Thrive Quotes - Page 20

• The Church is the dwelling place of God in the Person of the Holy Ghost.
  Where the Church thrives, people are blessed and progress is evident. Where there is no Church, people feed their babies to crocodiles and roam naked in the jungles.

  Oliver B. Greene

  Christian, Baby, Blessed

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• The Internet is fast becoming a cesspool where false information thrives.

  Eric Schmidt

  Information, Becoming, Internet

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• Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, Mean, Government

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• Who but a physicist, in the research lab or the corporation, could mix and match multiple ideas, models, technologies from different disciplines and thrive on change and new ideas...?

  Robert Gibbs

  Technology, Ideas, Discipline

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• The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Christian, Wise, Growing Up

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• My dad's always been a famous actor, so I've grown up with that, and with the lifestyle. In a way, I think I thrive on the insecurity that comes with it. Not in my private life - I like to believe that my friendships and my relationships are strong.

  Alice Eve

  Strong, Dad, Believe

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• Amory Lovins says the primary design criteria he uses is the question How do we love all the children? Not just our children, not just the ones who look like us or who have resources, not just the human children but the young of birds and salmon and redwood trees. When we love all the children, when that love is truly sacred to us in the sense of being most important, then we have to take action in the world to enact that love. We are called to make the earth a place where all the children can thrive.

  Starhawk

  Children, Love Is, Design

  Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• ...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not strangers: our hands moved towards each other to embrace. I never heard his voice, for we did not speak; it is a shame, I should so like the memory of it. Loneliness, like fever, thrives on night, but there with him light broke, breaking in the trees like birdsong, and when sunrise came, he loosened his fingers from mine, and walked away, that misty boy, my friend.

  Truman Capote

  Memories, Loneliness, Night

  Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Ray Bradbury, James Baldwin, James Purdy (1962). “Some postwar American writers”

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• Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?

  Robert Genn

  Competition, Suffering, Who Cares

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• People thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are - and connecting that to work that they truly love .

  Po Bronson

  Work, People, Connecting

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• One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Expression, Order

  Howard Zinn (2001). “Howard Zinn on War”, p.171, Seven Stories Press

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• Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Mean, Civilization, Goal

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• The further a device is removed from human control, the more authentically mechanical it seems, and the whole trend in technology has been to devise machines that are less and less under direct human control and more and more under their own apparent will.

  Isaac Asimov

  Technology, Hands, Independence

  "Past, Present, and Future".

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• Instead of being a student of a (given) field, I would like you to be the field.

  Jacob Barnett

  Fields, Students, Like You

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• Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding, loveless doctrine is taught that animals have no rights that we are bound to respect, and were only made for man, to be petted, spoiled, slaughtered or enslaved.

  John Muir

  Teaching, School, Mean

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.56, Library of America

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• Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth.

  John H. Lienhard

  Errors, Years, Hundred

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• Are we being good ancestors?

  Jonas Salk

  Be Good, Ancestor

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• He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Taoism, Dozing

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”

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• The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Way, Action, Obstacles

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.162, Modern Library

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• Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Stoicism, Feels, Havens

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.39, Modern Library

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• An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.

  Martin Rees

  Stars, Challenges, Insects

  "Our Cosmic Patch". Interview with Helen Matsos, www.astrobio.net. January 3, 2005.

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• To say that humans are composed of machines is not to say that we are merely machines. Humans are dignified machines. We are (so far) the most extropic, most complex product of billions of years of evolution.

  Max More

  Years, Machines, Evolution

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• You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Needs, Becoming, Slave

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.26, Random House

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• A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Mean, Government

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.33, Race Point Publishing

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• When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.

  Nikola Tesla

  Real, Distance, Smartphones

  "When woman is boss". "Colliers" Magazine, January 30, 1926.

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