Allowing Quotes - Page 26

• Governments never supply prosperity.  At best, they can facilitate it, by allowing the free enterprise system to work.  Usually they
  suppress it.

  Randy Gage

  Government, Prosperity, Enterprise

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• The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.

  Peter Greenaway

  Successful, Jumping, Games

  "Drowning By Numbers". Comedy, Drama, 1988.

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• After doing a total of five years of Daily Grace, you kind of get burned out on doing the same thing over and over again, so I am allowing myself to not have totally any specific structure.

  Grace Helbig

  Years, Grace, Kind

  "Getting personal with YouTube star Grace Helbig". Interview with Carly Lanning, www.dailydot.com. February 14, 2014.

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• We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.

  Simon Schama

  Cheating, Grieving, Promise

  Simon Schama (2004). “Hang-ups: Essays on Painting (mostly)”, BBC Books

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• There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Differences, Sometimes, Danger

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• I found cause to wonder upon what ground the English accuse Americans of corrupting the language by introducing slang words. I think I heard more and more different kinds of slang during my few weeks' stay in London than in my whole "tenderloin" life in New York. But I suppose the English feel that the language is theirs, and that they may do with it as they please without at the same time allowing that privilege to others.

  James Weldon Johnson

  New York, Thinking, May

  James Weldon Johnson (2011). “The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson”, p.163, Modern Library

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• Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging offensive ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.

  David Harsanyi

  Ideas, Political, Offensive

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• It's about being here in the moment, accepting one another and allowing creativity to flow.

  Stefon Harris

  Creativity, Flow, Moments

  "There are no mistakes on the bandstand". TED Talk, www.ted.com. November 2011.

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• An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.

  Chanakya

  Wise, Crazy, Insane

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• I know at first hand how the impact of being bullied as a teenager can quite literally last a lifetime and I thought that if we could involve well known ISPCC ambassadors perhaps people will think twice about bullying or indeed allowing bullying to happen.

  Mark Feehily

  Bullying, Teenager, Thinking

  "Jedward look battered and bruised in anti-bullying campaign". www.mirror.co.uk. August 8, 2011.

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• Mentioning God in the Pledge of Allegiance is no different in kind than allowing government salaried Chaplains for the military or for the Congress, or including the official motto, In God We Trust, on our currency.

  Orrin Hatch

  Military, Government, Scary

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• If you're not flying people around on wires, and you're only allowing them to do things that people can really do, it can't go on for very long, because eventually somebody gets the drop on the other person and then it's over.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Long, People, Flying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It started off for me as just wanting to be an actor and sort of resenting in a weird way being expected to write as well as be a comedian and an improviser. And then you think about it for a minute, and I smartened up and realized that the only way to sustain a career is to generate your own material. Or to be in control of your career as best you can. And in allowing yourself to do that it opens up a whole new world of possibilities. And then you're like "Oh, producing is a thing."

  Rob Corddry

  Writing, Thinking, Careers

  "Rob Corddry on Pain & Gain, Being from Boston, and Absurdity". Esquire Interview, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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• The Arab countries in the Middle East have for decades demonized Israel, to Western leadership, which for reasons not entirely clear, listen to them politely. The Bush Administration, for example, was infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood years before Obama began mainstreaming them and allowing them to have positions of influence within the White House.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Country, Israel, Years

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I always use the Internet. It's a great marketing tool. It's a great starting point, allowing you to show your trailer and have people all over world be able to see it. It was much harder in the old days.

  Tom Six

  People, Marketing, Able

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The more we can encourage entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, the more they have hope. That requires some reforms in these [African] governments: rooting out corruption, increased transparency and how government operates, making sure that regulations are not designed just to advantage elites, but are allowing people who have a good idea to get out there and get things done.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Ideas, People

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• A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Ideas, Opposites

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1913*). “Golden Hours with Samuel Taylor Coleridge”

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• It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours. Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.

  John Berger

  Artist, Unity, Together

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.71, Vintage

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• If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed by the adult society, perhaps we have reached the point of diminishing returns in allowing excessive autonomy and in failing to utilize the constructive potential of the peer group in developing social responsibility and consideration for others.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Responsibility, Adults

  Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books

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• Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas from other fields.

  Lawrence Shepp

  Science, Data, Ideas

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• Allowing your kids to watch TV doesn't have to mean they have no choice but to see commercials for junk food and alcohol.

  Charlie Ergen

  Mean, Kids, Television Commercials

  "Dish's Charlie Ergen Suggests AutoHop Shields Kids from Junk Food Ads" by Eriq Gardner, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 27, 2012.

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• If, two people have good minds and they're looking at problems, if they agree all the time it means one of them is not thinking. If they disagree all the time, it means one of them is not thinking. They're just allowing their political position to dictate their position on an issue. And I think that's unhealthy. And the public knows better.

  William J. Clinton

  Mean, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The only sexism involved in the Miers nomination is the administration's claim that once they decided they wanted a woman, Miers was the best they could do. Let me just say, if the top male lawyer in the country is John Roberts and the top female lawyer is Harriet Miers, we may as well stop allowing girls to go to law school.

  Ann Coulter

  Girl, Country, School

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• If we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we find the very same problem waiting for us when we arrive. It just keeps returning with new names, forms, manifestations until we learn whatever it has to teach us about where we are separating ourselves from reality, how we are pulling back instead of opening up, closing down instead of allowing ourselves to experience fully whatever we encounter, without hesitating or retreating into ourselves.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Reality, Names

  "When Things Fall Apart". Book by Pema Chödrön, December 24, 1996.

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• True listening is never self-effacement. We bring the whole self to the process, rather than denying self. When we truly listen, we aren't just waiting for someone else to decide something so we can get on with things, or so we don't have to decide for ourselves. We aren't giving away our own powers to be seen and heard. When we listen, first we listen to the parts of ourselves that are curious, in avoidance, afraid, angry, or proud. Then we can take a breath and sink, allowing those parts some space alongside the spaciousness of not knowing.

  T. Thorn Coyle

  Self, Knowing, Space

  T. Thorn Coyle (2013). “Make Magic of Your Life: Passion, Purpose, and the Power of Desire”, p.34, Weiser Books

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