Provoking Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Are you one of those people who notices the problems of the world and says ... somebody ought to do something about that? Why not you? If you feel a strong urge to see a problem fixed, then why not act on it?

  Steve Pavlina

  Strong, People, Thought Provoking

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• The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge this reality, that the national states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated.

  Evo Morales

  Health, Reality, Worst Enemy

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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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• As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I.

  Celia Thaxter

  Friendship, Laughter, Flower

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.92, Applewood Books

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• To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Giving Up, Pain, Love You

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• Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

  Edward Hirsch

  Art, Source, Process

  Edward Hirsch (2014). “A Poet's Glossary”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Jobs, Hate, Goal

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• Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, Important, Cost

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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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• A political solution is going to involve neighboring countries... You will have to bring people together to agree on a political process. If that includes supporting a military exercise of some sort without sending troops, that is on the table, as long as this is not the only option that people look at.

  Marwan al-Muasher

  Country, Military, Exercise

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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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• 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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• More and more countries of the world have decided that corporations do a better job of generating and deploying capital than do states.

  Max L. Stackhouse

  Country, Jobs, Countries Of The World

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• If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. -

  Epictetus

  Irritated, Remember, Judgment

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• Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.

  Ben Hunt

  Beautiful, Art, Communication

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• Adieu, Lord Dain,” she answered without turning her head. “Have a pleasant evening with your cows.” Cows? She was merely trying to provoke him, Dain told himself. The remark was a pathetic attempt at a setdown. To take offense was to admit he’d felt the sting. He told himself to laugh and return to his… cows.

  Loretta Chase

  Laughing, Trying, Cows

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• If something comes at me of course I'm gonna handle my business but I'm not the type to provoke the bullshit so I don't really get a lot of that.

  Rakim

  Bullshit, Type, Handle

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• For those interested in Reformed thought more broadly, I'd recommend Peter Leithart's recent book on Reformed Catholicism entitled, The End of Protestantism: Pursuing Unity in a Fragmented Church (Brazos Press, 2016), as a thought-provoking and stimulating read that should get us all thinking about the future shape of the Church, wherever we come from.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Book, Thinking, Thought Provoking

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.

  Chris Lilley

  People, Guy, Black

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.

  Joan Miro

  Fall, Drawing, Color

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• I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a ritualized behaviour: they simplify or formalize, repeat (sometimes with variation), exaggerate, and elaborate in both space and time for the purpose of attracting attention and provoking and manipulating emotional response.

  Ellen Dissanayake

  Art, Emotional, Media

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• Inequality provokes a generalized anger that finds targets where it can--immigrants, foreign countries, American elites, government in all forms--and it rewards demagogues while discrediting reformers.

  George Packer

  Country, Government, Class

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• 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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