Orientation Quotes - Page 6

• We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation.

  John E. Lewis

  Gay, Race, Color

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• Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.

  Ian Gawler

  Future, Past, Goal

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• ... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Real, Doors, People

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• I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

  Pauley Perrette

  Passion, Thinking, Rights

  "Pauley Perrette: from NCIS to the Daily Planet". Interview with Robert Greenberger, www.comicmix.com. June 8, 2012.

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• If you had to pick between one or the other, I can't say which one is better; but I would certainly say, in my orientation, the light of samadhi is all-pervasive. Samadhi will free you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Samadhi

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• Redemption in Christ should give the artistically gifted not only a new orientation and a new sense of purpose, but also a new vision of reality, seeing the world through the eyes of faith, looking at the human condition through the eyes of Christ.

  John Walford

  Art, Eye, Reality

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• In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .

  William J. Clinton

  Heart, Race, Law

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2953, Best Books on

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• And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

  Plato

  Love, Men, Two

  Plato, John M. Cooper, D. S. Hutchinson (1997). “Complete Works”, p.475, Hackett Publishing

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• The LSD experience usually changes forever the worldview and basic life-orientation of all who experience it

  Ralph Metzner

  Forever, Lsd, Worldview

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• When you look at what [new generation] believe in, how they value diversity, how they believe in science, how they care about the environment, how they believe in, you know, everybody getting a fair shot, how they believe in not discriminating against people for sexual orientation and you know, their belief that we have to work with other countries to create a more peaceful world and to alleviate poverty, that's the majority an entire generation that's coming up behind us.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Believe, Diversity

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian life than prayer. To enter the gaze of the Holy is never to be the same. To bathe in the Light in quiet wonder and glad surrender is to be slowly, permanently transformed. There is a richer inward orientation, a deep hunger for communion. We feel as if we are being taken over by a new control Center, and so we are.

  Richard J. Foster

  Christian, Prayer, Taken

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• Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

  Erich Fromm

  Happiness, Men, Personality

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.191, Routledge

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• I believe that those who promote discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or any other grounds are gravely mistaken about the values that make our nation strong. I will continue to move my administration in the direction of compassion, acceptance, and understanding.

  William J. Clinton

  Strong, Believe, Moving

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• George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Reality, Impossible, Defective

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• Recently, John and I got to go to Selma and perform it on the same bridge that Martin Luther King walked over. Once a landmark of a divided nation, the spirit of this bridge now for all people regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or social status. This bridge was built on hope and welded with compassion. Common

  John Legend

  Kings, Compassion, Race

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• He was a specialist in Feng Shui; that is to say, he was consulted as to the correct ubication and orientation of houses and temples, in relation to the spirits of wind and water.

  Daniele Vare

  Wind, Water, House

  Daniele Varè (1954). “Novels of Yen-Ching”

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• Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

  Marianne Williamson

  Happiness, Giving Up, Attachment

  Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Pain, Heart, Ego

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• My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.

  Ivan Reitman

  Couple, Animal, House

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 17, 2000.

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• I read a Bruce Lee quote that shifted how I'm trying to live my life right now. He said, "Some targets are only meant to be aimed at." Right? And I took that to mean a shift for myself from goal orientation to path orientation.

  Will Smith

  Mean, Goal, Trying

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have to have institutions to try to curtail the use of arbitrary power so that our greedy orientations and gangster-like proclivities don't get out of hand.

  Cornel West

  Believe, Hands, Accountability

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Marriage partners, not government, should define the terms and spiritual orientation of their union in accordance with our nation's guarantee of religious freedom.

  Michael Badnarik

  Spiritual, Religious, Government

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• Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonial occasions, with a few startling exceptions resist alcohol, because if one drinks one loses one's orientation. Orientation is felt as a protection rather than as a strait jacket and its loss provokes extreme anxiety.

  Margaret Mead

  Strong, Loss, Space

  Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead (1942). “Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis”

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• There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.

  Raymond Smullyan

  Responsibility, Moral, Sin

  Jason Rosenhouse, Raymond M. Smullyan (2014). “Four Lives: A Celebration of Raymond Smullyan”, p.325, Courier Corporation

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• Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

  Ernest Gellner

  Philosophy, Assessment, Speak

  Ernest Gellner (1959). “Words and Things: A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology”

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