Either Or Quotes

• Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Either you run the day or the day runs you.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 15, 2016

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• Balance isn't either/or; it's 'and'.

  Stephen Covey

  Balance

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.599, Mango Media Inc.

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• Life is not "either or," it's "both and"

  Royce White

  Life Is

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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  It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Luck, Enemy

  LadyWindermere's Fan act 1 (1892)

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• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

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• Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

  Mark Twain

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Positive Thinking

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.58, Univ of California Press

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• We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Two, Alternatives, Possibility

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• It's an either/or world now.

  Rick Yancey

  World

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.51, Penguin

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• Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over homilies, good humor over jokes, good nature over bad, feeling over sentiment, truth over poetry, consciousness over explanations, tragedy over pathos, comedy over tragedy, entertainment over art, private over public, generosity over meanness, charity over murder, love over charity, irreplaceable over interchangeable, divergence over concurrence, principle over interest, people over principle.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Art, People, Generosity

  Marvin Mudrick (1981). “Nobody Here But Us Chickens”

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• Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation - but rather, for the vast majority, the adventure of living in between.

  Simon Schama

  Adventure, Majority, Stories

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• I have experienced racism in this country. My children have experienced racism in this country. I wouldn't say America is against me. It is not an either/or proposition. But there are some people who hold fast to certain religious beliefs.

  James Peterson

  Country, Religious, Children

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world.

  Kate Clinton

  Morning, Thinking, Decision

  FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Jun 26, 2013

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• I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just one thing.

  Greta Gerwig

  People, Kind, Feels

  "The Funniest Movie Of The Summer". Interview with BuzzFeed News, www.buzzfeed.com.

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• We're finally learning that it is not an either-or situation ... Feelings and learning and emotion are all very integral to each other.

  Linda Lantieri

  Feelings, Emotion, Resolution

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• What I didn't understand was that the personal and the political go together. I felt at the time I had to sacrifice my children's present for their future. It seemed an either/or. I didn't realise that by being with one's own children I would have had a better understanding of the ones who are not my own. I was thinking of them but I didn't spend the time that they needed from me. It's a tribute to them that they came out so well.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Children, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• It's not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Men, Weapons

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “Tehanu: Book Four”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.

  Madame de Stael

  Country, Art, Imagination

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• I think writing comics is predicated on being a fan - there's no either/or. I'd argue I'm an even bigger fan now than when I started because I know how the hot dogs get made. And I kinda always saw the moving parts. I think I appreciate the good ones more now that I realize how lousy the production process can be, how hard it can be, and how easily something good can get crushed in its cogs.

  Matt Fraction

  Dog, Moving, Writing

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• There is no either / or between being competitive and collaborative. You have to be both and decide which in each situation.

  Cathie Black

  Situation

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• Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Integrity, World, Sometimes

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.47, Penguin

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• Women are not men's equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are quite simply different races.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Responsibility, Men, Race

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• What I'm having is this conflict in my life right now, that in New York, I see my directing friends and I see acting friends and they've all got this level of passion about either or both of those directions that I've never really found myself having.

  Danny Pintauro

  New York, Passion, Acting

  "For Actor Danny Pintauro, There's Life Beyond TV / Former `Who's the Boss?' star looking for challenges" by David Wiegand, www.sfgate.com. September 5, 2000.

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• People don't show up here (at the courtroom) because they believe evolution is bad science. They show up because they believe that if they accept evolution, then they are abandoning their religious beliefs. They see it as an either/or proposition: Either evolution happened, or God loves you.

  Eugenie Scott

  Religious, Love You, Believe

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