Prevailing Quotes

154 quotes by 141 authors

Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the only… — Joyce Johnson
The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product thatâ€™s at least ten times better at doing something than the current… — Ben Horowitz
The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which… — Medard Boss
If custom is to avail for proof of soundness, we too, surely, may advance our prevailing custom; and if they reject this, we are surely… — Gregory of Nyssa
The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon… — Ludwik Fleck
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.… — George Orwell
I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. The optimist has won half the battle, the most important half… — Thomas Buckner
While you live your life aboard the ship of life be aware of the sea of life on which it floats and on which it… — Ian Gardner
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited,… — Barbara Tuchman
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
That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them. — Eric Hoffer
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude — Colin Powell
We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be… — Edward Bernays
The usability tests we have conducted during the last year have shown an increasing reluctance among users to accept innovations in Web design. The prevailing… — Jakob Nielsen
Beloved, there are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God that the eagles discerning eye and philosophical thought have never seen...God alone can… — Charles Spurgeon
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. — Jeffrey Tucker
There is one prevailing key to success. Do what you resolve to do. Then you'll be a success. If you can discipline yourself to follow… — Brian Tracy
In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of oneâ€™s grandchildren,… — Noam Chomsky
In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter… — J. Paul Getty
If you carry the weather with you, then character is determined by the prevailing wind — Jamie O'Neill

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