Desirable Quotes - Page 19

• Sexiness is no longer defined just as whether we are desirable, but also what we desire. The more liberated women become - economically, politically, and personally - the more erotic we are. Freedom is a lot sexier than dependency.

  Naomi Wolf

  Erotic, Desire, Sexiness

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• Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible. This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.

  John Berger

  Country, Majority, Today

  "Ways of Seeing". Book by John Berger, 1972.

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• Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God. Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of God. Beloved are Israel, for unto them was given the desirable Torah

  Rabbi Akiva

  Children, Men, Israel

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• If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.

  Tony Wilson

  States, Birmingham, Awake

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• But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

  James A. Garfield

  Men, Welfare, Found

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• Love is not simply a feeling of romantic excitement; it is more than a desire to marry a potential partner; it goes beyond intense sexual attraction; it exceeds the thrill at having "captured" a highly desirable social prize. Real love is an expression of the deepest appreciation for another human being; it is awareness of his or her needs and longings- past, present and future. It is unselfish, giving and caring.

  James Dobson

  Appreciation, Real, Caring

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• All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.

  Aldous Huxley

  Two, Desire, Tasks

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.157, Transaction Publishers

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• Branding is not merely about differentiating products; it is about striking emotional chords with consumers. It is about cultivating identity, attachment, and trust to inspire customer loyalty. Chinese brands score low on attributes such as “sophisticated,” “desirable,” “innovative,” “friendly,” and “trustworthy.”

  Nirmalya Kumar

  Loyalty, Emotional, Attachment

  "Can You Name a Chinese Brand?" by Nirmalya Kumar, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2013.

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• Happiness and sadness are just two eternal truths like day and night. A man of superior intellect is never affected by these emotions. They are not base emotions at all but a reflection of our thoughts, a reaction to our perspective on things we see, hear and do. Equanimity is not only desirable in a warrior, but a must. Without it, you are as good as dead in the battlefield.

  Anand Neelakantan

  Sadness, Warrior, Night

  Anand Neelakantan (2012). “ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished”, p.36, LEADSTART PUBLISHING PVT LTD

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• It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.

  Isaac Watts

  God Love, Should, Expected

  Isaac Watts (1812). “The works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in nine volumes”, p.517

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• I place a higher value on work ethic than talent, because, in certain areas, you just need to cast, you need to cast actors with talent, you need to hire directors with talent, but I've worked with very talented people who have a poor work ethic, and the outcome is less desirable than people who are less talented and have an incredible work ethic.

  Damon Lindelof

  People, Work Ethic, Directors

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.

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• Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to improve institutions we deem defective. But let us, in doing so, respect the orderly processes of the law. Any other course enthrones tyrants and dooms freedom.

  Barry Goldwater

  Tyrants, Law, Persuasion

  Barry Goldwater (2010). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.27, Bottom of the Hill

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• The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

  John Dewey

  Community, Improvement, Problem

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.64, 谷月社

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• Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.

  Naomi Wolf

  Character, Men, Males

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are desirable in education are themselves moral. Discipline, natural development, culture, social efficiency, are moral traits - marks of a person who is a worthy member of that society which it is the business of education to further.

  John Dewey

  Views, Discipline, Development

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.344, Courier Corporation

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• The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Support, Soldier, Quality

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief.... In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Communication, Humanity, Understanding

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.25, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• The lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people.

  Frank Zappa

  People, Lifestyle

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui Magazine, April 1979.

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• Lucidity, I maintain, is almost always desirable.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Lucidity

  Yi-Fu Tuan (2000). “Escapism”, p.23, JHU Press

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• Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

  Andre Gide

  Children, Parent, Would Be

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.293, Routledge

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• Providing more desirable products, services, and customer experiences is vital to the continued existence of any business. And that is INNOVATION.

  Peter Drucker

  Innovation, Existence, Customer Experience

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• I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable.

  Nicholas Thorburn

  Song, Challenges, Ready

  "The Sound of Serial: Composer Nick Thorburn Explains the Making of the Podcast Score". Interview with Sandy Honig, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2014.

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• Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Birth Control, Method

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Self Restraint V. Self-indulgence”

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• Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by making these grooves appear to the individual as the only possible ones.

  Peter L. Berger

  Individual, Institutions, Procedures

  Peter L. Berger (1973). “Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective”, Overlook Pr

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• Remember that you are not saved by increased levels of holiness, however desirable it is that you should reach them. ...It is Christ who saves us-through faith. Your faith is a poor and crumbling thing, as is your spiritual service. Jesus Christ alone is qualified and able to save you because of what He has done.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Spiritual, Jesus, Crumbling

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