I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the… — J. R. D. Tata Copy Share Image
The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
“This is why a woman needs to combine niceness with insistence, a style that Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas - beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally.… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
Obama's immigration legacy will be the juxtaposition of his serial insistence that he was not a king or an emperor, and could… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“It is this insistence of man upon meaning that makes him so difficult. Once he realizes that he is of no importance… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Satyagraha means insistence on what one knows to be the truth. The insistence implies the exercise of free will as the need… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
What is that which can never die It is that faithful force that is born into us that one that is greater… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy. Most of you say, 'When I get… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
I've put live performance in a lot of spaces. Part of what I want to do is take over the takeover. Another… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This… — Robert D. Richardson Copy Share Image
We see in Islam a religion that traces its origins back to God's call on Abraham. We share your belief in God's… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the basic principles of liberalism to make it a stationary creed; there are no hard-and-fast rules fixed once… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we… — John Green Copy Share Image
We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example,… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Americans know that a strong alliance of free, sovereign and independent nations is the best defense for our freedoms and for our… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
