Thrive Quotes - Page 12

• I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.

  Og Mandino

  Men, Laughing, Laugh At Yourself

  "The Greatest Salesman in the World".

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• Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Perception, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.234

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• So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Cells, Blood, Years

  "Q&A: Kurzweil on tech as a double-edged sword". Interview with Natasha Lomas, www.cnet.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

  Rumi

  Kings, Shadow, Sun

  "Masnavi I Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí". Book edited by Edward Henry Whinfield. Book IV, Story IV: "Bayazid and his impious sayings when beside himself", 1898.

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• Heartsick, heartbroken - to know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular that with it we probe the divine.

  Rumi

  Heartbroken, Pain, Love Is

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• Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Struggle, Home

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.

  Neil Gaiman

  Football, Dream, Father

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 19, 2001.

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• He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made me thrive, and valuing that, I could do nothing that would endanger it.

  Susan Vreeland

  Bridges, Passionate, Flesh

  Susan Vreeland (2011). “Clara and Mr. Tiffany: A Novel”, p.226, Random House

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• They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live.

  Suzanne Collins

  Brain, Form, Code

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.92, Scholastic Inc.

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• So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

  Arthur Eddington

  Arrows, Physics, Entropy

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “The Nature of the Physical World: Gifford Lectures (1927)”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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• It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the most fun that you can have out of bed . . . to learn that the smart man finds ways to make everything he does be work; to learn that "leisure" time is truly pleasurable (indeed tolerable) only to the extent that is its subconscious grazing for information with which to infuse newer, better work.

  Spider Robinson

  Fun, Smart, Hard Work

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• To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to have strengthened one's essential position [in life].

  Sven Birkerts

  Blow, Self, Focus

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• If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Joy, Suffering, Chance

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.

  William Gibson

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• Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive".

  Hope Mirrlees

  Pain, Heart, Pride

  Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.125, F+W Media, Inc.

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• It would be interesting if this sitcom works, so I could be doing one thing all the time instead of going back and forth between all this different media which I sort of thrive on, I'm a bit of a moving target in that way.

  Stockard Channing

  Moving, Media, Interesting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Wind, Rivers

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [401]

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• My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Mean, Intuition, Needs

  Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2010.

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• The hurt you embrace becomes joy.

  Rumi

  Hurt, Joy, Embrace

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• A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. They must be the most important thing in her life, but if she is the most important thing in theirs, she has failed.

  Erin Kelly

  Mother, Children, Important

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• It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Loss, Ideas, Information

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• Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

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• Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

  Thucydides

  Ignorance, Religion, Atheism

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• Bullies thrive wherever authority is weak

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Weak, Being Bullied

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• I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy. The civil rights movement thrives on unity and inclusion, not division and exclusion. My husband's struggle parallels that of the gay rights movement.

  Coretta Scott King

  Husband, Attitude, Believe

  Chicago Sun Times, April 1, 1998.

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