Intrinsic Quotes

216 Intrinsic quotes by 169 unique authors

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Gold has intrinsic value. The problem with the dollar is it has no intrinsic value. And if the Federal Reserve is going to spend trillions… — Peter Schiff
Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes only instrumental, or… — Fritjof Capra
It really makes little difference in the long run whether The Book of the Law was dictated to [Crowley] by preterhuman intelligence named Aiwass or… — Israel Regardie
Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation. — W. Edwards Deming
I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see of the objective… — Giorgio Morandi
If such external influences are intrinsic to religion, then logic and scientific thought dictate that there must be a mechanism by which this influence is… — Lisa Randall
Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed? — Peter Behrens
The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to earn their right… — Richard Holloway
Freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of identity. This is my Holy Trinity, each one an intrinsic aspect of my god: Freedom, the Holiest… — Pat Condell
We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we… — Edsger Dijkstra
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. — Gustav Stickley
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the bare beauty of… — Gustav Stickley
To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that last a lifetime:… — Rod Paige
Why is it so? If live is a gift, all that belongs to and is intrinsic to life is going to be a gift. You… — Rajneesh
People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love… — Abraham Maslow
Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it… — Gottfried Leibniz
Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek… — Carl Jung
Silence is Golden; it has divine power and immense energy. Try to pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to… — Eckhart Tolle
The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a… — Warren Buffett
Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this.… — Albert Einstein
Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces… — W. Edwards Deming
Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more. — Hilary Rosen
Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away. — Rajneesh
Flint has the potential to produce fire, and gems have intrinsic value. We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close,… — Nichiren

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