Rely Quotes - Page 7

• You can't rely on the approval of others. I used to always look for praise from my directors to reassure myself that I was doing a good job. I don't do that anymore.

  Jacob Vargas

  Jobs, Approval Of Others, Directors

  "Jacob Vargas from Sons of Anarchy: Making the Most of Pain, Chaos, and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Government mandates, incidentally, are likely to distort rather than solve the problem of finding a market. I would, therefore, force my organization to live by its wits rather than to rely on capricious subsidies or non-economic-based regulation to fuel my business.

  Clayton Christensen

  Government, Organization, Fuel

  Clayton Christensen (2013). “The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail”, p.210, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Do not grow overconfident following a few victories. Should you not rely upon the Holy Spirit you will soon be thrown once more into a distressing experience. With holy diligence you must cultivate an attitude of dependency.

  Watchman Nee

  Attitude, Rely Upon, Victory

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.204, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.

  Watchman Nee

  Rely Upon, Depth, Way

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.84, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Men

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• President Obama said that we rely too much on gadgets. He gave a passionate speech about technology, but he had to stop when the teleprompter broke.

  Craig Ferguson

  Technology, President, Passionate

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• If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.

  Bill Gates

  Country, People, Brain

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• To make music I rely on other people, which is good - that's the main difference in painting and music at this stage. They are separate parts of my life really, like having two jobs, one in a bar, one in a lighthouse.

  Danny Fox

  Jobs, Two, Differences

  "Wild Horses, William Burroughs And White Cake With Danny Fox". Interview With Christiana Spens, thequietus.com. September 22, 2013.

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• Some people do rely too much on technology. Look, technology is wonderful and I love it. When I was in the UK and I had hit records I would also have a high tax bill at the end of the year, and that would be the time to buy up all the technology - it was write offs.

  Tony Visconti

  Writing, Technology, Years

  "Sound & Vision: Tony Visconti". Interview with Allyson Mccabe, therumpus.net. January 4, 2016.

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• If you created a place in air where they're breathing and running around in, and then they speak in that fictional milieu, it's perfectly authenticated because the whole world relies on you, who've made it possible.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Running, Air, Breathing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I never felt like I had a surface image to rely on that people would like - I always felt like my music would not be very fancy music, my voice is not very fancy, there is nothing hiding me from the audience.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Voice, People, Fancy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The question is not about whether it will work or not. It's how quickly we can pull it off. Structural change will happen. When economies grow, there comes a time when you cannot rely on investment alone. We had that. The return on investment is becoming less and less. So we have to change. The old model doesn't work anymore. It's a question of speed.

  Zhang Xin

  Return, Becoming, Speed

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think that technology is much more mysterious to the people using it than, say, the automobile was. This isn't an original observation, but a lot of the smart devices people rely on now really do feel like magic to a lot of us.

  Charlie Jane Anders

  Smart, Technology, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You obviously have your routines that you rely on, then you go out and play and have fun. For us in basketball, we have a seven-game series, so you have time to adjust if you need to. It's a fun experience to go through, and one that I'll remember for a long time.

  Stephen Curry

  Basketball, Fun, Games

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The revolution will survive. It does not rely solely on oil for its survival. There is a national will, there is a national idea, a national project.

  Hugo Chavez

  Ideas, Oil, Survival

  Source: progressive.org

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• The FBI was creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Apples, Creating

  Source: www.bbc.com

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• I can't say that there's a common practice that has to do with pitch language or with the way pieces are put together because today, anything is fair game. As far as I'm concerned, my own common practice is a piece that engages the attention of listeners from beginning to end, and doesn't rely on or expect the listener to zone out.

  Paul Lansky

  Practice, Games, Together

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything to catch onto, that's great.

  Alexis Taylor

  Sound, Melody, Stills

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

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• I finally stopped complaining about 'Why isn't everybody else making me what I want to be?' You can't rely solely on your agent or your managers to educate people as to who you are.

  Laura Benanti

  People, Complaining, Agents

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• [Barack] Obama, he`ll be out of office soon and, frankly,[Donald] Trump relies on him .

  Chuck Todd

  Office, Trump, Barack

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive.

  Colin Meloy

  Thinking, Order, Mainstream Culture

  "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

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• Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

  Jimenez Lai

  Art, Acceptance, Vocabulary

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Once the reality sets in of a superhuman intelligence being in control of every aspect of the infrastructures we rely upon for everyday life, we will simply have to try to come to an accommodation with that entity.

  John L. Casti

  Reality, Rely Upon, Everyday

  "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

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• I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.

  Sandra Bullock

  "Sandra Bullock, Boxed In On The Set Of 'Gravity'". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. October 4, 2013.

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• It sometimes becomes difficult to tell when you're even creating a buzz. You know, everything in this game, it so relies on timing that that part is really important, and it's something that everyone tries to pay a lot of attention to.

  Joe Budden

  Games, Creating, Trying

  Source: djbooth.net

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