Thrive Quotes - Page 6

• The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

  Simone Weil

  Time, Past, Crime

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.48, Routledge

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• One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

  Frank Zappa

  Philosophical, Agreement, People

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• All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous effects of its stresses and strains on whatever thrives on its surface. The ambitions and dreams of men are irrelevant to this planetary giant which pursues its own way in its own manner. Man is its child, tenant and still, to this date, its captive.

  Jack Kirby

  Dream, Children, Stress

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• Where neoliberalism thrives is in having done something that we haven't seen before. There is a merging of culture, politics, and power under neoliberalism that's unprecedented. They control the cultural apparatuses. And what I mean by "cultural apparatuses" is all those institutions that are about the production of knowledge, values, dispositions, and subjectivities. They control them.

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, Culture, Done

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• My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

  George Weah

  Government, Law, Boots

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• But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Wind, Rivers

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [401]

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• We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.

  Henry Cloud

  Success, Mistake, People

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• I drank to be funny, or sexy. I drank because I was afraid or happy or sad, and I drank for anything that required emotional commitment. ... I had chosen a profession that thrives on insecurity, and is never far from some source of social intercourse that involves alcohol or drugs.

  Lynda Bellingham

  Sexy, Commitment, Emotional

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• Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

  Howard Zinn

  Patriotism, Mob Rule, Form

  "Dissent In Pursuit Of Equality, Life, Liberty And Happiness: An Interview With Historian Howard Zinn". Interview with Sharon Basco, July 3, 2002.

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• Stupidity—The top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. Satanists must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Stupid, Ignorance, Media

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• Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

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• Justice and peace can only thrive together, never apart.

  Oscar Arias

  Justice, Together, Peace And Justice

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• The hurt you embrace becomes joy.

  Rumi

  Hurt, Joy, Embrace

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• None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Accomplishment, Achievement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2664, Delphi Classics

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• My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Mean, Intuition, Needs

  Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2010.

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• Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

  Thucydides

  Ignorance, Religion, Atheism

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• Bullies thrive wherever authority is weak

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Weak, Being Bullied

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• Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways for everyone.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Acceptance, Caring, Vision

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• You can't know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehensive your education, no matter how wide ranging your experience, there is simply no way to acquire all the wisdom you need to make your business thrive.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Wisdom, Business

  Donald J. Trump (2004). “Trump: The Way to the Top: The Best Business Advice I Ever Received”, p.17, Crown Business

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• It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Loss, Ideas, Information

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• A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. They must be the most important thing in her life, but if she is the most important thing in theirs, she has failed.

  Erin Kelly

  Mother, Children, Important

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• Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We run and we chase. We are problem-solvers. We must be continuously tested and we continuously test ourselves. And it will not end until our lives end because of life itself.

  Art Buchwald

  Running, Tests, Doe

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• States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent to the extent that they're powerful, that's roughly accurate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Powerful, Government

  "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media". Documentary, Biography, War, 1992.

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• These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer hours.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Government, Benefits, Pay

  "America’s public servants are now its masters". www.ft.com. September 10, 2010.

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• One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Expression, Order

  Howard Zinn (2001). “Howard Zinn on War”, p.171, Seven Stories Press

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