Stifle Quotes
113 Stifle quotes by 99 unique authors
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Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome…
— Twyla Tharp
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If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your true potential.
— Steve Rizzo
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Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for…
— Arthur Rubinstein
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Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for…
— John Taylor Gatto
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The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate…
— Dennis Hastert
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I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a good idea. One…
— Theodore von Karman
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On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style…
— Cynthia Weil
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If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious…
— Ernestine Rose
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The key.. will be a new public awareness of how serious is the threat to the global environment. Those who have a vested interest in…
— Al Gore
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I don't even know if I have the capacity for normal emotions or not because I haven't cried for a long time. You just stifle…
— Jeffrey Dahmer
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The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.
— Esther Perel
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There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something…
— Thomas Paine
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Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.
— Ronald Reagan
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The State, in organizing security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility; in establishing a national minimum, it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action…
— William Beveridge
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Eternal vigilance must be maintained to guard against those who seek to stifle ideas, establish a narrow orthodoxy, and divide our nation along arbitrary lines…
— Jesse Ventura
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Don't stifle your career by limiting you knowledge.
— David Cottrell
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It is necessary for a Christian to fast, in order to clear his mind, to rouse and develop his feelings, and to stimulate his will…
— John of Kronstadt
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Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could…
— Janet Frame
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Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but…
— Gaston Bachelard
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