Zero Quotes - Page 28

• There's something about Saint Francis's approach to life, zero expectations but pleasant surprise. In a lot of ways he was a really conflicted person. Some people would say he's masochistic . I don't really know, but I've always loved his reverence and his mindfulness.

  Denison Witmer

  People, Expectations, Saint

  Source: sojo.net

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• Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise.

  Sharon Gannon

  Inspiration, Humility, Knowing

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• Some people have got a mental horizon of radius zero and call it their point of view.

  David Hilbert

  Views, People, Horizon

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• Do I believe in the concept of Zero Harm? Let's just say I believe that nothing is impossible

  Dave Collins

  Believe, Safety, Impossible

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• All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Nuclear, Use, Weapons

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.132, I.B.Tauris

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• This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it. . . .

  Italo Calvino

  Moving, Mean, Swim

  Italo Calvino (2010). “If On A Winter's Night A Traveller”, p.15, Random House

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• I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up.

  Glenn Beck

  Integrity, Thinking, People

  "Glenn Beck on 'Restoring Honor' Rally, America's future and His Critics". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2010.

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• Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.

  Alex Steffen

  Mean, Balance, Carbon

  "Alex Steffen on Carbon-Zero Cities". Interview with Theresa Riley, billmoyers.com. March 19, 2013.

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• In Japanese society, the competitiveness is within a traditional respecting framework. The Japanese will not compete if that competition involves violence or if it is a zero sum gain - if you win, someone has to lose.

  Shinobu Yaguchi

  Winning, Competition, Gains

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I have done political things, I couldn't care less about politics. I have zero interest in politics, really. They don't allure me. I have no interest in them, because if I could believe the law could change people's behavior then I would become a politician. But only Christ can change the heart.

  Rick Warren

  Believe, Heart, Law

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper - TRANSCRIPT". Interview with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Abstraction

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.42, Univ of California Press

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• My name has zero value.

  Colin Quinn

  Names, Values

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• I think there is nothing wrong with instituting policies that say that harassment of any form, whether it comes through the Internet or whether it happens to you face to face, is unacceptable; that we've got zero tolerance when it comes to sexual harassment, we have zero tolerance when it comes to harassing people because of their sexual orientation, because of their race, because of their ethnicity.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Race, Ethnicity

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars.

  Nick Nolte

  Struggle, Years, Hustle

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• If you fall in love based on zero hours spent with me? That's maybe something to be aware of. That will fade fast. You can't be in love with a google search.

  Taylor Swift

  Falling In Love, Google, Hours

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• The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Incentives, Crime

  "Justice Department's New Get-Tough Policy Is, Well, Not" by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. February 20, 2013.

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• The [IBJJF] medal has zero value. It means as much as this tablecloth right here, but people still kill themselves to try to get those medals.

  Ryron Gracie

  Mean, People, Trying

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• When the banks create the money, they don't create the interest. They send you into the world to compete with everybody else to get the second $100,000 that never was created and bring it back to them. So if we're in a world with zero-growth population, goods, services, and money, the problem would be obvious.

  Bernard Lietaer

  Growth, Population, Would Be

  Interview with Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, www.greenamerica.org. 2009.

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• And for those of you who want to start any trouble, I have a zero tolerance policy. . . .

  Simone Elkeles

  Tolerance, Want, Trouble

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• Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.

  Louis Sachar

  Way, Worried, Said

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• In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

  Louis Sachar

  Thinking, Way, Helping

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.119, Yearling

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• Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world - wrote reams of commentary [after 9/11]. Their articles were all about Islam saving Aristotle and the zero, which medieval Muslim scholars had done more than eight hundred years ago; about Islam being a religion of peace and tolerance, not the slightest bit violent. These were fairy tales, nothing to do with the real world I knew.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Real, Stupid, Islamic

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• There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the ability to play non-zero-sum games was another watershed.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Couple, Thinking, Games

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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• I have talked about the deterioration of the atmosphere between Washington and Moscow. It was quite clear that in the year 1980, which at the same time was an election year in America, these negotiations would not go very far, but immediately after the start of the Reagan administration we in Bonn started to try influencing them on the medium-range nuclear weapons negotiations, and we told them that in our view the best outcome would be zero-zero, zero on either side.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Views, Years, America

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• I pretty much read reviews and comments only looking for the negative. Literally, when I read positive comments, it's like a zero. I think the issue is if you agree with it or not.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Thinking, Issues, Negative

  Source: www.avclub.com

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