Insisting Quote by Edith Schaeffer

“always remember that it is progress, not perfection, you should be looking for.”

— Arbinger Institute

“We throw away real people searching for the "perfect" person the same way that we throw ourselves away searching for our "perfect" self.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

I think Africa is slowly learning - and painfully - that importance of insisting on responsible leadership. It will come eventually, and we may…

— Chinua Achebe

No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on…

— Benjamin Graham

Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.

— S. D Gordon

Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.

— Sheryl Sandberg

I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting that one type of music is better…

— Corey Taylor

In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or…

— Benjamin Graham

To the extent that we honor all aspects of ourselves, we remove revulsion, self-hate, horror, and terror from our lives. As whole human beings…

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles…

— Stella Chess

I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that…

— Meg Rosoff

I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting…

— Ridley Scott