Thrive Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• 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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• When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is then made good, a good one excellent, an excellent one extraordinary.

  Vivian Gornick

  Mind, Cafes, Adequate

  Vivian Gornick (1996). “Approaching Eye Level”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• You know what I've seen? Is that people who have gone through unfair, horrific experiences, is that they have this will, and when they get support, a chance, they can not only survive, they can thrive.

  Olivia

  People, Support, Gone

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• Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations.

  Emma Donoghue

  Children, Writing, Thinking

  "Emma Donoghue Chats About 'Room'". The New Yorker Chat, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 2011.

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• In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.

  Julia Cameron

  Artist, Order, Joy

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.150, Souvenir Press

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• Elegance thrives on exclusion.

  Mason Cooley

  Exclusion, Elegance

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• Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not accepted until this century. Yet today, fueled by the federal government's misdirected war on drugs, radical environmentalism, and the aggressive behavior of the nanny state, we have witnessed the massive buildup of a virtual army of armed regulators prowling the States where they have no legal authority. The sacrifice of individual responsibility and the concept of local government by the majority of American citizens has permitted the army of bureaucrats to thrive.

  Ron Paul

  War, Responsibility, Army

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• Who you are and what you know when you are born is everything that you need to know to thrive. You are born with a sense of self and a sense of wanting self to feel good and the mechanisms to bring it about.

  Esther Hicks

  Knowledge, Self, Feel Good

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• The best you can do for anyone is to thrive fully and be willing to explain to anyone who asks how it is that you are thriving, and what it is that you've discovered - and then, just relax and trust that all truly is well.

  Esther Hicks

  Peace, Relax, Wells

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• For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they go for nothing; are of no use in the farm, in the forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, War, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.94, 谷月社

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• Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

  Nelson Mandela

  Blood, Lust, Sides

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• While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Art, Dark, Tragedy

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• Now all the youth of England are on fire,
  And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies;
  Now thrive the armorers, and honor's thought
  Reigns solely in the breast of every man.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, War, Men

  'Henry V' (1599) act 2, chorus, l. 1

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• I love producing my kids and my wife's TV show. I love doing that. I think that's my most natural space in the business. I would say the most natural space for me is producing or editing. That's just where I thrive.

  Willi Smith

  Kids, Thinking, Editing

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