Abandon Quotes - Page 36

• Every great thing starts with an idea, followed by a doubt and finally a resolve to abandon or pursue. Victory is a treacherous journey.

  Dane Cook

  Journey, Ideas, Victory

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2014

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• When activists say we need to move past the partisan divide, what they mean is: Shut up and get with my program. Have you ever heard anyone say, "We need to get past all of this partisan squabbling and name-calling. That's why I'm going to abandon all my objections and agree with you"?

  Jonah Goldberg

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

  George Santayana

  Should Have, Illusion, Irrational

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.136, MIT Press

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• heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise person puts himself last, and thereby finds himself first, holds himself outside, and thereby remains at the center, abandons himself, and is thereby fulfilled.

  Laozi

  Wise, Heaven, Earth

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• When Chuck House wanted to develop the oscilloscope for HP, David Packard told him to abandon the project. Chuck went on "vacation" and came back with $2 million in orders. Packard later gave him an award inscribed with an accolade for "extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering."

  Bob Sutton

  Vacation, Awards, Engineering

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• If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may, after suitable tests, be promoted, but if he shows any regrettable solidarity with his previous associates, the rulers will reluctantly conclude that there is nothing to be done with him except to send him to the lethal chamber before his ill-disciplined intelligence has had time to spread revolt. This will be a painful duty to the rulers, but I think they will not shrink from performing it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Done, May

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• Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

  Henry Rollins

  Pride, Trying, Might

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• Mozart's mental grip never loosens; he never abandons himself to any one sense; even at his most ecstatic moments his mind is vigorous, alert, and on the wing. He dives unerringly on to his finest ideas like a bird of prey, and once an idea is seized he soars off again with an undiminished power.

  Walter J. Turner

  Ideas, Wings, Bird

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• If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Giving Up, Leader, Ego

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• One reason there are so many short-lived management fads is that their prescriptions were derived and advocated in precisely this way. So managers read about a fad and try it, find that it doesn't work, abandon the effort, and move on to the next thing. In reality, it is usually the case that the faddish prescription was indeed sound advice in certain circumstances, but actually was poor advice in other circumstances.

  Clayton Christensen

  Moving, Reality, Effort

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• People that support Donald Trump are gonna circle the wagons around Trump even more so after this. This isn't gonna cause Catholics or other Christians to say, "Oh, my God, the pope, oh, no, pope says Trump's not a Christian. I gotta abandon Trump." No. It isn't gonna happen that way, I don't believe.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Christian, Believe, Circles

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Mistake, Doe, Fields

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• Shambhala is a tradition where there were rulers, kings, and powerful people who actually were very benevolent and kind. They got things done, and they didn't abandon their tradition.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Kings, Powerful, People

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• I would support whoever the people have chosen. We have to abandon the thinking that there is a bunch of politically elite people who know what is best, let the people determine for themselves who is best.

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, People, Support

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

  Dan Bejar

  Ideas, Musician, Singers

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

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• I agree with a lot of the points in Taleb's book, but I don't agree with many of his conclusions. It seems to me that he rightly points out that risk managers miss a lot of the risks, but the conclusion is that he draws, is that we should abandon risk management, whereas my conclusion is we should improve it.

  Robert F. Engle

  Book, Missing, Risk

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Abandon all hopes of utopia - there are people involved.

  Clayton Cramer

  People, Utopia, Involved

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• Mean-spirited mediocrities, especially those with a smattering of learning, are the most likely to be opinionated. Only strong minds know how to correct their opinions and abandon a bad position.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Strong, Mean, Learning

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• But we don't have a right to force anyone to abandon their faith. It is one of the foundational commitments of who we are as Americans to respect diversity.

  Ted Cruz

  Commitment, Diversity, Who We Are

  "Ellen Page and Ian Daniel on Creating Gaycation, the State of LGBT Rights in Other Countries, and Watching a Son Come Out to His Mother" by John Horn, www.vulture.com. March 25, 2016.

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• There may be some who wish that he would have taken the occasion to first comment on the Brexit vote, but they're not going to abandon him. They're not gonna let the media do it. Romney people? The media could separate his supporters from him, but they can't from Trump. They don't understand this yet. They think one of these times when they do a trick like this it's gonna work and they're gonna be able to really harm [Donald] Trump.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Taken, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [Boris]Johnson, [Nigel] Farage, they are retro-nationalists, not patriots. Patriots don't abandon ship when the going gets tough. They stay on board.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Boards, Ships, Tough

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• I'm driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people.

  Debbie Allen

  Mean, Passion, Tired

  "Legendary Dance Icon Debbie Allen and Vivian Nixon, Her Daughter". Interview to Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Children, Would Be, Wonderful

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We do not abandon ship. I say, as corny as it may sound, through the strength and spirit and fire and dare and gamble of a few men in a few ways we can save the carcass of humanity from drowning. No light goes out until it goes out. Let's fight as men, not rats. Period. No further addition.

  Charles Bukowski

  Fighting, Men, Fire

  Source: bukowski.net

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• It would be a huge mistake to abandon democracy promotion. Peaceful political change has been enormously successful in the past years in Eastern European countries as well as in countries like South Korea, South Africa, Chile and Indonesia. However, if possible, the use of force is something to avoid except in cases where genocide is threatened, like Bosnia or Libya or with regimes that threaten our security, like the Taliban and Saddam Hussein.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Country, Mistake, Successful

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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