Instead Quotes
6491 quotes by 4013 authors
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Instead of competing, all we have to do is create.
— Earl Nightingale
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I want to be a politician. I think I understand how the system works, I think a lot of politicians are corrupt, and it's about…
— Charles Barkley
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Instead of building newer and larger weapons of mass destruction, I think mankind should try to get more use out of the ones we have.
— Jack Handey
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I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11…
— Wilt Chamberlain
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I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm…
— Jason Kidd
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If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime,…
— Tommy Douglas
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You've been told that you're broken, that you're damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don't buy it. The truth, instead, is that you…
— James Mattis
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When I'm worried and I can't sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep.
— Irving Berlin
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I'm just suggesting that when you're faced with fear and anxiety, don't medicate. Meditate instead.
— Russell Simmons
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It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why, it discovers Relativity.…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation],…
— Frederick Soddy
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This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every…
— Winston Churchill
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Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it…
— Pema Chodron
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it…
— Martin Luther
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Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Now if I do anything it is to tune souls instead of instruments. To harmonize people instead of notes. If there is anything in my…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.
— Katrina Kenison
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Instead of one-way interruption, Web marketing is about delivering useful content at just the right moment that a buyer needs it.
— David Meerman Scott
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