Contagious Quotes - Page 5

• Grief is as contagious as a yawn.

  Sue Grafton

  Grief

  Sue Grafton (2011). “V is for Vengeance”, p.81, Penguin

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• But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Empathy, Needs, Mood

  Josephine Humphreys (2000). “The Fireman's Fair”, p.50, Penguin

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• In a contagious world,we learn to keep our distance. If we get too close to those who are suffering, we might get infected by their pain. It may not be convenient or comfortable. But only when you get close enough to catch their hurt will they be close enough to catch your love.

  John Ortberg

  Hurt, Pain, Distance

  John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.56, Harper Collins

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• The message of individual liberty and peace is contagious.

  Vince Vaughn

  Liberty, Messages, Individual

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• Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long before astronomers had any good use for it. I suppose you can't blame the doctors. Venus is the goddess of beauty and love, so she ought to be the goddess of its medical consequences.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Doctors, Beauty And Love, Long

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.33, Prometheus Books

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• A great teacher is not simply one who imparts knowledge to his students, but one who awakens their interest in it and makes them eager to pursue it for themselves. He is a spark plug, not a fuel pipe. The reason colleges exist is to bring students into contact with contagious personalities, for otherwise they might as well be correspondance schools.

  Edmund Ware Sinnott

  Teacher, School, College

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• Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

  Peter Abelard

  Writing, Special, Disease

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• Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others. . . . Business is dependent upon action. It cannot go forward by hesitation. Those in executive positions must fortify themselves with facts and accept responsibility for decisions based upon them. Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.

  Heinz Hopf

  Business, Responsibility, Decision

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• The temptation to entertain instead of selling is contagious.

  David Ogilvy

  Temptation, Selling

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• Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Epidemics, Taste, Wellness

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• A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Spring, Comforting, Acquaintance

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

  David McCullough

  Ideas, Leader, Shows

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• Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Rudeness, Patience Love, Meekness

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• The movement is contagious, and the people in it are the ones who pass on the spirit.

  Yuri Kochiyama

  People, Movement, Spirit

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• The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.

  Marion Barry

  Weather, Long, People

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• Happiness can be just as contagious as misery.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Misery

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• Negative talking is contagious.

  John C. Maxwell

  Talking, Stay Positive, Negative

  John C. Maxwell (1996). “The Winning Attitude: Your Pathway to Personal Success”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Stay Positive, Faces

  John C. Maxwell (1996). “The Winning Attitude: Your Pathway to Personal Success”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.

  Robert McCrum

  Communication, Mean, Microsoft

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• The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia, and sometimes culminates in death.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Philosophical, Profound

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• Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.

  David Halberstam

  Fear, Brave, Secret

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• Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.

  H. Beam Piper

  Disease, Sanity, Seems

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• Enthusiasm is by far the highest paid quality on earth, probably because it is one of the rarest; yet it is one of the most contagious.

  Frank Bettger

  Quality, Earth, Enthusiasm

  Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.

  Paul Tournier

  Tasks, Christ, Intensity

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• Every last word is contagious.

  Jericho Brown

  Lasts, Last Words

  Jericho Brown (2015). “The New Testament”, p.13, Copper Canyon Press

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