Accepting Quotes

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The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas. — Tom Peters
Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them. — Abigail Van Buren
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept. — Jean Cocteau
My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation. — Mukesh Ambani
It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn. — Isaac Asimov
Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost… — Twyla Tharp
Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself. — Loren Eiseley
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. — Dag Hammarskjold
How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively… — Henri Frederic Amiel
I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness,… — Carl Rogers
School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming… — Ivan Illich
If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can… — Cyril Connolly
I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my… — Liv Ullmann
It's a withdrawal of love, coupled with rejection. That combination is hard to accept, and often triggers feelings of not good enough, failure at relationship,… — John Robert Seeley
If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at face value. As… — Ernest Gaines
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation. — Dean Acheson
Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude… — Chogyam Trungpa
We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it. — Chogyam Trungpa
Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the fall,… — Sidney Lanier

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