Stopping Quotes - Page 23

• Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

  Ralph Ellison

  Inspirational, Confidence, Power

  "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, Ch. 6, 1952.

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• When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Forgiveness, Peace

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• This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful.

  Charles Bukowski

  Essence, People, Mad

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• Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

  Tara Brach

  Beautiful, Offering, Somewhere Else

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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  Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

  Eminem

  Music, Rap, Keys

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• It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Journey, Ends

  Elisabeth Elliot (1976). “Twelve Baskets of Crumbs”

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• The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.

  Barack Obama

  Military, President, Doe

  "It's too easy for presidents to go to war" by Julian Zelizer, www.cnn.com. March 28, 2011.

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• The best way to stop Messi is when you play with 11 men and then you can double mark him, one player to stay on him and the other to help out. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him.

  Jose Mourinho

  Player, Men, Messi

  "Mourinho takes pressure off stars". www.cnn.com. March 6, 2006.

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• When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.

  Gary Zukav

  Pain, Threshold, Continuing

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Oct 28, 2014

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• Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Hate, Feet, People

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pnin”, p.25, Vintage

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