Concern Quotes - Page 31

• My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

  Jackson Pollock

  Rhythm

  Claude Cernuschi, Jackson Pollock (1992). “Jackson Pollock: Meaning and Significance”, HarperCollins

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• The Bible says that when we obey God’s commands, we benefit.  I think we naturally assume that if we look out for our own interests and concerns, we will be happy.  But people who sacrifice for others will tell you that seasons of giving are the most rewarding of their lives.

  Francis Chan

  Sacrifice, Thinking, People

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.77, David C Cook

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• Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free and autonomous as well. Tragically, this never quite works out. At best, we can only be free one or two at a time-while the other dudes hold onto the wire. Which is not to say that no one has tried to dispense with wires. Many have, and sometimes it works-but it doesn't feel like jazz when it does. The music simply drifts away into the stratosphere of formal dialectic, beyond our social concerns.

  Dave Hickey

  Song, Nice, Two

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• When all humanity works for humanity, when the life-business of men and women becomes one united partnership in all matters which concern each, when neither sex, race, color, or previous condition is held as a bar to the exercise of human faculties, the world will hold in its hands the promise of a millennium which will work out its own fulfillment.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Sex, Exercise, Men

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• Vonnegut's earliest novels hint strongly at his familiarity with Wiener's work, The Human Use of Human Beings, especially his first novel, Player Piano (1952), which shows his concern for the social implications of automation, the replacement of human beings with machines.

  David Porush

  Player, Piano, Firsts

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• Whatever a person's ultimate concern may be, it will have an enormous influence on everything else the person does or believes.

  Ronald H. Nash

  Believe, Doe, May

  Ronald H. Nash (2010). “Life's Ultimate Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless

  Art Spiegelman

  Style, World, Firsts

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• Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my deepest concerns today is that the libertarian socialist core will be eroded by fashionable, post- modernist, spiritualist, mystic individualism.

  Murray Bookchin

  Views, Wings, Libertarian

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• Misrepresented its own studies and the concerns of physicians suggesting the drug may increase the risk of heart problems.

  Greg Abbott

  Heart, Drug, Risk

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• But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.

  Philip Kaufman

  Canada, Film, Reason

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. February 27, 2004.

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• The King struggles to work with other countries. It's a warrior's concern, and as current events [demonstrate], the challenges in working with international partners are very serious and far from comedic.

  Ken Watanabe

  Country, Kings, Struggle

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• There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Running, Growing

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• Whether that is healthy or not to you, or healthy or not to anyone, or a doctor, is really of no concern to me. I don’t feel alive unless I’m performing, and that’s just the way I was born.

  Lady G

  Doctors, Healthy, Alive

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• We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.

  Rollo May

  Religious, Attitude, Intellectual

  Rollo May Ph.D. (1953). “Man's Search for Himself”

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• The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ. What he is or is not no longer concerns him. He believes that he has been crucified with Christ and he is not willing either to praise or deprecate such a man.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Believe, Men

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• If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice when we give all human beings their due as creations of God. Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

  Timothy Keller

  Generosity, Giving, Justice

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.23, Penguin

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• I" cannot reach fulfillment without "thou." The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that has no outward flow to the ocean.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Ocean, Self, Flow

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• You wanna do this...you wanna go right now...do you want to, GO?...then go get The Rock a bologna sandwich because this doesn't concern you.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Funny, Wwe, Rocks

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• A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those "liberals" who prefer to improve the lives of others rather than exploit them. Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the hightest altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for our vast freedom not only to conform but to consume.

  Gore Vidal

  Self, Concern For Others, Greed

  "Screening History (Growing Up With Gore Vidal)". Book by Gore Vidal (p. 24), 1994.

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• Genuine human friendship is on the basis of human affection, irrespective of your position. Therefore, the more you show concern about the welfare and rights of others, the more you are a genuine friend. The more you remain open and sincere, then ultimately more benefits will come to you. If you forget or do not bother about others, then eventually you will lose your own benefit.

  Dalai Lama

  Friendship, Rights, Genuine Friends

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• Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements

  B. F. Skinner

  Practice, Achievement, Society

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• Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Civilization, Worship, Skyscraper

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.23, Macmillan

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• We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Criticism, Might, Hours

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.630, Delphi Classics

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• More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
  I speak, by the way, not with any sense of futility, but with a panicky conviction of the absolute meaninglessness of existence which could easily be misinterpreted as pessimism. It is not. It is merely a healthy concern for the predicament of modern man.

  Woody Allen

  Men, Healthy, Despair

  Side Effects "My Speech to the Graduates" (1980)

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• Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never a market for true art, so my main concern was always to have a job that didn’t require me to write or think.

  Nell Zink

  Art, Jobs, Writing

  "Purity of Essence: One Question for Nell Zink". Interview with Matthew Jakubowski, www.theparisreview.org. December 8, 2014.

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