Harsh Quotes - Page 10

• Be a harsh critic of your own wins.

  Vasilios Kotronias

  Learning, Winning, Chess

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• Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist, a positivist, a realist, and several other ists. The technique seems refutation by denigration: If you can attach a label to my approach, you don't have to say what is wrong with it... I am sure that Einstein, Heisenberg and Dirac didn't worry about whether they were realists or instrumentalists.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Worry, Technique

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• Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age.

  Albert Outler

  Believe, Serenity, Age

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• Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing.

  Scott Jurek

  Pain, Loss, Blessing

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.4, A&C Black

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• Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional peaks amongst the valleys, but the peaks are so few-things like genuine flashes of virtuoso brush inking, like I've never executed before or since-I can count on one hand the number of jobs where I've been able to hit that mark. The same with penciling. Sometimes it just flows, but more often than not, it's pure physical and spiritual torment just to get something decent on paper. I often get very discouraged with the whole creative process.

  Dave Stevens

  Spiritual, Jobs, Numbers

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• Unable to maintain their government-granted monopoly, the powerful railroad
  interests turned to government to do the regulating and price-fixing which they
  were unable to do themselves. In fact, the pressure that induced Congress to
  enact the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 did not come from reformers bemoaning
  abuses by the powerful railroad interests; it came from the railroad interests
  themselves, asking Congress to shield them against the harsh winds of
  competition.

  Dan Smoot

  Powerful, Government, Wind

  Dan Smoot (1973). “The BUSINESS END of Government”

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• There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fun, Smart, Gambling

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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• When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.

  Lawrence Welk

  Country, Parent, Unions

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless.

  Jeff Cooper

  Finding Yourself, Be Kind, Tough

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.45, Paladin Press

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• A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is must reading for anyone with an interest in the enduring effects of the Vietnam War, the subject of crime in our streets, and the issue of personal responsibility in a harsh, chaotic world.

  Le Ly Hayslip

  War, Reading, Book

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• Business is cold and harsh. Business doesn't consider your personal needs or the ends of your family. Business doesn't allow you to keep to your job after you slaved at a place for 20+ years. Rather than increase your benefits, business cuts you out of the job situation so that you're job-hunting, off to find a far less prestigious position.

  Mr. Lif

  Cutting, Cold, Situation

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• It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.

  Rick Riordan

  Beautiful, Way, Kind

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.137, Penguin UK

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• Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Buddhist, Reality, Grieving

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• We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Real, Promise, World

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• There's something I want you to know,' said Cherryl, her voice taut and harsh, 'so that there won't be any pretending about it. I'm not going to put on the sweet relative act. I know what you've done to Jim and how you've made him miserable all his life. I'm going to protect him against you. I'll put you in your place. I'm Mrs. Taggart. I'm the woman in this family now.' 'That's quite all right,' said Dagny. 'I'm the man.

  Ayn Rand

  Sweet, Men, Voice

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.303, Hamilton Books

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• We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick fall across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance.

  Beryl Markham

  Nature, Pain, Fall

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• ... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Dream, Persistence

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• Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a man who is strong in many ways but who loses all control of himself when some little thing, usually of no significant consequence, disturbs his equanimity.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Strong, Pain, Anger

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• Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

  Saint Augustine

  Desire, Debtors, Demand

  Saint Augustine (2010). “Sermons on the Liturgical Seasons (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 38)”, p.95, CUA Press

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• People live their lives, constantly surrounded by anxiety. if they live long before dying, they end up in senility, worn out by concerns: a terrible fate! The body is treated in a very harsh fashion. Courageous men are seen by everyone under Heaven as worthy, but this doesn't preserve them from death. I am not sure I know whether this is sensible or not.

  Zhuangzi

  Fashion, Fate, Men

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• I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people in every profession-just unyielding.

  Catherine Keener

  Men, People, Tough Man

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• When I compare life to a dream I do not mean to denigrate it as some sort of meaningless fantasy. Life is too wonderful to be called an "illusion" unless we whisper the word in amazement, as we might when witnessing the most astonishing magic trick. What could be more magnificent than this glorious universe, in all its multifarious extravagance? Its awesome vastness and delicate detail. Its impersonal precision and intimate intensity. Its harsh necessities and lush sensuality. This dream of life is truly marvelous.

  Timothy Freke

  Dream, Mean, Gnosis

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• It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Class, Luxury

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it behooves the school to make ceaseless and intelligently organized effort to develop above all else the will for co-operation and the spirit which sees in every other individual one who has an equal right to share in the cultural and material fruits of collective human invention, industry, skill and knowledge

  John Dewey

  School, Mean, Race

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• Come in, my dearFrom that harsh worldThat has rained elements of stoneUpon your tender face.Every soulShould receive a toast from usFor bravery!

  Hafez

  Bravery, Soul, Elements

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