Superiors Quotes - Page 10

• [defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.

  Antonin Artaud

  Men, Ideas, Mad

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.485, Univ of California Press

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• Because feeling love does make you feel superior. Until you find out you aren't loved back.

  Kaui Hart Hemmings

  Feelings, Doe, Feels

  Kaui Hart Hemmings (2008). “The Descendants”, p.202, Random House

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• And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Stars, Distance, Unity

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Nature, Animal, People

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• You know, it's not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Men, Prove, Inferiors

  SIDNEY SHELDON (2016). “NOTHING LASTS FOREVER”, p.72, GR

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• They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.

  Anne Carson

  Eels, Two, Tanks

  Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

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• In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self Esteem, Humility, Eye

  Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.47, Penguin

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• I balled my hands into tight fists to keep them from wrapping around Mr. I-Know-Everything's superior neck.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Hands, Fists, Necks

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “Poison Study”, p.306, MIRA

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• It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

  Voltaire

  Triumph, Reason, Folks

  Voltaire (2015). “Socrates”, p.14, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

  Erik Satie

  Modesty, Notorious

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• Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Hands, Mind, Excellence

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• I was modest--they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil--nobody caressed me, everybody offended me: I became rancorous. I was gloomy--other children were merry and talkative. I felt myself superior to them--but was considered inferior: I became envious. I was ready to love the whole world--none understood me: and I learned to hate.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Children, Hate, Evil

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• If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there is a logic to natural things that is much superior to our own. Just as there is a dichotomy in law: 'innocent until proven guilty' as opposed to 'guilty until proven innocent', let me express my rule as follows: what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mother, Odds, Law

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.349, Random House

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• It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking About You, Knowing, People

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32)”, p.331, Random House

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• Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and filial duty which was to study, pass exams, use those qualifications to find a job, and then put together a way of life unthreateningly fuller than that of our parents, who would approve, while privately comparing it to their own earlier lives, which had been simpler, and therefore superior.

  Julian Barnes

  Fashion, Girlfriend, Jobs

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• We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious time exaggerating or romanticizing or belittling ourselves with a complacent surety that yes, that’s who we are. We mistake the openness of our being—the inherent wonder and surprise of each moment—for a solid, irrefutable self. Because of this misunderstanding, we suffer.

  Pema Chodron

  Mistake, Self, Suffering

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• We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Men

  Address on the 4th of July, delivered 4 July 1899, London, England

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• Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.

  Patrick Ness

  Numbers, Recipes, Unending

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• When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that disregard into a virtue. "We are too superior/busy/cool/not-uptight to bother about how we look to other people, and so we can wear pajamas to school and underwear to the mall.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  School, Self, People

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• There are many who subscribe to the convention that service is a business cost, but our data demonstrates that superior service is an investment that can help drive business growth. Investing in quality talent, and ensuring they have the skills, training and tools that enable them to empathize and actively listen to customers are central to providing consistently excellent service experiences.

  Jim Bush

  Educational, Data, Skills Training

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• It's very logical: There is proven ROI in doing whatever you can to turn your customers into advocates for your brand or business. The way to create advocates is to offer superior customer service.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Educational, Way, Roi

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• Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals.

  Jack Ramsay

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Society, Yoke

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.213, Routledge

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• What is Moral Courage? It is the ability to distinguish right from wrong and having so distinguished it, be prepared to say so,irrespective of the views held by your superiors or subordinates and of consequences to yourself.

  Sam Manekshaw

  Army, Views, Moral

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• One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of Jewry. For this reason alone it is vital that the Passion play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation of what happened in the times of the Romans. There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry.

  Adolf Hitler

  Passion, Fate, Rocks

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Table talk, 1941-1944”

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