Likely Quotes
2182 Likely quotes by 1547 unique authors
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When we smile, the muscles around our mouth are stretched and relaxed, just like doing yoga. Smiling is mouth yoga. We release the tension from…
— Nhat Hanh
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It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself.
— Frederick Lenz
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I decided to be a smarter fighter. I already knew I was tough, so if I was smart and tough, I was more likely to…
— Cub Swanson
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People are much more likely to trust a leader if they know he is compassionate and forgiving of mistakes.
— Donald T. Phillips
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Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore, things must be…
— Richard P. Feynman
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It's an empirical question whether training makes one more or less likely to get in a fight outside the gym. In some ways, I'm probably…
— Jonathan Gottschall
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When you love what you do, more than likely everything is gonna just come out decent.
— Ghostface Killah
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You're more likely to slip up when you're trying to accomplish your goals by yourself. It may be that you don't have an outer support…
— Lauren Mackler
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The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.
— Craig Groeschel
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China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think…
— Amy Chua
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Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The…
— Vladimir Lenin
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I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.
— Albert Bandura
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There's a general intuition around the nonprofit world these days that younger generations are less likely to join. But I have found in my research…
— Arthur C. Brooks
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Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics.
— Frederick Osborn
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We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further…
— Errol White
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People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are created by many…
— Justin Kan
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Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's…
— Criss Jami
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After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth…
— Criss Jami
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The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up
— Ben Parr
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Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time
— Lewis Gannett
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Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.
— E F Schumacher
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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be…
— Abraham Flexner
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