Causes Quotes - Page 31

• Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perseverance, Stay Strong, Eye

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• I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

  David Bowie

  Change, Making Changes

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• Fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they can in no way understand, believing them therefore to be done by power divine. for these reasons when we shall have seen that nothing can be produced from nothing, we shall then more correctly ascertain that which we are seeking, both the elements out of which every thing can be produced and the manner in which every thing can be produced in which all things are done without the hands of the gods.

  Lucretius

  Believe, Hands, Heaven

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.15, Delphi Classics

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• In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later, to give him pleasure and cause trouble. In the paintings that adorn churches, God is an old man with a beard, never an old woman with white hair. And all the heroes are males: from Prometheus who discovered fire to Icarus who tried to fly, on down to Jesus whom they call the Son of God and of the Holy Spirit, almost as though the woman giving birth to him were an incubator or a wetnurse.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Jesus, Hero, Son

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• Programming in Basic causes brain damage.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Brain, Damage, Programming

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• For many phenomena, 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes.

  Joseph M. Juran

  Programming, Stem, Consequence

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• All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Pyramids, Programming

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.44, GENERAL PRESS

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• No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.

  Socrates

  Fashion, Teaching, Mean

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• These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Astrology, May, Preservation

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1911). “Poetry and Truth: From My Own Life”

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• Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.

  Rajneesh

  Attachment, Roots, Ego

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• Attachment is the root cause of all misery - and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything. It starts becoming identified, attached, it does not know how to keep a distance; hence the misery.

  Rajneesh

  Distance, Attachment, Roots

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• Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

  Blaise Pascal

  Vanity, Cases, Cause And Effect

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.54, David C Cook

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• The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

  Joseph Addison

  Secret, Divinity, Steps

  Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.182

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• Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.

  Al Pacino

  Powerful, Rebel, Grew Up

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it's new, because it's human and because it seeks to connect.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Might, Individual

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• Perhaps the greatest mistake we can make, which causes loss of self-respect, is making the opinions of others more important than our own opinion of ourselves. You'll find no shortage of opinions directed at you. If you allow them to undermine your self-respect, you're seeking the respect of others over your own, and you're abdicating yourself.

  Wayne Dyer

  Mistake, Loss, Self

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• A proper saute pan should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone else's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent, the victim's head or your pan, then throw that pan right in the trash.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Skulls, Doubt, Serious

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• Cause even the stars they burn, some even fall to the earth. We've got a lot to learn, God knows we're worth it.

  Jason Mraz

  Stars, Fall, Earth

  Song: I Won't Give Up

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• Following an anti-inflammato ry diet can help counteract the chronic inflammation that is a root cause of many serious diseases, including those that become more frequent as people age. It is a way of selecting and preparing foods based on science that can help people achieve and maintain optimum health over their lifetime.

  Andrew Weil

  Roots, People, Age

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• Take a look at me now, cause there's just an empty space. And you coming back to me is against all odds and that's what I've got to face.

  Phil Collins

  Odds, Space, Looks

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• Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be a prince prevailing with God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Prayer, Names

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1883). “Illustrations and Meditations: Or, Flowers from a Puritan's Garden”

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• If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new.

  Andy Stanley

  Dream, Giving, World

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.76, Multnomah

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• In Canada... we should be there for the nurses, cause they are always there for us.

  Rick Mercer

  Nurse, Canada, Should

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• It is best if we do not listen to or look at the person whom we consider to be the cause of our anger. Like a fireman, we have to pour water on the blaze first and not waste time looking for the one who set the house on fire. "Breathing in, I know that I am angry. Breathing out, I know that I must put all my energy into caring for my anger." So we avoid thinking about the other person, and we refrain from doing or saying anything as long as our anger persists. If we put all our mind into observing our anger, we will avoid doing any damage that we may regret later.

  Nhat Hanh

  Regret, Caring, Thinking

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• ...self-important western journalists who'd given up their sacred trust to become cheerleaders for trendy causes, the way communist journalists had once been cheerleaders for the government...They were depriving the free world of its most valuable weapon in condemning and exposing the worst human scourge since Nazism: the targeting and murder of civilians to achieve political and religious ends.

  Naomi Ragen

  Religious, Government, Self

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