Provoking Quotes - Page 7

• Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Mean, Thought Provoking, Ordinary

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• When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Opportunity, Broken, Thought Provoking

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• Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  People, Thought Provoking, Dollars

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• People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  People, Thought Provoking, Decision

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• This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.

  Henry Ford

  Motivational, Thought Provoking, Pay

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• When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Compassion, People

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• If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won't be remembered the same way.

  Avicii

  Song, People, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition...The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

  Lord Acton

  Mean, Men, Class

  "The History of Freedom in Antiquity". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1907.

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• The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Peculiar, Emotion

  Clive Bell (1987). “Art”

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• We know that an object that is not consciously noticed at the time of a first visit can, by its absence during subsequent visits, provoke an indefinable impression: as a result of this sighting backward in time, the absence of the object becomes a presence one can feel.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Firsts, Absence, Results

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.9, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome.

  Catherine Crier

  Outcomes, Hearing, Despicable

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• Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche has a remarkable ability to present the wisdom of the Buddha's teachings in a manner that is as fresh and accessible as it is profound. With Rebel Buddha, he goes straight to the core of the spiritual path, showing how the Buddha's liberating insights transcend race, religion, and culture. This book is sure to provoke, inspire, and move us one step closer to creating a thoroughly modern approach to spirituality.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Moving, Book

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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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• 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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• 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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• Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust provoking attire, ridiculous love pranks, all which savor only of sensuality, of raging fleshly lusts. Therefore, it is wholly to be abandoned of all good Christians.

  William Prynne

  Christian, Song, Kissing

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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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• Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

  Brad Bird

  Thought Provoking, Levels, Looks

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• I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden passages that are in it for his own benefit, that they may return with him when the owner shall call for the book again: but in case this excellent book shall be thrown into a corner and no use made of it, it justly provokes the owner to take it away in displeasure. --Funeral of John Upton, Esq

  John Flavel

  Book, Men, Funeral

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• There was an op-ed piece in The New York Times by an evolutionary biologist or somebody - which was a curious place for the opinion to come from - and he said that there's no such thing as a completely free, uncensored medium, that people censor themselves all the time, in deference to hurting other people's feelings, or offending other groups, or in their own, not to provoke a fight. And you do self-censor certain things, and it's not necessarily a bad thing. That's just the way human social interaction works.

  David Byrne

  Hurt, Fighting, People

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• Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hate, Crazy, Anger

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The forces, movements, and energies that today we call religious, spiritual, or faith-based have related through the ages in diverse ways to the spheres of life that today we call economic and that we see embodied in business and commerce.

  Martin E. Marty

  Spiritual, Religious, Challenges

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• There is a continuum that runs from character to productivity. Who you are and what you believe make a difference to those who look to you for leadership. The values you live will reach the bottom line of your company.

  Walter Wright

  Running, Believe, Character

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• Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Character, Challenges

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