Thrive Quotes - Page 26

• The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

  Frank Herbert

  Purpose, Argument

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.68, Penguin

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• The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

  Michael Pollan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.73, Penguin

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• A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.

  Frank Herbert

  Sleep, New Experiences, Needs

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• The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.

  Frank Herbert

  Strong, Moving, Greatness

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.116, Penguin

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• Building a business where everyone thrives

  Kip Tindell

  Building, Building A Business

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• He could not stand. It was not That he could not thrive, he was born With everything but the will – That can be deformed, just like a limb. Death was more interesting to him. Life could not get his attention.

  Ted Hughes

  Interesting, Attention, Born

  Ted Hughes (1975). “Season songs”, Viking Pr

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• He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Secret, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.20, 谷月社

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• Love cannot thrive simply by being offered. Sooner or later it must be accepted and reciprocated. It must be seen for what it is and nourished according to its needs, or it will die.

  Cameron Dokey

  Needs, Accepted, Sooner Or Later

  Cameron Dokey (2009). “Winter's Child”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Problem, Oppression

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Church, Persecution, Martyrdom

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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• This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'

  Marissa Mayer

  Creativity, Thinking, People

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• Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.

  Ted Dekker

  Dungeons, Tables, Sin

  Ted Dekker (2008). “Dekker 2 in 1 (Obsessed & Three)”, p.305, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon – when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our problems to be solved, and solved quickly, by his presidency – the outcome is both predictable and tragic. That is not the way to engage social change in a democracy. And it is not the way to help democracy itself survive and thrive. Democracy is a non-stop experiment. Each generation must help sustain it, which means being in it day-by-day for the long haul.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Mean, Long, Vision

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• The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination.

  George Polya

  Hurt, Acceptance, Ideas

  George Pólya (1957). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus, in pulling Society down it pulls itself down. Its ultimate collapse is usually occasioned by a disastrous war, but preceding that event is a history of increasing and discouraging levies on the marketplace, causing a decline in the aspirations, hopes, and self-esteem of its victims.

  Frank Chodorov

  War, Self Esteem, Events

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Rise and Fall of Society”, p.150, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment.

  Richard Leakey

  Water, Needs, Layers

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• The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.

  Tarja Halonen

  Opportunity, Creative, Males

  Speech at The Opening Of The Women Of Learning Exhibition In Helsinki, www.helsinki.fi. August 5, 2000.

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• The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.

  Nick Hanauer

  Class, People, Helping

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• If business doesn't thrive, it hurts America. We need improved relations, more collaboration, more thought and more consistency as we go about trying to make sure we have the best country in the world. Not scapegoating and finger-pointing.

  Jamie Dimon

  Country, Hurt, America

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• I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability.

  David Neeleman

  Challenges, Add, Ability

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• There will always be some curve balls in your life. Teach your children to thrive in that adversity.

  Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

  Children, Adversity, Curves

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• Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil for the satisfactions men live by. That being so, the market place is a most humane institution.

  Frank Chodorov

  Men, Toil, Cost

  Frank Chodorov (1959). “The Rise & Fall of Society”, p.56, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo against criticizing bad ideas, and where everyone who shows up, in order to get their ideas entertained, has to meet some obvious burdens of intellectual rigor and self-criticism and honesty-and when people fail to do that, we are free to stop listening to them. What religion has had up until this moment is a different set of rules that apply only to it, which is you have to respect my religious certainty even though I'm telling you I arrived at it irrationally.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Honesty, Self

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• By an increase in anger, warfare arises. By an increase of greed, famine arises. By an increase of stupidity, pestilence arises. Because these three calamities occur, the people's earthly desires grow all the more intense, and their false views thrive and multiply.

  Nichiren

  Views, People, Stupidity

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• For small businesses to thrive, they require an environment that is conducive for growth.

  Nydia Velazquez

  Growth, Environment, Small Business

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