Instead Quotes
6491 Instead quotes by 3769 unique authors
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Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world.
— Deepak Chopra
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The best way to fight terrorism is to invest in education. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.
— Malala Yousafzai
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For all our current troubles, Americans are still the hardest working, most innovative people on the face of the earth. By trusting the American people,…
— Rob Portman
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My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair…
— Georgina Chapman
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On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.
— Andy Hargreaves
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I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm…
— Drew Bledsoe
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I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been…
— Jennifer Saunders
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Rest is a decision we make. Rest is choosing to do nothing when we have too much to do, slowing down when we feel pressure…
— Mike Yaconelli
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How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes…
— Matt Ridley
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A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.
— Richard Armour
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Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success
— Herb Brooks
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Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Rule Number One is this: If you’re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if…
— Gay Hendricks
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The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the…
— Paul Tournier
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Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love.
— Eknath Easwaran
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The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of…
— Florence King
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When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought…
— E. Stanley Jones
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Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to…
— Arthur W. Pink
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I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair.…
— Jenny Eclair
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When I was a child, my father used to encourage my brother and me to fail. At the dinner table, instead of asking about the…
— Sara Blakely
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