Three Ways Quotes

• Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

  Mortimer Adler

  Men, Three, Way

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• Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Simple, Nba

  "Phil Jackson talks Lakers, his future, Dwight Howard, more". Interview with Jack McCallum, www.si.com. February 19, 2013.

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• We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Confidence, Three, Lamps

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do

  William James

  Inspiration, Exercise, Two

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• This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder the many. (2) Everybody plunders everybody. (3) Nobody plunders anybody.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Liberty, Three, Way

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Differences, Wish, Three

  Mary Parker Follett (1957). “Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett”

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• When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Population, Three, World

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 5, as translated by Ninian Hill Thomson, 1517.

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• There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Cheating, Real

  Benjamin Franklin (1819). “Memoirs of the life and writings of B.F. ...”, p.60

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• There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying.

  George S. Patton

  Men, Want, Way

  "The True Story of The Patton Prayer" by James H. O'Neill. Review of the News, www.pattonhq.com. October 06, 1971.

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• I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily things. On most writers, the earmarks of thrift, if not outright povery, are evident.

  Joyce Thompson

  Dumb, Way, Three

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• There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Wine, Two, Church

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• In any new situation, whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship, you will almost certainly be viewed in one of three ways. As a minus one: actively harmful, someone who creates problems. Or as a zero: your impact is neutral and doesn't tip the balance one way or the other. Or you'll be seen as a plus one: someone who actively adds value. Everyone wants to be a plus one, of course. But proclaiming your plus-oneness at the outset almost guarantees you'll be perceived as a minus one, regardless of the skills you bring to the table or how you actually perform.

  Chris Hadfield

  Zero, Impact, Skills

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• There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, War, Eugenics

  Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.117, Routledge

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• Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Humility, Baptism

  "Treatises on Marriage and Other Subjects".

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• I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.

  Halle Berry

  Night, Bed, Three

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• When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

  Walter Isaacson

  Kindness, Thinking, Trying

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• Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

  Pope John XXIII

  Funny, Humorous, Gambling

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• Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Christian, Strong, Three

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.597, Penguin

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• Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Cousin, Real, Like Love

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.84, Macmillan

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• There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food...If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Giving Up, Two

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• There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.

  Fred Rogers

  Life, Success, Thank You

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• There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

  Georges Pompidou

  Men, Gambling, Listening

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• Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Religious, Jesus, Sex

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• All of life presents itself as a cycle of cause and effect. When this cycle is negative, there are three ways to change. You can change the cause, change the effect, or choose the most powerful option become the cause!

  Bill Crawford

  Powerful, Negative, Three

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• Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Man's Search for Meaning, wrote that human beings create meaning in three ways: thought their work, though their relationships, and by how they choose to meet unavoidable suffering. Every life brings hardship and trial, and every life also offers deep possibilities for meaningful work and love... I've learned that courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin.

  Eric Greitens

  Meaningful, Men, Compassion

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