Appropriately Quotes

#1. To the degree that one relates sensitively, appropriately, and even charmingly, to the people and events faced in business and personal life, success will follow.

Herman L Glaess

#2. The argument that 'boys will be boys' actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behavior from boys and men. The assumption is that they are somehow not capable of acting appropriately, or treating girls and women with respect.

Jackson Katz

#3. Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

John Maeda

#4. When I'm interviewing someone, I want to make sure that he thought enough to take care of himself - to dress appropriately and to groom himself properly.

Bill Rancic

#5. Three cheers for acting appropriately!

Rick Riordan

#6. You cannot behave appropriately, unless you perceive correctly. Once you perceive you are a beam of Light, that comes from the mind of God, you will carry yourself differently.

Carlos Santana

#7. Enclosures have been appropriately called a revolution of the rich against the poor.

Karl Polanyi

#8. I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence. It must be noted that this is a subjective definition, and that this degree of mastery would be individual to each of us.

Chris Matakas

#9. It is unrealistic to imagine a US geostrategic vision which sees its pivotal interests linked exclusively to the Pacific region. More appropriately, we need to consider the wider Middle East, Central Asia and North-East Africa to be bound together in a geopolitical unit of pivotal importance.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

#10. Jackie Kennedy was the most appropriately dressed first lady we've ever had. You can see how lasting Jackie's style is.

Lynda Resnick

#11. When this No-Mind has been well developed, the mind does not stop with one thing nor does it lack any one thing. It appears appropriately when facing a time of need.

Takuan Soho

#12. If you're going to yell at me, do it in English, please. I'd like to understand the insult so I can frame an appropriately pithy response.

Chloe Neill

#13. To give generously but appropriately and then, most difficult of all, and as the full apotheosis of the art, with feeling, in the moment and spontaneously, has always been recognized as one of the greatest of human qualities.

David Whyte

#14. they are aware of having been misunderstood as children, they feel that the fault lay with them and with their inability to express themselves appropriately.

Alice Miller

#15. If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going to respond?

Tony Dungy

#16. Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create regional architectural languages that seem curiously right for their locations and for all times.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

#17. The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty." "Discipline is, therefore, primarily a learning experience and less a punitive experience if appropriately dealt with.

Maria Montessori

#18. When differences of view emerge, as they are bound to do from time to time, they should be resolved privately and whenever appropriately, collectively.

Nigel Lawson

#19. Each positive thought, every vibrant attitude, all purposeful activities water the seeds for success along your path. You will encounter many seeds for success today. Pay attention to these and feed them appropriately. Then maintain their beautiful growth through conscious self-care.

Rebecca Gordon

#20. Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy ... I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal, immoral, orfattening, give it your blessing." We do much better ... if we find and support all the places we can appropriately say yes, and say only the no's that really matter.

Virginia Satir

#21. Anything that does not belong where it is, the way it is, is an "open loop," which will be pulling on your attention if it's not appropriately managed. In

David Allen

#22. We do not read (the law) to elevate accommodation of religious observances over an institution's need to maintain order and safety, ... We have no cause to believe that (the law) would not be applied in an appropriately balanced way, without sensitivity to security concerns.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#23. I think I've always been much better at responding kind of reasonably appropriately to whatever is required.

Ian McLeod

#24. 7. Dress appropriately for your work environment.

We get it; you want everyone to know how creative and interesting you are. Well, let your personality do that for you rather than your crop top and feather shoes.

Grace Helbig

#25. If I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.

Beth Moore

#26. Basic geometric shapes communicate universal qualities common to all cultures. Practical design integrates them appropriately.

Maggie Macnab

#27. Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait ... artfully nuanced and intellectually curious.

Hank Stuever

#28. To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.

Buzz Aldrin

#29. Wanting to sound like other people has its temptations. There are inherited habits of speech guaranteed to make us sound authoritative, intelligent, worldly, appropriately grateful, or deeply moved.

Alain De Botton

#30. I dare you to show me one example where I haven't discharged my responsibility seriously, professionally and appropriately.

John Key

#31. The skin is our body's envelope, the wrapping that delivers us to the world. If we understand how the skin functions in mid-life and adjust goals and life-styles appropriately, we'll be surprised how much better we can look.

Jane Fonda

#32. Rule #1: Writing is for the creative brain. Editing is for the critical brain. Separate them appropriately.

James D. Beers

#33. Try as we might, we cannot force our children to reach their full potential. Theirs is the life that they alone must live. The role of the parent is to prepare the most fertile soil and appropriately water the seedling so it can most fully blossom.

Gabriel Cousens M.D.

#34. The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.

B.F. Skinner

#35. Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately".

N. T. Wright

#36. Our government works should be treated fairly and appropriately; they should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.

Bruce Rauner

#37. After a series of traumas, one can lose the capacity to feel fear appropriately. (xiii)

Jessica Stern

#38. Race relations can be an appropriate issue ... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue appropriately, we can transform it from the cancer of our society into the cure.

David Dinkins

#39. Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!

Sarah Palin

#40. Everything is poisoned, and it's all poisoned from greed. I think our inability to communicate with each other and everything that's happening in the world is all a symptom of our greater inability to deal with nature appropriately.

Woody Harrelson

#41. An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation.

Howard Gardner

#42. You couldn't hurt a fly.
Actually I was pretty good at pinging flies right out of the air, but I tried to look appropriately harmless.

Josh Lanyon

#43. Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.

Ann Coulter

#44. Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.

Chip Kidd

#45. The verification services that could be offered would be applied appropriately according to the business process that was involved,

Andy Burnham

#46. I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'

Craig Bruce

#47. I deeply regret that those with the authority and responsibility to deal appropriately with Brendan Smyth failed to do so, with tragic and painful consequences for those children he so cruelly abused.

Sean Brady

#48. Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power

Benito Mussolini

#49. The phrase "singular incredible life" seems to me that it applies more appropriately to Jane Goodall or David Attenborough, people I regard with awe and who stand for great humanism and knowledge.

Merrill Markoe

#50. We're not interested in confiscating their guns, as long as they are legitimate gun owners, as long as they store them appropriately, transport them appropriately and so on ...

Anne McLellan

#51. Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.

Jessica Valenti

#52. Becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.

Stephen R. Covey

#53. I'm age-appropriate. I dress age-appropriately, I choose mates age-appropriately. I'm a big believer in people should act their age.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#54. He progressed not by always making right decisions but by responding appropriately to wrong ones.

Brennan Manning

#55. The bathroom door swings open and Nate walks out. He's toweling his damp hair and wearing nothing but a pair of boxers.
Crap. I should have left this for a more appropriately clothed time of day.

Rachel Morgan

#56. Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of non-essentials?

Edna Woolman Chase

#57. There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.

Adam Driver

#58. One of the most difficult parental challenges is to appropriately discipline children. Child rearing is so individualistic. Every child is different and unique. What works with one may not work with another.

James E. Faust

#59. For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp.

Joe Klein

#60. To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

Michel De Montaigne

#61. Plan all you want for the future. Prepare for it. But don't worry about how you will react tomorrow, or even five minutes from now. Your creative mechanism will react appropriately in the 'now' if you pay attention to what is happening now.

Maxwell Maltz

#62. God gave women instinct and womanliness. Utilized appropriately, the combo effortlessly disorders the mind of any man I've ever met.

Farrah Fawcett

#63. Chloe Sevigny always dresses appropriately but doesn't blend in with the crowd.

Mark Indelicato

#64. If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.

Robert Adam

#65. Jasper, who is six, is the only one of us who responds appropriately. He wails, inconsolable for an hour.

David Sheff

#66. Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.

Howard Gardner

#67. I have had a satisfactory, often exciting life, of which I am appropriately proud.

Kermit Roosevelt Jr.

#68. We are living in an increasingly feminized society. Some people view that as an increasingly civilized society, but it has left our boys with deep desires for honor but few outlets for displaying it appropriately.

Cindy Rollins

#69. I feel like women still deal with dressing appropriately for the office. It's by choice - you don't want to sexualize yourself too much. You want to be respected. You want to be taken seriously, and there's certain things in our culture, if you do, if you wear, you won't be taken seriously.

Elisabeth Moss

#70. I'm going to commune with God and I must be appropriately dressed!

Joseph Haydn

#71. At the heart of the human condition, we might say, is an epistemological sin - the refusal to acknowledge what can be known about God and then to respond appropriately: "Although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him" (Rom. 1:21). They engage in willful blindness.

Nancy Pearcey

#72. If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.

Ben Carson

#73. I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies.

Ryan Gosling

#74. God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.

Tullian Tchividjian

#75. That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age.

Propertius

#76. The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.

Seth Godin

#77. I love that our sport is sexy. I think it is appropriately so.

Kerri Walsh

#78. A feat - of access and of passionate and appropriately unsettling political commentary.

Lisa Schwarzbaum

#79. Grief will happen either as an open healing wound or a closed festering wound, either honestly or dishonestly, either appropriately or inappropriately. But emotions will be expressed.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#80. And on this dirty night there were appropriately dirty deeds that not even the rain could wash away.

Terry Pratchett

#81. I make no apologies for us wanting to do this [bombing Iraq and Syria] appropriately and in a way that is consistent with American values.

Barack Obama

#82. It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.

Stephen Covey

#83. Properly directed thoughts result in properly directed actions. The only way to appropriately guide our thoughts is to know their foundation, our values.

Chris Matakas

#84. One thing I'm most proud of, in my movies, is that I think the performances are super-strong, but that's not all me. I think part of it is casting appropriately.

Josh Radnor

#85. Find something to do that you love because then the work itself is always the reward not the recompense. And if you love what you're doing you probably do better at it than doing something you don't love and therefore you'll be compensated appropriately.

David McCullough

#86. The workshop is a fresh approach that helps employees increase their productivity while improving their happiness and attitude in the workplace. As you might guess, The Miracle Morning workshop is appropriately done in the morning, usually before the actual conference begins.

Hal Elrod

#87. Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#88. I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion people at an acceptable standard of living. But I'm a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied.

Martin Rees

#89. In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated from the ranks of career public health professionals who merit consideration, as is done in the other uniformed services.

Richard Carmona

#90. When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself

Ida Rolf

#91. The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.

Soren Kierkegaard

#92. As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But now a 10th person just started, so we are holding a conference, appropriately titled the TENTH Eiffel USER conference, to celebrate.

Bertrand Meyer

#93. When we feel safe, when we feel we are with someone who basically agrees with us about the symbolic universe, we let down our defenses, confident that our companion understands the symbols that are usually wall up, and will act appropriately.

Jennifer Michael Hecht

#94. We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.

Michel De Montaigne

#95. My mother grieved appropriately for a woman who had lost her husband of almost thirty years so tragically, and then, after six months, she blossomed.

Jane Green

#96. Calling home a close finish - And the judge has called for a photo, appropriately for the Bonusprint Sirenia Stakes.

Graham Goode

#97. 'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings scattered through the wilds of the Kimberley, an area larger than Germany in the remote, scarcely populated northwest of Australia.

Richard Flanagan

#98. Sanctification in any area of our lives always expresses this double dimension - a putting off and a putting on, as it were. Speech and silence, appropriately expressed, are together the mark of the mature.3

John Piper

#99. Actually, I'm an excellent liar. But what I'm really good at is appearing appropriately sheepish and adorable after I'm caught.

Julia Quinn

#100. Remember, our very first job is to appropriately monitor our teen's safety. After all, if we're not successful at that, then any discussion of cognitive skills is irrelevant.

Madeline Levine