Dominant Quotes

• Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life Is Good, Bad Ass, Expression

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• My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment, which is a good thing for someone who still thinks of themselves as a very basic American.

  Twyla Tharp

  Education, Mother, Simple

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

  Mao Zedong

  Leadership, Responsibility, Work Out

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• You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self.

  Ryan Gosling

  Self, Expression, Support

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• Most women in our culture, then, are disordered when it comes to issues of self-worth, self-entitlement, self-nourishment, and comfort with their own bodies; eating disorders, far from being 'bizarre' and anomalous, are utterly continuous with a dominant element of the experience of being female in this culture.

  Susan Bordo

  Self Worth, Issues, Anorexia

  Susan Bordo (2004). “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body”, p.57, Univ of California Press

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• [The scientist] believes passionately in facts, in measured facts. He believes there are no bad facts, that all facts are good facts, though they may be facts about bad things, and his intellectual satisfaction can come only from the acquisition of accurately known facts, from their organization into a body of knowledge, in which the inter-relationship of the measured facts is the dominant consideration.

  Robert Watson-Watt

  Believe, Knowledge, Science

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• No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

  Isaac Asimov

  Motivational, Future, Continuing On

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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• Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying "no" to the dominant culture that is trapping us in destructive ways of living might be the most life-serving thing we can do.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Culture, May, Might

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage, and a mystique that has allowed the dominant regime to manipulate the Kashmiri "Other" as a stereotypical and predictable entity.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Two, India And Pakistan, Lineage

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• We must see ourselves in community with all other people at local, national and global levels. While this may seem superficially easy, it is actually not. Western culture, now globally dominant, has systematically trained us to think and act as though we are separate individuals, often in competition with each other for scarce resources of one sort or another, primarily money, which has be-come the perceived means to all we want and need in life.

  Elisabet Sahtouris

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

  Steven Rattner

  Economic Inequality, Presidential, Political

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• Jay Lethal doing that Black Machsimo character, as good as that was, it was fantastic and so entertaining. But now Jay Lethal has turned himself into this very formidable, dominant world champion, who is having some of the best matches in the entire world. So it's really cool.

  Adam Cole

  Character, Champion, Black

  Source: 411mania.com

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• Can we think more than one thought at the same time? Most of us know we can't do that. Both hemispheres are always working all of the time. But one of them is always dominant.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Thinking, Hemisphere, Always Working

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• The image of where you are going has to be more dominant than the image of where you are.

  Esther Hicks

  Where You Are, Where You Are Going

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• It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Civilization, Aggravation, Long

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• The most successful people start with dominant talent—and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.

  Tom Rath

  Successful, Practice, Skills

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• Iago is the dominant trance state of our planet. It influences our relationships, our sexuality, our parenting, and our attempts to relax. It permeates corporate business, international politics, and our economic system.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Relax, Influence, Economic

  Arjuna Ardagh (2010). “The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World”, p.21, New World Library

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• In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Art, Space, Roles

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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• I feel dominant - I feel the triangle offense utilizes all my skills.

  Amar'e Stoudemire

  Skills, Triangles, Feels

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• The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.

  Bo Lozoff

  World, Causes, Problem

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• Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

  Peter Drucker

  Keys, Management, Economic

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• If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.

  Terence McKenna

  Beautiful, Self, Imagination

  Terence McKenna (2010). “Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge”, p.253, Random House

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• If you can think about what you want in your mind, and make that your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Thinking, Mind

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• You attract your dominant thoughts.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Secret Law Of Attraction, Attraction

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• We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Challenges, Principles, Needs

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