Outside Quotes
4687 quotes by 3152 authors
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One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may separate…
— Jared Diamond
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There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of…
— Neil Strauss
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What I’d like to teach my daughter about self-image and self-esteem is that you’re beautiful on the inside and the outside, and not to get…
— Dara Torres
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Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the view of the…
— Olafur Eliasson
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All it takes to make a difference is the courage to stop proving I was right in being unable to make a difference ... to…
— Werner Erhard
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A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be…
— Robert Menzies
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Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their…
— Unknown Author
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If you want your children to relate to the culture you live in, if you want to train them outside of the general system, you…
— Jacque Fresco
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Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
— Bill Crawford
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So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside…
— Franz Kafka
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At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to…
— Erick Erickson
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The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside…
— Hermann Hesse
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Consider the cost when Christians ignore Jesus commands to sell their possessions and give to the poor and instead choose to spend their resources on…
— David Platt
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From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
— Barry Eisler
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The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.
— W. Edwards Deming
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Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They come so rarely and with…
— David Rakoff
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Well, I was into music since I was a kid, ya know, back in Detroit. I say Detroit, but it was really a little suburb…
— Kid Rock
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started.…
— Billy Collins
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People hide behind the word aesthetic. They say, ‘Well, it’s just that designer’s aesthetic.’ But when you see 18 seasons in a row and not…
— Joan Smalls
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