Settling Quotes - Page 34

• We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Country, Land, Race

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.34

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• Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beach, Loss, Self

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• Those who have no mental vigilance,
  Though they may hear the teachings, ponder them or meditate,
  With minds like water seeping from a leaking jug,
  Their learning will not settle in their memories.

  Shantideva

  Wisdom, Memories, Teaching

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• You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it... Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Believe, Heart

  Steve Jobs' Commencement Address at Stanford University, news.stanford.edu. June 14, 2005.

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• Never settle for average.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Average, Never Settle

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

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• To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.

  William Osler

  Trying, Care, Ability

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.254, Ravenio Books

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• Love what you do...Don't settle

  Steve Jobs

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• It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote, own property and have gained some simple freedoms that the battle for women's suffrage is over.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Simple, Thinking

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• When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and there's a television on, you can't take your eyes off the television. Paintings have that effect on me. It's where my eye settles.

  Joe Bradley

  Eye, Bars, Television

  Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2013.

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• There are only two possibilities. You are either going for your dreams or giving up your dreams. Stretching for what you could be or settling for what you are.

  Jeff Olson

  Dream, Giving Up, Two

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• The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Jesus, Father, Nice

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.776, Library of Alexandria

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• Close your mouth,
  block off your senses,
  blunt your sharpness,
  untie your knots,
  soften your glare,
  settle your dust.
  This is the primal identity.

  Laozi

  Block, Dust, Tao Te Ching

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• If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties and affairs. In this way, we accept a spiritual life by means of our moral and civic life; and there is no other way a spiritual life can be formed within us, no other way our spirits can be prepared for heaven. This is because living an inner life and not an outer life at the same time is like living in a house that has no foundation, that gradually either settles or develops gaping cracks or totters until it collapses.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Spiritual, Mean, Heaven

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2000). “Heaven and Hell”, Chrysalis Books

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• Settling for what is comfortable is one of the biggest enemies to our enlargement... In every season of life...we need to be committed to enlarging our personal capacity (even when it's not comfortable). We need to refuse to be satisfied with our latest accomplishments, as what we've accomplished is no longer our potential because it has been realized.

  Christine Caine

  Accomplishment, Enemy, Enlargement

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Dec 23, 2015

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• Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who'll settle for a rough draft written on a Pop-Tart and a coconut lotion handie.

  Geoffrey Hill

  Book, Dumb, Rough Drafts

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• Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky. Whate'er its mission, the soft breeze can come To none more grateful than to me; escaped From the vast city, where I long had pined A discontented sojourner: now free, Free as a bird to settle where I will.

  William Wordsworth

  Grateful, Blessing, Cities

  1799-1805 The Prelude, bk.1, l.1-9 (published 1850).

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• There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he "has read" them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that this settles the matter?

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Thinking, Matter

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and expecting so much from it, would not the tide ebb as strongly as it was flowing? It is a rash game this setting our hearts on any future beyond what we have our own selves control over. Things do not walk as we settle with ourselves they ought to walk, and to hope is almost the correlative of to be disappointed.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Self, Games

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.54

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• Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can do, yet all has been unavailing, and we have only shown we cannot, not we will not, help ourselves; that often just then something comes, almost as if supernaturally, to settle for us, as if our guardian angel took pity on our perplexities, and then at last obtained leave to help us? And if it be so, then what might only be a coincidence becomes a call of Providence, a voice from Heaven, a command.

  James Anthony Froude

  Angel, Thinking, Voice

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.37

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• It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition. This last act of our lives seldom belies the former tenor of them for stupidity, caprice, and unmeaning spite. All that we seem to think of is to manage matters so (in settling accounts with those who are so unmannerly as to survive us) as to do as little good, and to plague and disappoint as many people, as possible.

  William Hazlitt

  Exercise, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners". Book by William Hazlitt. Chapter: "On Will-Making", 1822.

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• As far as I can remember, I have always wanted everything from life, everything it can possibly give me. This desire separates me from people who are willing to settle for less. I cannot even comprehend how people's desires can be small, ambitions narrow and limited, when the possibilities are endless

  Deborah Feldman

  Ambition, People, Giving

  Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• You can show your daughter by the way you love and honor your wife that she should never settle for less.

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Daughter, Wife, Honor

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• It's actually quite common for presidents to believe that future generations will render a verdict on their presidencies that is more lasting or definitive than the judgments of their contemporaries. The reason is that although history is certainly "an argument without end" - we're still debating many age-old questions - time does help settle others.

  David Greenberg

  Believe, Age, President

  "Making Presidential History". Live chat, www.slate.com. August 9, 2007.

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• The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.

  Augustus John

  Buttons, Arriving, Failing

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• Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It's uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle...If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

  Seth Godin

  Ideas, People, Leader

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