Accepted Quotes - Page 22

• Take the cards out of your wallet. A debit card is accepted just about everywhere that credit cards are, and you'll be spending money you have - always a good thing.

  Jean Chatzky

  Cards, Credit, Good Things

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.

  Le Corbusier

  Determination, Towns, Planning

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• My girlfriend says that I thrash throughout the night, for longer periods than are generally accepted as corresponding to REM sleep, and she often has to move to the couch to get any sort of rest before she goes to work in the morning.

  Keith Murray

  Girlfriend, Morning, Moving

  "Keith Murray of We Are Scientists: Examining Life with Humor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Generations, Wanted, Electronic Music

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've been playing videogames since before my career in this business, but what happened is several videogame companies were recruiting students back then and I applied with barely any hope of getting accepted to any of the companies. However, I got accepted! Although my path was already set to become a piano instructor, I chose the path of videogames instead. My parents cried, my friends were worried and my teacher was stunned (we're talking about way back when game music wasn't as popular as it is these days).

  Yoko Shimomura

  Teacher, Talking, Games

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• We each have two human needs: To learn and grow & to be respected, accepted and loved the way you are. Even though feedback facilitates learning and growth, it conflicts with our need to feel respected. This is a key reason we resist feedback.

  Sheila Heen

  Two, Keys, Growth

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• As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted as gentlemen, it will be impossible to think of the South as civilized...The educated folk of the Old South took theology lightly, and religion to them was hardly more than a charming ritual, useful on solemn occassions.

  H. L. Mencken

  College, Thinking, Ymca

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• I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I'd spent being only partly alive, and how easily I'd accepted a lesser life.

  Nicole Krauss

  Vitality, Would Be, Alive

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• There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values that brook no compromise, and I would count among them integrity, fairness, and the avoidance of cruelty. But I have never accepted the argument that principle is compromised by judging each situation on its own merits, with due appreciation of the idiosyncrasy of human motivation and fallibility.

  Sonia

  Appreciation, Motivation, Integrity

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• Compare mathematics and the political sciences - it's quite striking. In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But in order to speak about social reality, you must have the proper credentials, particularly if you depart from the accepted framework of thinking. Generally speaking, it seems fair to say that the richer the intellectual substance of a field, the less there is a concern for credentials, and the greater is the concern for content.

  Noam Chomsky

  Reality, Thinking, Order

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

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• I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church.

  Margaret George

  Philosophy, Men, Worry

  Margaret George (2012). “Elizabeth I”, p.318, Pan Macmillan

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• I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe.
  I disproved one of the then widely accepted “laws” of physics, 'the conversation of parity', by proving that identical nuclear particles do not always act alike.

  Chien-Shiung Wu

  Senior, Views, Law

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• Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Reality, Poetry

  Germaine Greer (1995). “Slip-shod sibyls: recognition, rejection and the woman poet”, Viking Pr

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• What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.

  Louis L'Amour

  Today, Tomorrow, Amusing

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• My relationship with George Steinbrenner was great. He was the boss, and I accepted that.

  Joe Torre

  Boss

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• If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Games, Play

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Texts & pretexts: an anthology with commentaries”

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• Great love -- the kind that illumines and transforms us -- always includes a keen awareness of limitation as well. Though love may inspire us to expand and develop in new ways, we can never be all things to the one we love, or someone other than who we are. Yet once accepted, limitation also helps us develop essential qualities, such as patience, determination, compassion, and humor. When love comes down to earth -- bringing to light those dark corners we would prefer to ignore, encompassing all the different parts of who we are -- it gains depth and power.

  John Welwood

  Determination, Dark, Compassion

  John Welwood (1991). “JOURNEY HEART PB”, Harper Perennial

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• Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stress, Our World, Suffering

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

  Oscar Wilde

  Drunk, Poetry, Personality

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• Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but after all, it was but a caravansary which supplied refreshment to the traveler, and directed him farther on his way to Isphahan or Bagdat. Thank God, no Hindoo tyranny prevailed at the framing of the world, but we are freemen of the universe, and not sentenced to any caste.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Book, Soul

  Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau ....”

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• There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Impact, Asteroids, Policy

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• (Not) even the US can impose peace: it has to be genuinely accepted by both parties involved.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Party, Involved

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• Breaking accepted rules does bring people together.

  Theodore Zeldin

  People, Together, Doe

  "Foibles..." by Sandra Deeble, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2001.

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• Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead paint, rats and rat poisons, or a rural world where families do not enjoy the minimal levels of public health accepted as standard for nearly a century. Whether in city or country, this is a world where cavities go unfilled and ear infections threatening permanent deafness go untreated. It is world where even a small child learns to be ashamed of the way he or she lives.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Country, Children, Dangerous World

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• God’s love is free. He asks for nothing in return; all he wants is for his love to be accepted.

  Pope Francis

  Love Is, Want, His Love

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