Desirable Quotes - Page 12

• Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and what would be desirable, while in the poor countries large masses of people seem to be satisfied by merely surviving.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Country, People, Would Be

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• We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

  John D. MacDonald

  Imagination, World, Environment

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• The need for a quick, satisfactory copying machine that could be used right in the office seemed very apparent to me-there seemed such a crying need for it-such a desirable thing if it could be obtained. So I set out to think of how one could be made.

  Chester Carlson

  Science, Thinking, Office

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• We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good for anything. You will recollect that, at the first meeting of the Board of Directors, I took the ground that 'it was our policy to make the office of operator desirable, to pay operators well and make their situation so agreeable that intelligent men and men of character will seek the place and dread to lose it.' I still think so, and, depend upon it, it is the soundest economy to act on this principle.

  Samuel Morse

  Taken, Character, Science

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• Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure

  Socrates

  Memories, Class, Feelings

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• It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  People, Breaths

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• I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century.

  Shinzo Abe

  Country, Believe, Writing

  "A Conversation With Shinzo Abe". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.washingtonpost.com. April 22, 2007.

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• The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Country, Islamic, Differences

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, New Year, Behavior

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Dec 30, 2015

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• I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable.

  Ralph Ellison

  Business, Confusing, Saws

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.193, Vintage

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• Threefold are those supreme births of this divine force that is in the world, they are true, they are desirable; he moves there wide-overt within the Infinite and shines pure, luminous and fulfilling.... Of that which is in mortal in mortals, and possessed of the truth, is a God and established inwardly as an energy working out in our divine powers.... Become high uplifted, O Strength, pierce all veils, manifest in as the things of the Godhead.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Moving, Work Out, Shining

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• Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

  Ernestine Rose

  Children, Father, Philosophy

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle, of his wife, or his wife's maid; but if a mere wish could attain it, he would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Men, Wife

  Samuel Johnson (1807). “Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.76

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• Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Atheism, Citizens

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.147

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• I hate clothes that look saleable. I love when they look desirable.

  Geoffrey Beene

  Hate, Clothes, Looks

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• Culturally we don't allow women to be as free as they would like, because that is frightening. We either shun those women or deem them crazy… But being that woman who pushes the boundaries means you also bring in less desirable aspects of yourself. At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.

  Kim Gordon

  Crazy, Mean, The End Of The Day

  Kim Gordon (2015). “Girl in a Band”, p.109, Faber & Faber

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• The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them.

  Phillip Lopate

  Discrimination

  Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.143, Basic Books

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• Do not turn the power of your mind upon others, but turn it upon yourself in such a way that it will make you stronger, more positive, more capable, and more efficient, and as you develop in this manner, success must come of itself. There is only one way by which you can influence others legitimately, and that is through the giving of instruction, but in that case, there is no desire to influence. You desire simply to impart knowledge and information, and you exercise a most desirable influence without desiring to do so.

  Christian D. Larson

  Exercise, Giving, Mind

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.256, Penguin

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• Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.

  Francis Arinze

  Religious, People, Catholic

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• Values heavily influence the practice of health habits. For example, exercise for women may be considered desirable in one culture but undesirable in another.(Donovan, Jessor, Costa, 1991) As a result, patterns among women will differe greatly between two cultures.

  Shelley E. Taylor

  Exercise, Practice, Two

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• That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

  T. S. Eliot

  Worst Moments, Desire, Wish

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• There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Insomnia, World, Oblivion

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1899). “A Village Ophelia”

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• It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

  Carrie Snow

  Technology, Use, Facts

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• I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a lifestyle which will enable us to be spontaneous, independent, yet related to each other, rather than maintaining a lifestyle which only allows to make and unmake, produce and consume - a style of life which is merely a way station on the road to the depletion and pollution of the environment. The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

  Ivan Illich

  Believe, Independent, Technology

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• Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Character, Mean

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli International Publications

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