Generous Quotes - Page 16

• To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol - a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in
  heart and cheerful of spirit.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Heart, Our Generation, Space

  "The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes". Book by John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge University Press, volume xxviii, 1998.

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• Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am. Undoubtedly, there are other routes to learning the wishes and dreams of the presumably opposite sex, but I know of none more direct, or more highly motivating, than being the mother of sons.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Dream, Sex

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• This is the most generous country in the world when it comes to immigration. There are a million people a year who legally immigrate to the United States, and people feel like we're being taken advantage of.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Taken, Years

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• America felt victorious and generous after World War II. They had also learned from the mistakes after World War I when they imposed punishment on Germany. What became of Germany? A Nazi dictatorship which threatened the world. Today's Germany doesn't feel as prosperous and generous as America then. But actually, Germany still is very prosperous.

  George Soros

  War, Mistake, Punishment

  "George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

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• I've always had a knowing that being kind is a lot more effective than being angry. And being generous has always been a characteristic I've had; whatever I've had, I've always been willing to give away. Those are best spiritual qualities.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Knowing, Giving

  "Spiritual Solutions to Every Problem: An interview with Dr. Wayne Dyer". Interview with Phil Bolsta, www.edgemagazine.net. March 1, 2002.

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• The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.

  Laurie Anderson

  Silly, Personality, Firsts

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January 2012.

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• David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly generous. He points out that, for years, there used to be an "all-star challenge" on television, in which the best professional athletes from a variety of sports competed in a kind of makeshift decathlon.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Sports, Stars, Memories

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• I learned how to let other performers have their moment. A lot of people can't do that. They just chew the scenery and steamroll over their scene partners. It doesn't make you look better in the long run to do that. You have to have balance in your scene. If it's somebody else's moment, let them have it. Learn how to be generous. Plus, it makes the audience hate you.

  Wendi McLendon-Covey

  Running, Hate, Long

  "Wendi McLendon-Covey on Her New Sitcom and Her Career in Comedy". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I've always been a generous and a kind person and so on, but never, ever have I experienced that kind of love. The world just looked different to me and still does.

  Wayne Dyer

  Doe, Different, World

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• The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping. The diminishing of grasping in yourself is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving, and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous "wisdom of egolessness."

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Peace, Real, Lying

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• A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pay, Stolen, Workers

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

  John Jay Chapman

  Happiness, Character, Emotion

  John Jay Chapman (1974). “William Lloyd Garrison”, Beekman Books Incorporated

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• Givers get trust quicker than other people. People trust generous people.

  Patch Adams

  People, Giver, Generous People

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous; in short, the kind of women I admire in real life.

  Tom Robbins

  Witty, Strong, Real

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• With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in '87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player. I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service - being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.

  Agnes Varda

  Beautiful, Player, Gambling

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• My father was from Aberdeen, and a more generous man you couldn't wish to meet. I have a gold watch that belonged to him. He sold it to me on his deathbed. I wrote him a cheque for it, post dated of course.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Father, Humor

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• Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Thinking, Employee

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• I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Believe, Fighting

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". "How to Start a Startup" lecture, Stanford, genius.com. September 25, 2014.

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• There are journalists I share a whole history with, so I tend to be generous to these guys, but those days are over.

  Guus Hiddink

  Guy, Share, Journalist

  Source: dutchsoccersite.org

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• Remembrance of Jesus' passion will heal your soul of resentment, by making it ashamed of itself when it remembers the patience of the Lord. Some people have wearied themselves and suffered for a long time in order to extract forgiveness. By far the best course, however, is to forget the offences, since the Lord says: "Forgive at once and you will be forgiven in generous measure." (cf. Luke 6:37-38)

  John Climacus

  Forgiveness, Jesus, Passion

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• It's not an accident that the U.S. ranks lowest of all major donor countries in the world - that is the share of our income that goes to development aid. Americans will ask whether, because were so generous privately, that makes up the difference. But it doesn't. We still rank far below other countries.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Differences, Income

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't know of a way to have a generous church without a generous pastor.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• You don't have to be rich to be generous. You have to be generous to be generous.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered, because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Sight, Effort, Being Thankful

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

  William Ellery Channing

  Hope, Nature, Men

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