Thrive Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• The diversity of India cannot thrive on facile attempts to create the homogeneous category of "Indian." Nor can it thrive on dubious attempts to gloss over xenophobic provincialism or a highly culpable state-sponsored marginalization of a minority community.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Diversity, Community, Dubious

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• New York was big enough and wide enough that it allowed for reasonably eccentric people like me to thrive. It was a perfect place for me.

  Robert Benton

  New York, People, Perfect

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• Girls who lead turn in to women who thrive.

  Anna Maria Chavez

  Girl, Turns

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• Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

  Max Lucado

  Relationship, Punishment, Guilt

  Twitter post from Feb 11, 2013

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• I think one of poetry's functions is not to give us what we want... The poet isn't always of use to the tribe. The tribe thrives on the consensual. The tribe is pulling together to face the intruder who threatens it. Meanwhile, the poet is sitting by himself in the graveyard talking to a skull.

  Heather McHugh

  Thinking, Skulls, Talking

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• That which the truth nourishes should thrive.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Should

  "Feeling Rational". lesswrong.com. April 26, 2007.

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• Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey - no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll pr a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you'll always be you.

  Arnold Arre

  Cat, Kids, Black And White

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• Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

  Orson Scott Card

  Technology, Identity, Body

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.552, Macmillan

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• Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Farewell, People, Competition

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• Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.

  John Dryden

  Freedom, Land, Sole

  'Threnodia Augustalis' (1685) st. 10

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• Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

  Camille Paglia

  Abortion, Fit, Casual

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• Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences

  Nikola Tesla

  Solitude, Originality, Influence

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• I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the ‘Normandy Invasion’ or ‘fall of the Berlin Wall’ of our generation...the Iraqi people are eager to be rid of Saddam, and there is equally encouraging evidence that republican principles could thrive there.

  Pete Hegseth

  Wall, Believe, Fall

  "Meet Kagan’s Astroturf Military Attackers" by Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. June 30, 2010.

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• I learned a long time ago that the last thing any woman should be thinking about is being 'skinny' or 'thin.' To me, those words imply weakness, fragility, the inability to stand firm in a storm. If you want to change your body, aim for 'athletic.' An athletic body is healthy, strong, and built to thrive. An athletic body can take many shapes.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Strong, Thinking, Long

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• To be loved is a privilege and prize equivalent to being born. If you're smart, you pause regularly to bask in the astonishing knowledge that there are many people out there who care for you and want you to thrive and hold you in their thoughts with fondness.

  Rob Brezsny

  Smart, People, Who Cares

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• Confidence breeds confidence and negativity breeds negativity. Treat those around you with respect and dignity and they will thrive.

  Richard Branson

  Negativity, Dignity, Treats

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Jan 28, 2015

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• Courtship is exciting and romantic because it thrives on the edge of disaster. It co-exists with the threat that, at any moment, it could fall apart and be lost forever.

  Karen Scalf Linamen

  Love, Dream, Fall

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• I thrive on being on the road, waking up in a different place every day and having my life revolve around music. When you walk out in front of 300,000 people and pull it off, it validates you.

  Sheryl Crow

  People, Different, Wake Up

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• Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle; and when they Grow above me and thrive on my body's element they will Breathe the fragrance of my heart into space.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Space, Myrtle

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• An organization's strategy is simply its plan for success. It's nothing more than the collection of intentional decisions a company makes to give itself the best chance to thrive and differentiate from competitors.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Organization, Giving, Decision

  "The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business". Book by Patrick Lencioni, 2012.

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