Selected Quotes

192 quotes by 182 authors

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by… — Stephen Covey
It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary… — Mircea Eliade
Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best… — Murray Rothbard
Confronted with the loving-sharing Consensus of subject-SUBJECT relationships all Authoritarianism must vanish. The Fairy Family Circle, co-joined in the shared vision of non-possessive love -… — Harry Hay
If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man has grown up… — Charles Ives
Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated. — Niklaus Wirth
In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in… — Vilfredo Pareto
The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected. — Eli Siegel
As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling… — Kate Clinton
No one had to impose my enemies on me. I selected them myself. I didn't avoid them: I pointed them out, marked them, attacked them. — Jacobo Timerman
I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected… — Duane G. Carey
To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of… — Dan Barker
A grower of chrysanthemums awaited a visit from the emperor, who was coming to enjoy his blossoms, of which there were hundreds in bloom. The… — John Templeton
The image of the world around us, which we carry in our head, is just a model. Nobody in his head imagines all the world,… — Jay Wright Forrester
I selected an enormous Marine Corps emblem to be tattooed across my chest. It required several sittings and hurt me like the devil, but the… — Smedley Butler
In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people. — Joel Dorman Steele
The voters selected us, in short, because they had confidence in our judgement and our ability to exercise that judgement from a position where we… — John F. Kennedy
Way back in 1989, I got lucky with my first published story when it was selected for the Journey Prize anthology. Then I got lucky… — David Bergen
What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected… — Robert Ringer
Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occamâ€™s razor, which… — David G. McAfee

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