Staying Quotes - Page 29

• Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Empathy, Levels

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• If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.

  George Orwell

  Investing, Results, Feels

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• The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of two powerful deities, one called Persuasion and the other Compulsion.The Andrians had replied that Athens was lucky to have two such useful gods, who were obviously responsible for her wealth and greatness; unfortunately, they themselves, in their small & inadequate land, had two utterly useless deities, who refused to leave the island and insisted on staying; and their names were Poverty and Inability.

  Herodotus

  Powerful, Greatness, Land

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• My thing is just staying positive.  Find that thing you love doing and dedicate yourself to it.  You're going to have to sacrifice a lot of things if you want to achieve the goals you want to achieve.

  Derrick Rose

  Sacrifice, Goal, Stay Positive

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• The rules for reading yourself to sleep are easier to follow than are the rules for staying awake while reading. Get into bed in a comfortable position, make sure the light is inadequate enough to cause slight eyestrain, choose a book that is either terribly difficult or terribly boring-in any event, one that you do not really care whether you read or not-and you will be asleep in a few minutes. Those who are experts in relaxing with a book do not have to wait for nightfall. A comfortable chair in the library will do any time

  Mortimer Adler

  Book, Reading, Sleep

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.

  J. I. Packer

  Moving, Technology, Next

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• I don't have a crazy rider clause saying I have to stay at fancy hotels. I don't have a problem with staying at a Marriott. But I will admit that I've gotten just basic, regular service there.

  Mark Ronson

  Crazy, Fancy, Problem

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• Action can only be understood in relation to place; only by staying in place can the imagination conceive or understand action in terms of consequence, of cause and effect. The meaning of action in time is inseparable from its meaning in place.

  Wendell Berry

  Imagination, Causes, Action

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words: Essays”, p.88, Counterpoint Press

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• A woman's place is in the home. Why should she go out and take away a workingman's pay instead of staying home and stealing out of his jacket like a good wife.

  Sam Levenson

  Sex, Home, Wife

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• I may sound like a megalomaniac, but I feel like I'm equipped to become a great, memorable comedian, if I keep working my ass off and staying at the pace I'm at, and I feel a responsibility to do that because of the women who have done it before me, and the ones who need to do it after me.

  Amy Schumer

  Memorable, Responsibility, Comedian

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2012.

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• The wrestling, even though I would only wrestle for 15 or 20 or 30 minutes at a time, and it would look like that was the only time I was in it, was really a 24-hour job. Keeping yourself alive, reinventing yourself, staying physically in shape, the traveling, all the other commitments with being a wrestler, it was a crossover situation where it became sports entertainment and you actually became a media star, so it was very demanding.

  Laila Ali

  Sports, Jobs, Stars

  Source: movieweb.com

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• The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough. Trying to make it through by staying hard and phallocentric. To me, that is just an impoverished conception of what it is to be a black male. It doesn't do justice to my grandfather, my father, my brother - or just the black men I grew up with.

  Cornel West

  Brother, Father, Men

  "A conversation with Cornel West". Interview with Itabari Njeri, articles.latimes.com. October 22, 1995.

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• When you're shooting that fast end to end, you wake up in a hotel and you don't know where you are. You're dreaming of Singapore, you wake up in Hong Kong. Or you just lose track. It's one of the reasons I'm staying in hotels that I know I've stayed in before, and they don't look like other hotels.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dream, Track, Looks

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2011.

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• In the 80s I started running, staying in shape.

  Jerry Jeff Walker

  Running, Shapes, 80s

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• As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of their leadership.

  Robert Dallek

  Views, Accomplishment, President

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• Breakthrough ideas look crazy, nuts. It’s hard to think this way — I see it in other people’s body language, and I can feel it in my own, where I sometimes feel like I don’t even care if it’s going to work, I can’t take more change. O.K., Google, O.K., Twitter—but Airbnb? People staying in each other’s houses without there being a lot of axe murders?

  Marc Andreessen

  Crazy, Thinking, Nuts

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• I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  Summer, Adventure, Portland Oregon

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• The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New York. I went to Clinique and bought the three-step acne programme and felt so grown-up.

  Trinny Woodall

  New York, Godmother, Three

  "My life in shopping: Trinny Woodall". Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2008.

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• I think a lot of people start out full of idealism and fresh ideas. And then a lot of times, being re-elected becomes more important than staying true to your principles.

  Matt Salmon

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible.

  Sarah Schulman

  Long, People, Accountability

  Sarah Schulman (2012). “The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination”, p.52, Univ of California Press

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• We definitely aren't very good at staying in one place. There's not a domesticated bone in my body.

  Brent Smith

  Body, Bones, Very Good

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• The solution to staying on the right side of the fine line between using and abusing grace is repentance. The road to repentance is godly sorrow (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow is developed when we focus on the true nature of sin as an offense against God rather than something that makes us feel guilty.

  Jerry Bridges

  Godly, Focus, Grace

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• The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.

  Conor McPherson

  Real, Men, Leaving

  "So there's these three Irishmen". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.

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• It's not a query of staying wholesome. It's a query of discovering a illness you want.

  Jackie Mason

  Want, Illness, Queries

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• When you love food as much as I do, staying healthy is not easy. I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living. I always want more and that's just my life.

  Carnie Wilson

  Mean, Healthy, Want

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