Settling Quotes - Page 19

• Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative activity, change; it is essential for continuous development.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Art, Creative, Inspire

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• A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Money, Accountability, Debt

  Joseph Fort Newton (1937). “Living Every Day: A Book of Faith, Philosophy, and Fun,”

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• Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had to discover new ways of dealing with the past. In this he became a master when he discovered that the transmissibility of the past had been replaced by the citability and that in place of its authority there had arisen a strange power to settle down, piecemeal, in the present and to deprive it of ‘peace of mind,’ the mindless peace of complacency.

  Hannah Arendt

  Loss, Past, Mind

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• Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Issues, Never Settle

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.27, Penguin

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• No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down in the cinema and this white shining point opens up for us, our gaze stops flitting hither and thither, settles and becomes quite steady. We just sit there, letting the images flow out over us. Our will ceases to function. We lose our ability to sort things out and fix them in their proper places. We're drawn into a course of events–we're participants in a dream. And manufacturing dreams, that's a juicy business.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Art, White

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• The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.

  Tony Blair

  Order, Nwo, Pieces

  Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001

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• In comedy laughter settles all arguments.

  Robert McKee

  Laughter, Comedy, Argument

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• In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve high levels of success in some areas of life tend to take a LOT more action than those who settle for average or below average results.

  Steve Pavlina

  Strong, Reading, Successful

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• We must never settle for harmony at the expense of holiness, nor for peace at the expense of principle.

  John Bradford

  Christian, Never Settle, Holiness

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• Be awesome. Live life to the fullest. Shoot for the stars and never settle.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Stars, Live Life

  Jillian Michaels (2013). “Slim for Life: My Insider Secrets to Simple, Fast, and Lasting Weight Loss”, p.3, Harmony

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• Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Land, Identity

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• Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.

  Confucius

  Beautiful, Wise, Men

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• The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

  Paolo Giordano

  Love, Return, Surface

  Paolo Giordano (2009). “The Solitude of Prime Numbers”, p.313, Random House

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• I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

  Claude Monet

  Ideas, Brain, Incubation

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• It is a good idea to 'shop around' before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be shy! After all, you're paying for it.

  Dave Barry

  Doctors, Ideas, Cynical

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.9, Rodale

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• A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with it. When we smash the Arab Legion's strength and bomb Amman, we will eliminate Transjordan too, and then Syria will fall. If Egypt still dares to fight on, we shall bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Christian, Fashion, War

  "The 1982 invasion of Lebanon". International Socialist Review, Issue 50, www.isreview.org. November–December 2006.

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• This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a better camera to buy and new software to download. The user never has time to become comfortable with the tool. Consequently too much of the work is merely about the technology. The HDR and QTVR fads are good examples. Instead of focusing on the subject, users obsess over RAW conversion, Photoshop plug-ins, and on and on. For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

  Alec Soth

  Photography, Technology, Typewriters

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• We should always settle disputes through dialogue and cooperation, and should not resort to the use or threat of force on the slightest provocation. We should get rid of Cold War thinking and broaden the converging points of our common interests, notwithstanding the differences in social systems and ideologies.

  Wu Bangguo

  War, Thinking, Differences

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• When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.

  Wilfred Funk

  War, Failing, Disputes

  Wilfred Funk (1974). “Words of Power”

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• The only way we can determine the true age of the earth is for God to tell us what it is. And since He has told us, very plainly, in the Holy Scriptures that it is several thousand years in age, and no more, that ought to settle all basic questions of terrestrial chronology.

  Henry M. Morris

  Stupid, Years, Scary

  "The Remarkable Birth of Planet Earth". Book by Henry M. Morris, p. 94, 1972.

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• Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Math, Hip Hop

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• With all this extra stressin
  The question I wonder is after death, after my last breath
  When will I finaly get to rest? Through this supression
  they punish the people that's askin questions
  And those that possess, steal from the ones without possesions
  The message I stress: to make it stop study your lessons
  Don't settle for less - even the genius asks-es questions
  Be grateful for blessings
  Don't ever change, keep your essence
  The power is in the people and politics we address.

  Tupac Shakur

  Stress, Grateful, Blessing

  Song: Me Against The World

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• We do not seek the unanimity that comes to those who water down all issues to the lowest common denominator - or to those who conceal their differences behind fixed smiles - or to those who measure unity by standards of popularity and affection, instead of trust and respect. We are allies. This is a partnership, not an empire. We are bound to have differences and disappointments - and we are equally bound to bring them out into the open, to settle them where they can be settled, and to respect each other's views when they cannot be settled.

  John F. Kennedy

  Disappointment, Differences, Issues

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• There are certain things we can only do together. There are certain things only a union can do. Only a union could harness the courage of our pioneers to settle the American west, which is why President Abraham Lincoln passed a Homestead Act giving a tract of land to anyone seeking a stake in our growing economy.

  Barack Obama

  Land, American West, Giving

  "Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull", www.cnn.com. February 12, 2009.

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• Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment became ever more compelling as Berkshire's capital mushroomed and the universe of investments that could significantly affect our results shrank dramatically. Therefore, we adopted a strategy that required our being smart and not too smart at that, only a very few times. Indeed, we now settle for one good idea a year.

  Warren Buffett

  Mistake, Smart, Long Ago

  Financial Review, 1985.

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