Zero Quotes - Page 14

• We need goals when the scoreline is zero zero

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Goal, Needs

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• Man is indeed lost, but that does not mean that he is nothing. We must resist humanism, but to make a man a zero is not the right way to resist it ... [The] Christian position is that man is made in the image of God and even though he is now a sinner, he can do things that are tremendous - he can influence history for this life and the life to come, for himself and for others...From the biblical viewpoint, man is lost, but great.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Mean, Biblical

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• Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used.

  Chris Crutcher

  Children, School, Giving

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• I brought in two genius guys from Korea. Guys who did my favorite movies like Oldboy and The Man from Nowhere. It was fun working with them. Even though they don't speak Japanese and I don't speak Korean, I knew from day one we were speaking the same language because they love my work and I love theirs. We instantly connected. There was zero frustration.

  Ryuhei Kitamura

  Fun, Men, Frustration

  Source: collider.com

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• Everybody on YouTube starts with zero subscribers. You think of everyone you look up to or have watched for years or whatever, they may seem like this is their life now, but it wasn't always that.

  Tyler Oakley

  Thinking, Years, Looks

  Source: www.teenvogue.com

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• he economy favors throughput over quality and craftsmanship, and economists are terrified because the American savings rate has crept upward from about zero to almost five percent. But the mortgage crisis and the burgeoning credit card crisis are causing Americans to become wary of irresponsible debt.

  Denis Hayes

  Quality, Cards, Saving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The trade unions in the UK are campaigning around zero-hours contracts, which isn't about feminism, but it's a feminist issue. Women are affected by zero-hours contracts, and the recession has and is affecting women more than men.

  Rachel Holmes

  Men, Issues, Feminist

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My whole thing is I like to hang around winners, I like winning spirits, I have zero tolerance for jealousy.

  Taryn Manning

  Winning, Tolerance, Spirit

  "Taryn Manning: Sanity Isn't 'Black' or White". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. August 21, 2013.

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• Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Arbitrary, Lines, Want

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.67, Penguin

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• The best way to become more creative is to create nothing. By this, I mean that you should return to zero point. Rid yourself of all the mental and emotional blocks that keep you from manifesting your full creative potential.

  Ilchi Lee

  Art, Block, Creativity

  Ilchi Lee (2007). “Principles of Brain Management: A Practical Approach to Making the Most of Your Brain”, p.58, BEST Life Media

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• The most important lesson that were supposed to be learning right now is how completely lost we are without God. If we don't learn this lesson, then our lives are going to have zero meaning. (Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality)

  Brian Welch

  Jesus, Important, Stronger

  Brian Welch (2010). “Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Joy

  Swami Vivekananda “Lectures Vol. 4”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.

  Patrice Leconte

  Cameras, Holding On, Subtle

  "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". Interview with Ryan Mottesheard, www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.

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• Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Towers, Want, Planning

  "You've got to have faith" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.

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• Why do we send valuable items like aluminium and food waste to landfill when we can turn them into new cans and renewable energy? Why use more resources than we need to in manufacturing? We must now work together to build a zero waste nation - where we reduce the resources we use, reuse and recycle all that we can and only landfill things that have absolutely no other use

  Hilary Benn

  Working Together, Energy, Needs

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• The quantum fluctuations within a zero-point field can start the process that builds the process, which builds into matter, an irreversible process. We have some evidence that suggests that. We don't have a Big Bang, but we have a lot of little pops! A continuous set of little pops!

  Edgar Mitchell

  Bangs, Littles, Matter

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• We have this myth that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Jobs, Mind

  "Death Of The (Predatory) Salesman: These Days, It's A Buyer's Market". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 31, 2012.

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• Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Destiny, World, Obedience

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.192, CUP Archive

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• Samuelson spotted a mistake in Bacheliers work. Bachelier's model had failed to consider that stock prices cannot fall below zero.

  William Poundstone

  Mistake, Fall, Stock Price

  William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.122, Macmillan

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• Labor has come out with a series of proposals to increase taxes, including taxes on people across Australia saving for their retirement, he has actually identified so far zero dollars in spending reductions.

  Tony Abbott

  Retirement, Australia, People

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• Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you've had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you're a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.

  Bill Nighy

  America, People, Training

  "Bill Nighy Stops the Clock". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2013.

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  Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Nihilism, Doe

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five?

  Martin Seligman

  Enabling, Plus, Humans

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• In debating the respective merits of dogs and cats, not having to walk a cat when it's 20 below zero deserves consideration.

  Doug Larson

  Dog, Cat, Merit

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• You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments dismal; it's a zero sum game, and its guarantor of value, its marker is that you pretend you play it solo, preserving the myth that you alone are the wellspring of your creativity.

  Tony Kushner

  Drama, Creativity, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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