Arena Quotes - Page 7

• From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.

  Elizabeth Fishel

  Sisterhood, Personality, Firsts

  Elizabeth Fishel (1985). “Sisters: Love and Rivalry Inside the Family and Beyond”, William Morrow & Company

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environment, and appropriate contraception for everyone (and by their own example), doctors should help bring family size into the arena of environmental ethics, analogous to avoiding patio heaters and high carbon cars.

  John Guillebaud

  Doctors, People, Car

  "Limit families to two children 'to combat climate change'". www.telegraph.co.uk. July 24, 2008.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

  Simon Callow

  Space, Imagination, Theatre

  52 Copy quote

• We was sneakin' in and it was general admission,
  Now we ownin' the arena and decidin' who allowed in it.

  Curren$y

  Rap, Hip Hop, Admission

  15 Copy quote

• Ex-D-boy, used to park my Beamer
  Now look at me, I can park in my own arena

  Jay-Z

  Boys, Hip Hop, Parks

  7 Copy quote

• Whether philosophically you believe in a public subsidization of an arena or a stadium, that's the reality. We can't have professional basketball in this community by the end of our lease in 2010 without subsidization.

  Wally Walker

  Basketball, Believe, Reality

  4 Copy quote

• The term pre-embryo is useful in the political arena - where decisions are made about whether to allow early embryo (now called pre-embryo) experimentation - as well as in the confines of a doctor's office, where it can be used to allay moral concerns that might be expressed by IVF patients. 'Don't worry,' a doctor might say, 'it's only pre-embryos that we're manipulating or freezing. They won't turn into real human embryos until after we've put them back into your body.'

  Lee M. Silver

  Real, Ivf, Doctors

  10 Copy quote

• The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody.

  Saul Alinsky

  Real, Mean, Men

  8 Copy quote

• Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that morality derived from religion should not be permitted to shape our laws. Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression. Secularists want to empty the public square of religion and religious-based morality so they can monopolize the shared space of society with their own views. In the process they have made religious believers into second-class citizens.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Religious, Mean, Space

  Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great about Christianity”, Tyndale House Pub

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come from your insecurity in working with others. It can be the need to draw attention to yourself in the public arena. It can be a feeling that others are a threat to your own territory. These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts.

  Bill Walsh

  Real, Team, Organization

  36 Copy quote

• If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been done already. Many many very intelligent people have applied themselves to crafting an agenda that people could grab ahold of. But the problem of course is that libertarianism isn't political. It is kind of anti-political. It wants to take a lot of things out of the political arena.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Intelligent, Thinking, People

  11 Copy quote

• Some people use NVC to respond compassionately to themselves, some to create greater depth in their personal relationships, and still others to build effective relationships at work or in the political arena. Worldwide, NVC is used to mediate disputes and conflicts at all levels.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, People, Political

  9 Copy quote

• When we spend our lives waiting until we're perfect or bulletproof before we walk into the arena, we ultimately sacrifice relationships and opportunities that may not be recoverable, we squander our precious time, and we turn our backs on our gifts, those unique contributions that only we can make.

  Brené Brown

  Sacrifice, Unique, Opportunity

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.11, Penguin

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If we’re always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, they’ll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Disappointment, Mean

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.240, Penguin

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.

  Bella Abzug

  Rights, Abortion, Political

  14 Copy quote

• The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of the Earth. For the first time in human history, we can agree on the basic story of the galaxies, the stars, the planets, minerals, life forms, and human cultures. This story does not diminish the spiritual traditions of the classical or tribal periods of human history. Rather, the story provides the proper setting for the teachings of all traditions, showing the true magnitude of their central truths.

  Brian Swimme

  Spiritual, Stars, Teaching

  43 Copy quote

• In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square

  Philip Yancey

  Squares, Risk, Church

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.229, Harper Collins

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the hidden springs which move the puppets in the arena of democratic elections. Men of this kind are ever ready with loud speeches lauding equality; in reality, they rule the people as any despot or military dictator might rule it.

  Konstantin Pobedonostsev

  Spring, Military, Real

  22 Copy quote

• Playing in sold out arenas several nights a week is something I have never experience before. I want to experience that. I want to experience that in my first year and build on that.

  Andrew Bogut

  Night, Years, Want

  Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. February 8, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To live is to fight. We just fight in different arenas.

  Rashad Evans

  Fighting, Mma, Different

  12 Copy quote

• We are all fighters, every single person who walks this earth is a fighter, everything that lives. To live is to fight. And we just fight in different arenas.

  Rashad Evans

  Fighting, Different, Earth

  10 Copy quote

• One’s relationship with money is lifelong, it colors one’s sense of identity, it shapes one’s attitude to other people, it connects and splits generations; money is the arena in which greed and generosity are played out, in which wisdom is exercised and folly committed. Freedom, desire, power, status, work, possession: these huge ideas that rule life are enacted, almost always, in and around money.

  John Armstrong

  Attitude, Ideas, Color

  5 Copy quote

• At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Space, Design, Events

  "The American Action Painter," Art News, Dec. 1952

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

  Bear Grylls

  Survival, Desert, Never Change

  "4 survival tips start-ups can learn from Bear Grylls" by Lucy Liddiard, www.businesscomparison.com. 2016.

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• But, that’s the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to limit the public arena, to control opinion, to make sure that the fundamental decisions that determine how the world is going to be run - which includes production, commerce, distribution, thought, social policy, foreign policy, everything - are not in the hands of the public, but rather in the hands of highly concentrated private power. In effect, tyranny unaccountable to the public.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Fate, Hands

  "On Microsoft and Corporate Control of the Internet". Interview with Anna Couey, chomsky.info. May 6, 1998.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source