Credentials Quotes

• The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern.

  Max Lucado

  Business, Differences, People

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.409, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hero, Scary, Overcoming

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• It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Writing, Sight, People

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• One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question

  Thabo Mbeki

  Views, People, Facts

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• There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.

  Peter Ustinov

  Jesus, Machines, Television

  "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" edited by Robert Andrews, (p. 742), 1993.

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• A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Sociologists, Bigots

  Dinesh D'Souza (1996). “The End of Racism: Finding Values In An Age Of Technoaffluence”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Patriotic, Long Ago, Supportive

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• We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.

  Peter MacKay

  Country, Stress, Support

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• ...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Rights, Self, Effort

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• But you know, really, if you think about it Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think.

  Gene Siskel

  Believe, Thinking, Essentials

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• If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

  Vin Diesel

  Inspirational, Dream, New York

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• Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

  Mordecai

  Canada, Paranoia, Wells

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• Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.

  Jahangir Khan

  Sports, Successful, Squash

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• People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?"
  do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance
  of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.

  Kim Woo-jung

  Uplifting, Fire, Light

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• Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Pride, Air, Importance

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• I'm an actor first and foremost. My producing credentials are just to say, "Yeah, I love this story and now let's bring the people, the ensemble together," and I get out of the way. I have no desire to check on schedules and shooting schedules and money and stuff like that.

  Pierce Brosnan

  People, Desire, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Poet, Uniqueness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.203, Harvard University Press

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• It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Refugee, Elizabeth Ii, Descendants

  The Observer, July 03, 1977.

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• Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials

  Florence King

  Animal, Rights, Giving

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• After we testified before the Credentials Committee in Atlantic City, their Mississippi representative testified also. He said I got 600 votes but when they made the count in Mississippi, I was told I had 388 votes. So actually it is no telling how many votes I actually got.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Cities, Atlantic City, Vote

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• [Professional accountants ] should be encouraging companies to enhance their green credentials by switching to renewables, and to respect core labor standards and human rights.

  Kofi Annan

  Rights, Green, Switching

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• Schools in the future will be judged less because of the credentials that they bestow, and more because of the experiences that they offer.

  Roger Schank

  School, Offers, Judged

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• When I'm hiring, I don't look for credentials, I look for knowledge.

  Aza Raskin

  Inspirational, Looks, Intriguing

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• Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.

  Patrick Henry

  Prayer, Tables, Hospitality

  Patrick Henry (2000). “The Ironic Christian's Companion: Finding the Marks of God's Grace in the World”, p.89, Penguin

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• But on the other hand, in discussion and debate concerning social issues or American foreign policy, Vietnam or the Middle East, for example, the issue is constantly raised, often with considerable venom. I've repeatedly been challenged on grounds of credentials, or asked, what special training do you have that entitles you to speak of these matters. The assumption is that people like me, who are outsiders from a professional viewpoint, are not entitled to speak on such things.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hands, Issues, People

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