For cleanly and innocent bees, of all other things, love and become, and thrive in your orchard. If they thrive (as they must needs if your gardiner be skilfull, and love them: for they love their friends and hate none
  but their enemies) they will besides the pleasure, yeeld great profit, to pay him his wages; yea the increase of twenty stock of stools with other bees, will keep your orchard.

  William Lawson

  Love, Hate, Flower

  William Lawson, Simon Harward (1927). “A new orchard & garden: or, The best way for planting, graffing, and to make any ground good for a rich orchard: particularly in the north, and generally for the whole commonwealth, as in nature, reason, situation, and all probability, may and doth appear. With the country house-wifes garden for herbs of common use. Their virtues, seasons, ornaments, variety of knots, models for trees, and plots, for the best ordering of grounds and walks. As also the husbandry of bees, with their several uses and annoyances: all being the experience of forty eight years labour”

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• I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is.

  Joni Mitchell

  Crazy, Keys, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Government, Afterlife

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• How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Wall, Men, Wind

  "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.

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• A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of the men in the pinstripes, also known as the Boys on the Street. When the Boys are in a good mood, the market thrives; when they get scared or sullen, it is time for each one of us to look into the retail apple business.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Boys, Men, Apples

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• I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

  William Wordsworth

  Spring, Power, Men

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1907). “Letters of the Wordsworth family from 1787 to 1855”

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• In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Ideas, Satisfaction

  "Bill Gates lambasts D.C. dysfunction" by Jessica Meyers, www.politico.com. March 13, 2013.

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• I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

  Harry Shearer

  Inspiration, People, Desperation

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