Provoking Quotes - Page 6

• Jim Rohn is one of the most articulate, powerful, thought-provoking speakers I've seen. His unique delivery and style puts him head and shoulders above the rest.

  Harvey Mackay

  Powerful, Unique, Thought Provoking

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• This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in theworld, but it is unavoidable in a country town, where everybody is known.... 'Tis a most shocking and unworthy way of spending our precious irrecoverable time, to those who know not its value.

  Fanny Burney

  Country, Time, Way

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• Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;
  Consider the Empire and Gandhi.

  Ogden Nash

  Empires, Modus Operandi, Passivity

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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• Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Education, Mother, Children

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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• So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.

  William H. Gass

  Sleep, Issues, Wish

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• To be interesting, one has to provoke.

  Salvador Dali

  Interesting

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• It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

  Martin Niemoller

  Long, Thought Provoking, Enemy

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• In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

  Hans Kung

  Thought Provoking, Humanity, Lasts

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• Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

  Martin Luther

  Mother, Children, Father

  Martin Luther (1962). “The Christian in society”

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• Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.

  Francis Chan

  Mean, Thought Provoking, Failing

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.171, David C Cook

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• Some of you could be worshipping God but you're playing with a video game.

  Francis Chan

  Games, Thought Provoking, Video

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• We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

  Larry Page

  Data Collection, Thought Provoking, Sound

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• Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money, and energy they are willing to give.

  Francis Chan

  People, Giving, Thought Provoking

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.51, David C Cook

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• The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

  Doris Lessing

  Thought Provoking, Youth

  Doris Lessing (2010). “Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5”, p.453, Vintage

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• Why is it that we believe God's promises of blessing but not his promises of punishment?

  Francis Chan

  Believe, Blessing, Punishment

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• We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Our World, Moral Leadership, Thought Provoking

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• If you don't make a conscious choice... someone else will decide for you. It may be your boss, a family member, an advertiser, a collective social influence, or someone or something else, but it won't be something of your deliberate choosing.

  Steve Pavlina

  Thought Provoking, Choices, Boss

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• Saying no isn't easy, but it's a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes too often, you'll likely fall into the common trap of saying yes to the good while simultaneously saying no to the best.

  Steve Pavlina

  Fall, Skills, Thought Provoking

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• I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.

  Steve Pavlina

  Thought Provoking, May, Want

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• Intelligence and genius

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Thought Provoking, Genius

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• Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing.

  Michael Fassbender

  Break Up, Breakup, Character

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• News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to the leading news organizations in Buenos Aires, Boczkowski documents how contemporary journalism is caught in the grip of emulation; this spiral of imitation exacerbated further by global news media and their intensifying homogenization. The portrait of this transformation of the news is both fascinating and deeply worrying, and is guaranteed to provoke debate.

  Walter W. Powell

  Media, Organization, Worry

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• Jerusalem Maiden is a page-turning and thought-provoking novel. Extraordinary sensory detail vividly conjures another time and place; heroine Esther Kaminsky’s poignant struggle transcends time and place. The ultimate revelation here: for many women, if not most, 2011 is no different than 1911, but triumph is nonetheless possible.

  Binnie Kirshenbaum

  Struggle, Pages Turning, Thought Provoking

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• It's about time that we as Arabs take things into our own hands and figure out our own future, rather than [keep depending] on some outside force to do it for us... particularly when intervention by this outside force has not particularly been beneficial to the region in recent history.

  Marwan al-Muasher

  Hands, Thought Provoking, Figures

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• Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, Important, Cost

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