Confronting Quotes - Page 5

• I ask two questions when I am confronting life on a moment to moment basis when something important is happening. (1) What is factually happening right now? (2) What does my soul know about this and want me to know about this? It is amazing that when I give myself 20-25 seconds to seriously consider these questions, almost instantly I will arrive at a deeper awareness and a richer understanding of what is happening right now - from the soul's level of awareness.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Two, Giving, Soul

  Source: www.trulyalive.net

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• Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.

  Elizabeth O'Connor

  Important, Tasks, World

  Elizabeth O'Connor (1983). “Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them”

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• Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Joy, Challenges, Risk

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 31, 2011.

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• Russia has a common interest in confronting radical Islamic terrorism and especially ISIS. And if we have opportunities to work together I think President Trump is looking for an opportunity to begin that relationship anew.

  Mike Pence

  Islamic, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The biggest problem confronting the country is our excessive spending. If we're not going to deal with it now, when are we going to deal with it? And we've watched the government explode over the last four years. We've dealt with the revenue issue.

  Mitch McConnell

  Country, Government, Years

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Where we are now is we have resolved the revenue issue and the question is what are we going to do about spending. I wish the president would lead us in this discussion rather than putting himself in a position of having to be dragged kicking and screaming to the table to discuss the single biggest issue confronting our future.

  Mitch McConnell

  Issues, Wish, President

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• You can not be successful without confronting rejection.

  Michael Ealy

  Successful, Rejection, Can Not

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.

  Karl Marx

  Tasks, World, Philosopher

  Karl Marx (1976). “The German Ideology: Including Theses on Feuerbach and Introduction to The Critique of Political Economy”, Pyr Books

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• I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Christian, Believe, Thinking

  Stanley Hauerwas (2010). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.159, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!

  Margaret Thatcher

  Liberty, Essentials, Injury

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book [the Bible].

  Ronald Reagan

  Book, Home, Answers

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• Most people have a hard time confronting their weaknesses in a really straightforward, evidence-based way. They also have problems speaking frankly to others. Some people love knowing about their weaknesses and mistakes and those of others because it helps them be so much better, while others can't stand it.

  Ray Dalio

  Mistake, Hard Times, Knowing

  "ay Dalio, head of the world's largest hedge fund, explains his succession plan for Bridgewater and how its 'radically transparent' culture is misunderstood". Interview with Richard Feloni, uk.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2016.

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• Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

  Annie E. Clark

  Emotional, Ego, Weakness

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I realized that I hated politics. I mean that is you know... I realized being in the jungle that what I had thought I could do, I mean changing the way politics were being done in Colombia, was not possible the way I wanted to do it - by confronting, by denouncing.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Mean, Done, Way

  "Big Think Interview With Ingrid Betancourt". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 19, 2010.

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• As TV embedded itself into the national consciousness, it got us to remember how more than just the facts transmits truth and reality - and in fun, engaging ways. TV also showed us how telling our stories, confronting our own truths makes us and the people with whom we're sharing feel less lonely and alienated.

  Lee Gutkind

  Lonely, Fun, Reality

  Source: speechwriting-ghostwriting.typepad.com

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• Confronting the US made him [Hugo Chavez] a target for demonization. Partisan and/or lazy journalism exaggerated his faults, ignored his virtues, and downplayed the influence of strident and on occasion anti-democratic opponents. The flip side is his anti-imperialist posturing so dazzled his cheerleaders they overlooked his flaws, flaws which worsened over time, and they created their own caricature.

  Rory Carroll

  Lazy, Target, Opponents

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• We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.

  Abraham Maslow

  Maturity, Safety, Choices

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.

  Alexander the Great

  Son, Land, Feet

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• There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.

  Dennis Prager

  New York, War, Evil

  "Moral Equivalence and Muslim Violence" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2010.

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• It's a shame that we have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress to get the president to deal with the biggest problem confronting our future. And that's our excessive spending.

  Mitch McConnell

  President, Use, Problem

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Suffering, Heroic

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• I can't agree that what we're seeing is a matter of the American bourgeoisie confronting workers everywhere. It's more like the international plutocracy eliminating the American middle class while inadvertently creating a bourgeoisie in India, China, etc. I do agree that Soros's role is paradoxical, but if all billionaires (or even a few more) were like Soros, the dialectic would give us global social democracy PDQ.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Creating, Class, Giving

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness with all beings. Don't ever apologize for crying for the trees burning in the Amazon or over the waters polluted from mines in the Rockies. Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. That is what is happening as we see people honestly confronting the sorrows of our time.

  Joanna Macy

  Grief, Heart, Compassion

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• Defeating terrorism in Libya can only be achieved through the political and institutional determination of a united Libyan government, which will need the strong and unequivocal support from the international community in confronting the myriad challenges facing Libya.

  Bernardino Leon

  Strong, Determination, Government

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• I had my own insecurities, which a lot of my comedy would come from, about not being able to live up to their academic expectations. Acting out those insecurities was a way of confronting them, like, “Let me just lean into being a guy who can’t read or write.”

  Charlie Day

  Writing, Expectations, Guy

  Interview with Guillermo Del Toro, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2014.

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