Acceptance Quotes - Page 33

• I think in our lifetime, that level of acceptance of "well, we couldn't do any better," won't be tolerated. We're going to start to see individual therapies customized for individual patients, and it's going to change the way people get healthcare.

  Dean Kamen

  Thinking, People, Levels

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. June 9, 2009.

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• The qualities and capacities that are important in running-such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and the acceptance of pain-have a radiating power that subtly influences one's life.

  Jim Fixx

  Running, Pain, Effort

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• Acceptance means commitment, among other things.

  Ian Hacking

  Mean, Commitment

  Ian Hacking (1983). “Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• People who aren't addicts want to know why I became one. They ask whether I had a midlife crisis. I'm only speaking for myself now, but I've stopped asking why and how. It's all about surrender and acceptance. It doesn't matter why I am an addict.

  Kevin Sessums

  Asking Why, People, Midlife

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too offensive or something. For people to read them and say, Ha-ha-ha, very funny. No, we can't print that.

  Terry Southern

  Writing, People, Kind

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• But if you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up. But no matter how much money you make or how famous you become, you will still feel empty. What you are really searching for is unconditional love, unqualified acceptance. And that was the one thing that was denied to you at birth.

  Michael Jackson

  Memories, Unconditional Love, Unqualified

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• What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional.

  Maria Popova

  Tolerance, Unconditional, Needed

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• A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now, will bring it quickly.

  Lester Levenson

  Want, Conviction

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• We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions.

  Joe Peterson

  Fate, Predictions, Worthy

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• Honesty comes only with sound health, physically and psychologically, and an honest mind cannot be separated from the most genuine acknowledgment of expression. It should be recognized that pure perfection is unobtainable. Therefore, the realization that one's irrevocable faults and deficiencies must be faced guides us toward the first step of learning. We must each accept any situation as it actually is, with dignity. In that fine balance of acceptance of self and the mission to better oneself, compassion, humility, and discipline are nurtured.

  Midori Goto

  Honesty, Humility, Compassion

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• Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection

  Nir Eyal

  Pain, Rejection, Pleasure

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.41, Penguin

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• Without fail, every cartoonist that I asked advice from bent over backward to be helpful and encouraging. It took many forms: some of it was just an implicit acceptance, like being invited along to the dinner with all of the good cartoonists, or sitting down at a drafting table with an artist and him showing me how to draw backgrounds and perspectives.

  Adrian Tomine

  Artist, Perspective, Advice

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization.

  Alice Schwarzer

  German Language, Mastery, Legal System

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The more tremendous the divinity is represented, the more tame and submissive do men become his ministers: And the more unaccountable the measures of acceptance required by him, the more necessary does it become to abandon our natural reason, and yield to their ghostly guidance and direction.

  David Hume

  Men, Yield, Doe

  David Hume (1957). “The Natural History of Religion”, p.73, Stanford University Press

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• Acceptance is the key to everything.

  Michael J. Fox

  Keys

  "What I've Learned: Michael J. Fox" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2007.

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• Happiness is dealing with setbacks with more grace, understanding and acceptance

  Arianna Huffington

  Grace, Understanding, Setback

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• No child is taught to kill, but he has to be taught to love, respect, honor and value, not only his own life, but the lives of his classmates, parents and teachers. He has to experience love and acceptance. He has to know his life has purpose and meaning. No amount of money can do that.

  Cal Thomas

  Teacher, Children, Parent

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• Love is unconditional acceptance. That quality is also our essential nature, who we really are.

  Peter Shepherd

  Love Is, Quality, Essentials

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• Music was not always my fan. Sometimes there were lean years, years where I was uncertain if I was doing the right or wrong thing. And years where there wasn't the acceptance, years of economic hardships, and failures. That's when you get to know either who you are, what you're made of, or what's inside of you. If you don't probe deeper, you'll never know, and you can't go on.

  Gino Vannelli

  Years, Goes On, Fans

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• There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are preparing themselves for the eventual acceptance of what they themselves know they don't want.

  E. B. White

  Want, Bugs, Preparing

  Harper's Magazine (October 1938); later quoted in Scott Elledge "E.B. White: A Biography" (Chapter X: Mr Tilley's Departure, p. 209), 1984.

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• Most of the international acceptance of jazz education can be traced to the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, and the wonderful program they inaugurated.

  Dave Brubeck

  Texas, Jazz, Wonderful

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• What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

  Antonio Gramsci

  Intellectual, Limits, Term

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• I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

  Jason Mraz

  Mirrors, Who I Am, Deception

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• The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to "the sweetness of belonging," is acceptance - acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.

  Tara Brach

  Path, Judgment, Trance

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• The very acceptance of the limited means of the human condition makes for endless creativity.

  Mark Vernon

  Creativity, Mean, Endless

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