Triggers Quotes - Page 6

• A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Success, Wise

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 21, 2013

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• In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don't trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Jesus, Children, Book

  ""Poverty Is a Greater Concern for Most than a Democratic Constitution"". Interview with Martin Doerry, www.spiegel.de. August 29, 2005.

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• Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Decision, Energy

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.23, Xist Publishing

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• The thing that has always interested me in the kinds of shows that I do have more to do with the consequences of behavior than the behavior itself. Pulling a trigger and shooting somebody, or dismembering somebody.

  Steven Bochco

  Shooting, Kind, Behavior

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Guns don’t kill people. The aliens behind the triggers do.

  John Scalzi

  Gun, People, Aliens

  John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.274, Macmillan

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• Greece bankruptcy will trigger a market crash. My advice: Buy Bitcoin & Gold Both will rise when the markets crash.

  Kim Dotcom

  Advice, Gold, Bitcoin

  Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom, twitter.com. June 20, 2015.

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• By temperament I am not unduly excitable and certainly not trigger-happy. I think twice before I shoot and very often do not shoot at all. By professional standards I do not waste a lot of film; but by the standards of many of my colleagues I probably miss quite a few of my opportunities. Still, the things I am after are not in a hurry as a rule.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Opportunity, Thinking

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

  Brian Tracy

  Opportunity, Rejection, Doubt

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.57, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I learned to pray out of desperation. For most of us, this is how the adventure usually begins. When we finally get serious about prayer, the trigger is usually desperation, not duty.... We don't pray because we ought, we pray because we are without any other recourse.

  David Jeremiah

  Prayer, Adventure, Serious

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• Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.

  Alan Greenspan

  Cutting, Thinking, Views

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• The market gives you the opportunity to arbitrage what the emotional investor will pay or sell at versus the fundamental value of a company, but you've got to pull the trigger promptly without hesitating. We've disciplined ourselves mentally and prepared ourselves in terms of information, as well as relationships with brokers, to do that.

  Richard Chandler

  Emotional, Opportunity, Giving

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• Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization. One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history's great advances. Using accounting for fraud and folly is a disgrace. In a democracy, it often takes a scandal to trigger reform. Enron was the most obvious example of a business culture gone wrong in a long, long time.

  Charlie Munger

  Enron Scandal, Civilization, Long

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• Beware leverage in all its forms. Borrowers - individual, corporate, or government - should always match fund their liabilities against the duration of their assets. Borrowers must always remember that capital markets can be extremely fickle, and that it is never safe to assume a maturing loan can be rolled over. Even if you are unleveraged, the leverage employed by others can drive dramatic price and valuation swings; sudden unavailability of leverage in the economy may trigger an economic downturn.

  Seth Klarman

  Government, Swings, Fickle

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• Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.

  Lech Walesa

  Organization, Police, Listening

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• Almost always, it is the conviction that 'I am right' or 'my cause is the cause of justice' that triggers violence. That is, ...the moment propaganda does its work, violence is unleashed. And violence can be reduced by countering this propaganda.

  Jacques Ellul

  Justice, Doe, Violence

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• In the midst of all the chaos swirling through your brain, all the disorganization and impulsiveness, the condition (ADHD) also seems to trigger a certain kind of creativity.

  David Neeleman

  Creativity, Brain, Chaos

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• That "ol' black magic" is a fickle force. The chemistry of romantic love can trigger the chemistry of sexual desire and the fuel of sexual desire can trigger the fuel of romance. This is why it is dangerous to copulate with someone with whom you don't wish to become involved. Although you intend to have casual sex, you might just fall in love.

  Helen Fisher

  Falling In Love, Sex, Romantic Love

  Helen Fisher (2005). “Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love”, p.86, Macmillan

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• I'm a Western-cultured man who subscribes to the ancient saw that men do not cry, I don't cry either. I'll go to a movie, for example, and not infrequently something triggers the urge to weep, but I don't allow myself.

  Rod Serling

  Men, Example, Saws

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• In the meantime, we have just incredible economic disparities and economic despair in this country and an entire generation that is basically held hostage in debt without the jobs to get out of it. And this is not a world that's working for us, and the climate is going up in flames right now, and the wars are expanding, and we've got 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. This is not a good picture, and I think the American people are discovering that.

  Jill Stein

  Country, Jobs, War

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• There were three options [in Allied], which were for [Bred Pitt] to shoot [Marion Cotillard], for them to escape, or for her to pull the trigger, which is a heroic act to spare him. When I was thinking about how it would end, a long time ago, I think I tried each of them to see, but two of them did not work.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, Two, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  Argument, Sometimes

  Source: girdblog.com

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• For me, honestly, I'm an actor. There's one thing I know how to do - act. And that's all I know how to do. Through our work, [actors] can trigger awareness.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Actors, Awareness, Honestly

  Source: www.thehollywoodgossip.com

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• Pulling a gun's trigger can be an appalling act. But if it is suicidal drawing fire to save someone, it has an utterly different meaning. Placing your hand on someone's arm can be an act of deep compassion or the first step of betrayal. The punch line? It's all about context, and the biology of context is vastly more complicated than the biology of the behavior itself.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Betrayal, Suicidal, Gun

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Events in the present can trigger quite a young part of ourselves. If we don't take responsibility and start looking after that young part of ourselves, we can start asking partners to look after that part of ourselves or we wound ourselves.

  Danny Boyle

  Responsibility, Events, Looks

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was no murderer, because he had no such design. And, on the other hand, a man who should lie in wait to assassinate another, and pull the trigger of a gun with that intent, would be morally a murderer, not the less though the gun should chance to miss fire.

  Richard Whately

  Kings, Lying, Gun

  Richard Whately (1860). “Introductory Lessons on Morals, and Christian Evidences”, p.38

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