Thrive Quotes - Page 33

• True universalists are not those who preach global tolerance of differences and all-encompassing unity, but those who engage in a passionate struggle for the assertion of the Truth which compels them.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Struggle, Differences, Tolerance

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• The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

  Karen Kain

  Art, Importance, Wells

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• Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.

  Trevor Dunn

  Band

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• When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

  Steven Johnson

  Innovation, Permission, Asks

  Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.131, Penguin

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• Mainly, my job is to be on the outside and bring ideas into the company and forge change. Most people hate change—it’s threatening. I thrive on it.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Jobs, Hate, Ideas

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• I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.

  Richard Marx

  Adversity, Thinking

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• Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and transparency and openness to others becomes essential to the new way of conducting business, empathic sensibility has room to breathe and thrive. It is no longer so constrained by hierarchies, boundaries of exclusion, and a concept of human nature that places acquisitiveness, self-interest, and utility at the center of the human experience."

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Self, Competition, Hierarchy

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• Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.

  Osamu Tezuka

  Ignorance, Sickness

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• Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.

  Violet Trefusis

  Thinking, Indifference, Genuine

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• I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

  Plato

  Children, Words Of Wisdom, May

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• I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive
  I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise
  To fly.

  Nicki Minaj

  Fighting, Winning, Flying

  Song: Fly I Believe I Can Fly, Album: Pink Friday

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• If we are not free, no one will respect us.

  Abdul Kalam

  Respect, Ifs

  "A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: The Visionary of India" by G. Katyal and K. Bhushan, (p. 39), 2002.

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• Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

  Aldous Huxley

  Looks, Innocence, Improbable

  "Island".

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• Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

  Alvin Toffler

  Sovereign, Fiction, Shock

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• There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

  Aristotle

  Would Be, Imagine, Slave

  Aristotle (1963). “The Politics of Aristotle”

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• If you live in a democracy and don't have freedom of information, it's not a democracy. And people have to understand that if you don't have freedom of information online, it's not going to be offline, either.

  Birgitta Jonsdottir

  People, Democracy, Information

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• The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.

  Brian Eno

  Computer, Problem, Enough

  "Gossip is Philosophy". Interview with Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. May 1, 1995.

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• Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

  Gautama Buddha

  Judging, People, Assumption

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• We are a way of the universe knowing itself.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowing, Way, Universe

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• I want every business to compete and thrive.

  Hillary Clinton

  Want

  Source: time.com

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• The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the universe, as measured by the complexity and permanence of organized structures, also increases steadily over time.

  Freeman Dyson

  Order, Structure, Increase

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• Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

  George Orwell

  Reality, Bumps, Belief

  After World War II; quoted in the London Financial Times, 13 May 2003.

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• Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Law, Public Opinion

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.305, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How many examples do we have of these bodies [of the state] set up to eliminate a problem, actually eliminating it, shutting down their operations and going home?

  Greg Sams

  Home, Shutting Down, Body

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• Anarchy doesn't mean out of control; it means out of their control.

  Jim Dodge

  Mean, Anarchy

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