Abandoning Quotes

102 quotes by 92 authors

Choosing one path means abandoning others - if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none. — Paulo Coelho
What's really driving the boom in coaching, is this: as we move from 30 miles an hour to 70 to 120 to 180......as we go… — John P. Kotter
Even the most ardent environmentalist doesn't really want to stop pollution. If he thinks about it, and doesn't just talk about it, he wants to… — Milton Friedman
The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the… — R. Kent Hughes
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs — Mikhail Gorbachev
An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning… — Daniel Yergin
Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap. — Ira Glass
The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some… — Heinz Pagels
At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The… — Timothy Keller
Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others. — Anne Desclos
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota. — Gustave Courbet
Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to… — Ibrahim Babangida
Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart. — Abdullah ibn Mubarak
How is it possible for oneâ€™s heart to be certain that one is going to meet Allah, that Allah sees and hears all that he… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us. — Joan D. Chittister
I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on… — Dan Chaon
An important part of leaving and cleaving has to do with abandoning parental beliefs, lifestyles, values, and traditions that are not clearly delineated in the… — Lou Priolo
The ad industry isn't struggling for a new set of principles or abandoning the ones that made it great from the start. It's simply in… — Rochelle B Lazarus
Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes… — Zhuangzi
I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else. — Sebastiao Salgado

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