Allowing Quotes - Page 29

• George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

  Marlon Brando

  Thinking, Wrath, Hatred

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• A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a form that deals with a certain kind of meaning that has to do with putting things in relation to each other, allowing for the fact of complexity reversal, such things. Sermons are, at their best, excursions into difficulty that are addressed to people who come there in order to hear that.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Yield, Order, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.

  Ian McLeod

  People, Over You, Comedy

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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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• Exercise and good nutrition helped make me what I am today and are critical in allowing me stay on top of my game.

  Chris Paul

  Exercise, Games, Today

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• Instead of allowing ourselves to be led and trapped by our feelings, we should let them disappear as soon as they form, like letters drawn on water with a finger.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Water, Feelings, Letters

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• The cosmos is evolving toward greater self-reflection, allowing us to open the eye of Spirit and see our source.

  Alex Grey

  Eye, Reflection, Self

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• Alternative models are neither right nor wrong, just more or less useful in allowing us to operate in the world and discover more and better options for solving problems.

  Andrew Weil

  Alternatives, World, Problem

  Andrew Weil (2004). “The Natural Mind: A Revolutionary Approach to the Drug Problem”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become holy warriors, too; if we kill the innocent as they do; strike first at those who had not struck us; allow our leaders to use the fear of terrorism to make us afraid of the truth; cease to think and reason together, allowing others to tell what's in God's mind.

  Bill Moyers

  Warrior, Winning, Thinking

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• Sometimes to move forward you have to let go. I figured that out through opening myself up, allowing people into my creative process. It allowed me to write songs that surprised me, and in fact, inspired me.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Letting Go, Song, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The people did not elect me. I speak with one voice that may echo other people, but I am part of a group of people. That's not distancing yourself from a community, that's also allowing the space for others to speak for themselves.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Echoes, Voice, Space

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. June 2010.

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• When we're feeling fully alive, we're able to fully feel love. This doorway also relates to feeling our feelings fully. Not suppressing our feelings of anger, sadness or grief but allowing them to be felt. What's amazing is that when those feelings are felt, they actually dissolve into love.

  Marci Shimoff

  Grief, Sadness, Feelings

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.

  Angel Olsen

  Want, Unreal, Interfere

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Whoever will be president, if they wish to save America from the Wrath of God and the course that America is on, which will bring about America's destruction, they must consider justice for the Black and the Red and the Brown. If they do not consider that by separating the Black man and woman and allowing us to go free to build a nation of our own, this and this alone will turn away the wrath of God, will lessen the storms, and lessen the increased Judgment of God using the forces of nature.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Men, America, Wrath

  "Farrakhan: 'I never endorsed Mr. Trump or any of the candidates'". Interview with Richard Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. March 8, 2016.

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• One of the problems of not allowing the American people to read what bin Laden has said is that in October 2001 just after the war began in Afghanistan, he gave a speech that had two parts to it.

  Michael Scheuer

  War, Two, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People don't put as much of an emphasis in expanding their choices, so that, you know, one of the things that I learned when I was in Japan way back in the 1990's and there were all these quarrels happening between the U.S. and Japan about allowing more American products into the Japanese market.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Japan, People, Choices

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I try to emulate his approach of really get the most out of people by allowing them to experiment and certainly allowing people to make mistakes.

  Brian Henson

  Mistake, People, Trying

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Do I believe the execution will work out? Les Moonves said yes to Survivor based partly upon my show Eco-Challenge. He liked my way of filming outdoors. It was the first use of helicopters on a documentary with the gyro-stabilized lenses. And a certain beauty of filming, allowing the drops to fall from a leaf into a puddle, allowing a spider to weave a web. Taking the breath to allow that to happen rather than showing scene after scene.

  Scott Raab

  Believe, Fall, Work Out

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• So if we can't express it or repress it, what do we do when we feel angry? The answer is to recognize the anger, but choose to respond to the situation differently. Easier said than done, right? Can you actually imagine trying to strong-arm your anger into another, more amicable feeling? It would never work. Determination alone won't work. It takes a new intelligence to understand and manage our emotions. By getting your head and heart in coherence and allowing the heart's intelligence to work for you, you can have a realistic chance of transforming your anger in a healthy way.

  Doc Childre

  Strong, Determination, Anger

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• By closely supervising our infants, by allowing them to do what they are capable of, by restraining ourselves from rescuing them too often, by waiting and waiting and waiting, by giving minimal help when they really need it, we allow our infants to learn and grow at their own time and in their own way. I believe that, no matter how much and how fast the world changes, a well-grounded, competent, and confident person is best equipped to adapt to it. This is our goal.

  Magda Gerber

  Believe, Giving, Goal

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• There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse.

  Desmond Tutu

  Fall, Justice, Accountability

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• I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.

  Howard Hughes

  Mistake, Hands, Perfect

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• Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. But to allow you to trust not only yourself but trust others means - is what's required to be vulnerable, and to have that kind of trust takes courage.

  Herbie Hancock

  Wall, Mean, People

  "Jazz icon Herbie Hancock". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 29, 2011.

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• Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express.

  Kathy Acker

  Writing, Expression, Machines

  Source: bombmagazine.org

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• Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians refusal to give up power. Allowing them to seize another 16 percent of the economy won't solve our problems. Freedom will.

  John Stossel

  Giving Up, People, Medical

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