Thrive Quotes - Page 37

• I tend to thrive on being misquoted. It's the only way I sound good.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Sound, Way

  "Jamie Campbell Bower Talks Fake Tattoos, Female Protagonists, Working with Lily Collins, and More on the Set of THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it

  Orlando Bloom

  Movie, Adventure, Love Is

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• I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is.

  Joni Mitchell

  Crazy, Keys, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• Ask yourself this: How much deprivation, how much self-effacement must you suffer through before you act on your desire for meaning and fulfillment? Before it’s your turn to thrive in your life, instead of barely surviving it? Some people live their dreams. Why not you?

  Jillian Michaels

  Dream, Self, People

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• At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

  Jenny Holzer

  Mindless, Inactivity

  Jenny Holzer (1983). “Truisms and essays”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.

  Pat Metheny

  Music, Way, Jazz

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• There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach - it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.

  William Howard Taft

  Religious, Dark, Men

  Speech to the Young Men's Hebrew Association in New York, December 20, 1914.

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• Kids can and will thrive in the right conditions, but it all seems to start with the teachers, and giving those teachers the resources to teach- and not just to test.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Teacher, Kids, Giving

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• We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization.

  Charles Siebert

  Civilization, Arguing, Argument

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• The use of 'conspiracy theory' as a derogatory - as an epithet almost - is something the propagandists have perfected over the decades, and it's a useful tool for eliminating articulate dissent and other points of view, and information that might be inconvenient for a policy agenda.

  Chris Sanders

  Views, Use, Agendas

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• The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

  Cornel West

  People, Lasts, Chaos

  Cornel West (1999). “The Cornel West Reader”, p.272, Basic Books

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• He who learns death unlearns slavery.

  Cornel West

  Slavery, Unlearn

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• A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

  E. Digby Baltzell

  Men, Answers, Asking

  E. Digby Baltzell (2018). “Judgment and Sensibility: Religion and Stratification”, p.191, Routledge

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• The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

  Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

  Lasts, Firsts

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• Every aquarium will eventually leak.

  Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

  Aquariums, Leaks

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• Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in discovering the deep roots of one's feelings.

  Fernand Pouillon

  Lying, Roots, Feelings

  Fernand Pouillon (1970). “The stones of Le Thoronet”, Jonathan Cape

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• Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy

  Frank Herbert

  Answers, Entropy, Governors

  Frank Herbert (2017). “The Dosadi Experiment and The Eyes of Heisenberg: Two Classic Works of Science Fiction”, p.123, Tor Science Fiction

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• When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

  Frank Herbert

  Law, Littles, Individual

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, Path, Danger

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.69, Penguin

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• Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

  Margaret Fuller

  Education, Knives, Training

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.60

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• Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Science, Soul

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.27, University Press of America

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• Courage is a kind of salvation.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Courage, Philosophical

  Plato (1883). “Plato's Best Thoughts”

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• A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Dog, Buddhist

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• Doubt everything. Find your own light.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Light, Doubt

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• Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Animal, Men

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