Ideals Quotes - Page 20

• The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Family, Dog

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• The American Dream is freedom, prosperity, peace-and liberty and justice for all. That's a big dream. It's not always easy to achieve, but that's the ideal. More than any country in history we've made gains toward a democracy that is enviable throughout the world. Dreams require perseverance if they are to be realized, and fortunately we're a hard-working country and people. We are the luckiest people in history, just by the fact that we are Americans.

  Donald Trump

  Dream, Country, Perseverance

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• The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Evil, Progress, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2100, Manonmani Publishers

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• No one in this country need go hungry, and alleviating the problem is primarily a matter of readjusting our priorities. In both the government and the private sector, self-interest has displaced the ideal of community that made this country great. The old world view of "us, we, our" has been replaced by "I, me, mine." The reasons for this are manifold and complex, but at the end of the day, we need to remember that, if one of us is suffering needlessly, all of us are diminished.

  Don Henley

  Country, Government, Self

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• Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  Mind, Development, Consciousness

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel (1879). “Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature”

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• With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

  Calvin Trillin

  Crazy, Thinking, Trying

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• Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly
  concerned with hitting his page count, telling good stories, and
  keeping his family fed. Not pursuing some aesthetic ideal - to seek
  that motive in Kirby's work was, he suggested, misguided. I happened to be holding the original artwork to the Devil Dinosaur #4 double-splash, which I turned around and showed Eisner - who took a moment, and said something uncharacteristic: “Okay, I might be wrong.

  Glen David Gold

  Devil, Stories, Calling

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• If you don’t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction to the subject for anybody who thinks they ought to understand what’s happening around them but is put off by the usual dense text and economics jargon.

  Diane Coyle

  Book, Thinking, Laughing

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• I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a rainy night? A hammock in a freshly mown backyard? A verandah overlooking the summer sea? Good choices, every one. But I have no doubt that they are all merely displacements, sentimental attempts to replicate the warmth and snugness of my mother's lap.

  Michael Dirda

  Summer, Mother, Reading

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• Justice for all children is the high ideal in a democracy.

  Grace Abbott

  Children, Justice For All, Democracy

  Grace Abbott, Judith Sealander (2015). “The Grace Abbott Reader”, p.8, U of Nebraska Press

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• Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.

  Elaine Scarry

  Real, Land, Bird

  Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.86, Princeton University Press

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• In an ideal state of society we never lose sight of the womanliness of women…why should it be considered a compliment to any woman to be told she writes, paints, sings, talks, or even thinks, like a man?

  Elizabeth Wordsworth

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• Lenin's ideal was to build a nation's production effort according to the model of the post office.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Office, Effort, Models

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• Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause? I don't think so. All summations have a beginning, all effect has a story, all kindness beings with the sown seed. Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of light is the crossroads of - indolence, or action. Be ignited or be gone.

  Mary Oliver

  Kindness, Thinking, Light

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• The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.

  Wendell Berry

  Cities, Goal, Balance

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Art, Garden, Doe

  Isamu Noguchi (1999). “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• The ideal hole is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number, gives the fullest advantage for accurate play, stimulates players to improve their game, and never becomes monotonous.

  Alister MacKenzie

  Numbers, Pleasure, Holes

  "Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and Greenkeeping".

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• A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal

  Hjalmar Branting

  Equality, Humanity, Doe

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• Give us our parliament in Scotland. We will start with no traditions. We will start with ideals. We will start with purpose, with courage. We will start with the aim and object that there will be 134 men and women, pledged to 134 Scottish constituencies, to spend their whole brain power, their whole courage and their whole soul in making Scotland into a country in which we can take people from all the nations of the earth and say: this is our land, this is our Scotland, these are our people, these are our men, our works, our women and children: can you beat it?

  James Maxton

  Country, Children, Men

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• I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic. One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It is like a memory - an awareness -of perfection.

  Agnes Martin

  Art, Memories, Perfection

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• I believe that true beauty comes from inside you and that always shows through. I have no problem with whatever the next look is, whether it's big blonde hair and blue eyes or green hair and dark eyes. That's fine so long as there isn't just one ideal image.

  Alek Wek

  Believe, Eye, Dark

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• Look to the Lord and not to the world for your ideas and ideals about men and women.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Men, Ideas, Looks

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• You are a living mockery of your own ideals. If not, you have set your ideals too low.

  Charles Ludlam

  Lows, Mockery, Ifs

  Charles Ludlam (1989). “The Complete Plays of Charles Ludlam”, Harper Perennial

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• This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.

  Ossian Everett Mills

  Men, Good Man, Patient

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• Perfectionism and optimalism are not distinct ways of being, an either-or choice, but rather they coexist in each person. And while we can move from perfectionism toward optimalism, we never fully leave perfectionism behind and never fully reach optimalism ahead. The optimalism ideal is not a distant shore to be reached but a distant star that guides us and can never be reached. As Carl Rogers pointed out, ‘The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination

  Tal Ben-Shahar

  Stars, Good Life, Moving

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