Accommodating Quotes
43 quotes by 42 authors
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Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.
— Sun Tzu
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating…
— Peter Ackroyd
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The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic need to legal response
— Nathan Rosenberg
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Oh, dear God, thank you, you are such a good God to us. A kind and gentle and accommodating God, and we thank You oh…
— Ben Stiller
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With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness…
— Linda Gregerson
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Victims may be defensive, submissive, over-accommodating to others, passive-aggressive in conflict, dependent on others for self-worth, overly sensitive, even manipulative. They're often angry, resentful, and…
— David Emerald Womeldorff
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Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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"Diversity" is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to be sought. True, America does a better job than most at accommodating a diverse…
— Ann Coulter
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But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where they are the most accommodating,…
— Julius Evola
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Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs, roam, sleep, have…
— Jon Katz
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My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be…
— Jeri Ryan
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It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.
— Adrian Tan
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The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see how the show is actually…
— Shiri Appleby
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Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.
— Ron Suskind
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Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational…
— Robert Boswell
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Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors…
— Warren Buffett
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Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and…
— David Cottrell
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control.
— Sylvia Boorstein
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Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with my foolishness, my…
— G. Campbell Morgan
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There is no situation so bad that it cannot be accepted patiently, with an open, accommodating, and peaceful heart.
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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