Thrive Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Building a business where everyone thrives

  Kip Tindell

  Building, Building A Business

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• Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

  Courtney Barnett

  Artist, People, Inspire

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

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• The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up a code of "No worries, mate," while peddling their oddities to visitors: nonconformity is at once a fact of life for many, and a selling point.

  Pico Iyer

  Oddities, Worry, World

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• Rich people don't have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially. I am not surprised many of them understand literature only as an ornament. Life is an ornament to them, relationships are ornaments, their “work” is but a flimsy, pretty ornament meant to momentarily thrill and capture attention. Why didn't I reread my F. Scott Fitzgerald sooner? I might have saved myself some time.

  Sergio Troncoso

  People, Life And Death, Scott Fitzgerald

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• A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.

  Erin Kelly

  Mother, Children, Your Mom

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• Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Enemy, Truth Is, Commerce

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4093, Library of Alexandria

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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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• I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.

  Pat McAfee

  Soccer, Football, Player

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Thinking, Want, Actresses

  "Love Among the Artists". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1900.

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