Abdicating Quotes

#1. Most people who describe themselves as visionaries are actually saying something quite different. They are abdicating their responsibility for the details. Details matter. The more someone or something matters to us, the more the details relating to them matter to us.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#2. When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand a different course. Those who refuse to do so are abdicating the most basic duty of citizenship and rendering themselves impotent.

Glenn Greenwald

#3. The fact is, all education is directed to some end, and if parents don't make conscious decisions on what that end is, they are simply abdicating their role in setting the direction" of their children's lives.

Rod Dreher

#4. While Cinder couldn't imagine him abdicating his throne and setting off on a lifetime of space travel and adventure, it was rather adorable watching him try to fit in.

Marissa Meyer

#5. Abdicating-Decision-Making

Karen Kingston

#6. The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.

Yani Tseng

#7. The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.

Claude Bernard

#8. Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.

Stuart Rose

#9. The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

Sydney Smith

#10. A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players, policeman scribbling in pads and making radio calls, witnesses crimping their faces, EMS guys folding equipment.

Darin Strauss

#11. Football is the best, is the biggest sport in the world.

Pele

#12. You don't dive for specific solutions; you dive to enliven that ocean of consciousness. Then your intuition grows and you have a way of solving those problems-knowing when it's not quite right and knowing a way to make it feel correct for you. That capacity grows and things go much more smoothly.

David Lynch

#13. A girl asked me if she could comb my hair. Nobody can comb my hair, I can't even comb my hair.

Jimi Hendrix

#14. As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

#15. I think of my novels as entertainments.

Stephen Carter

#16. Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad times.

William Forsyth Sharpe

#17. It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.

Graham Greene