Suggestions Quotes - Page 9

• Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Growth, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.69, Penguin

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• Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions.

  William Shakespeare

  Arms, Constant, Conquest

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1773). “The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected”, p.384

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• I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant -- to Radiate Life!

  Elbert Hubbard

  Uplifting, People, Giving

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• We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brothers winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.

  Ann Hood

  Girl, Mother, Brother

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• In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoretical calculations, and solid numbers based on measurement, is paramount. All the committees, the politicking and the plans would have come to naught if a few unpredictable nuclear cross sections had been different from what they are by a factor of two.

  Emilio G. Segre

  Ideas, Two, Differences

  Epigraph by Emilio G. Segre in Richard Rhodes' book "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" (p. 8), 1986.

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• Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Solitude, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.388

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• Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation.

  Chungliang Al Huang

  Wise, Appreciation, Teaching

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• ...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Motivational, Success, Leadership

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• Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Writing, Law

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• The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Stars, Moon

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• The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored people is one which, however it might be received in some other quarters, could not possibly be permitted by one who feels a responsibility for living up to the traditions and maintaining the principles of the Republican Party. Our Constitution guarantees equal rights to all our citizens, without discrimination on account of race or color. I have taken my oath to support that Constitution.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Taken, Party, Responsibility

  Letter to Charles F. Gardner, August 9, 1924.

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• A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.

  Mark Twain

  Attitude, War, Advice

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.1015, Library of America

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• I spend a long time casting, but once I've cast a film there's a reason why I selected those people. So I'm hands-on in selecting the cast, hands-off to see what they do with their characters, and hands-on again to offer suggestions.

  Alexander Payne

  Character, Hands, Long

  Source: deadline.com

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• Here's the problem with Common Core. The Department of Education, like every federal agency, will never be satisfied. They will not stop with it being a suggestion. They will turn it into a mandate.In fact, what they will begin to say to local communities is, you will not get federal money unless do you things the way we want you to do it. And they will use Common Core or any other requirements that exists nationally to force it down the throats of our people in our states.

  Marco Rubio

  Agency, People, Community

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The way Woody Allen directs, there isn't a lot of direction. He kind of might give a few gentle suggestions, but he really says right from the first day, "Just make it sound natural, and if you don't like something, put it in your own words." And [Woody Allen] gives you a lot of freedom and just very polite.

  Owen Wilson

  Giving, Sound, Might

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• The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been entertained by substantial numbers of persons over an extended period of time.

  Fred Hoyle

  Numbers, Might, Transformation

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• There is nothing that impairs a man's sexual performance quicker than any suggestion that he's not doing it right ('Not there, you idiot!').

  Helen Lawrenson

  Sex, Men, Idiot

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• Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer;
  Rarer is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret that clasps it rarer;
  Sweet the exultance of song, but the strain that precedes it is sweeter
  And never was poem yet writ, but the meaning outmastered the meter.

  Richard Realf

  Beauty, Song, Sweet

  Richard Realf, Richard Josiah Hinton (1893). “Poems”

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• Publicity is the only thing some people fear. An aroused public opinion has been the cause of most reforms. Telling the truth is perhaps the pacifist's only weapon. Over and over again, even the suggestion that one may publish the facts has changed a scornful, bullying opponent into an almost subservient helper. But how dangerous it is!

  Muriel Lester

  Bullying, People, Public Opinion

  Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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• Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Poetry, Infinite, Unlimited

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Outre Mer. Driftwood”

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• That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.

  Mara Wilson

  Fun, Kids, Choices

  "7 Reasons Child Stars Go Crazy (An Insider's Perspective)" by Mara Wilson, www.cracked.com. May 28, 2013.

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• I am always impressed by the fact that even the tiniest amount of being listened to, the barest suggestion of the possibility of kind treatment, can bring such an immediate rush of emotion. I think this is because we are almost never really listened to. In my work as a psychologist, I am reminded every day of how infrequently we are heard, any of us, or our actions even marginally understood. And one of the ironies of my "listening profession" is its lesson that, in many ways, each of us ultimately remains a mystery to everyone else.

  Martha Stout

  Thinking, Listening, Lessons

  Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.141, Harmony

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• It came to me more as a whisper of suggestion than the fundamental adage that it is - if this is not biblical, I shall always believe it should be - that all of us need someone who loves us enough to forgive us despite the history.

  Ivan Doig

  Believe, Biblical, Forgiving

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• Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Common Sense, Faces, Logic

  "Science And Religion: Incompatible?" by Kenneth R. Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2012.

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• One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts pitching bricks and rocks at the student union- just imagine they are wearing brown shirts or white sheets- and act accordingly.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Education, Rocks, White

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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