Top 100 Conducive Quotes
#1. Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. There always is the potential to create an environment of blame -or one that is conducive to loving-kindness.
Pema Chodron
#2. Pleasure and thrill are conducive to sadness after the so-called peak has
been reached; for the thrill has been experienced, but the vessel has not
grown.
Erich Fromm
#3. It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.
Zhou Yongkang
#4. Disarmament should be conducive to the enhancement of every country's general security instead of becoming the instrument and means for a few countries to strengthen their military superiority by weakening or restricting other countries.
Sha Zukang
#5. This imbalance causes resentments within the over-responsible and dependency with the irresponsible person and this dynamic becomes the destructive life-pattern not conducive to happy families.
David W. Earle
#6. As a business leader you have to ask yourself, "Am I creating a consumer environment that is conducive to loyalty?" If the answer is no, FIX IT!
Steve Maraboli
#7. If I had ever, in any medium, seen any researcher or popularizer refer even once to any supposedly ay-producing circumstance as the proper hormone balance, or the conducive endocrine environment, for gay generation, I would be less chilled by the breezes of all this technological confidence.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
#8. Certainly, the job of a U.S. senator is to create a climate conducive to creating jobs, which is lower taxes and less government regulation. What Harry Reid has been doing is putting forward those policies that actually put more regulation on business.
Sharron Angle
#9. If these influences are reversed - and they can be - an environment designed around the true needs of individuals, conducive to the formation of community and preservation of the landscape, becomes possible.
Andres Duany
#10. The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#11. He had no love for sleeping inside and wanted his horse near him. There was something about lying under the stars that was conducive to thought, and he had some thinking to do.
Louis L'Amour
#12. I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.
Lady Gaga
#13. I began to think that there was a place for 'Footloose' to get retold again, that there was actually a more conducive political climate, an emotional climate to explore a town that has experienced a trauma and a shock, and starts overreacting.
Craig Brewer
#14. The most important consideration I have is I want my legislative shop to have a functional office suite that is conducive to getting their work accomplished.
Steve Womack
#15. Just as a warm and moist environment is conducive to the spread of deadly bacteria, the worlds of politics and business especially - with their long time frames, complex outcomes, and murky cause and effect - are conducive to the spread of half-cocked guesses posing as fact.
Steven D. Levitt
#16. When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.
Raekwon
#17. The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
Samuel Butler
#18. Watch out for negative power places on the earth, if you can "see" they are reddish and they twist your feelings. They don't vibrate at a rate conducive to humanity.
Frederick Lenz
#19. New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.
Herman Kahn
#20. I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.
Bob Mould
#21. I find theatre easier than films, because it gives you an environment of a dark hall, the audience concentrating with you ... whereas, film sets are not conducive to long rehearsals, and it is difficult to pick up the emotions amidst all that is going on around you.
Randeep Hooda
#22. Surround yourself with those conducive to you being your highest self.
A.D. Posey
#23. Life will never improve to the point where living your dream becomes conducive, So just get started.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#24. On the other hand, the sun of Naples might be conducive to learning something about the biochemistry of the embryonic development of marine animals.
James D. Watson
#25. In my experience of ward nursing, two shifts are more conducive to sleep than three." "But
Emma Donoghue
#26. It is the possession of a great heart or a great head, and not the mere fame of it, which is worth having, and conducive to happiness. Not fame, but that which deserves to be famous, is what a man should hold in esteem.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#27. You know. I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes. All that kind of stuff to do sometimes, to do good performances, but always conducive to having a good time creatively.
Colin Farrell
#28. There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
William Osler
#29. There can be few places more conducive to the quiet, solitary contemplation of melancholy thoughts than a window-seat; and if beyond the window-panes there is a steely vignette of November murk and withered twigs, so much the better.
Jude Morgan
#30. Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.
David Devant
#31. A few places are especially conducive to inspiration - automobiles, church - public places. I plotted Couples almost entirely in church - little shivers and urgencies I would note down on the program, and carry down to the office Monday.
John Updike
#32. I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#33. To some, having children may seem as conducive to travelling as having your feet set in concrete.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#34. John was a mild man, but he was human, and after a long day's work to come home tired, hungry, and hopeful, to find a chaotic house, an empty table, and a cross wife was not exactly conducive to repose of mind or manner.
Louisa May Alcott
#35. If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Vincent Peale
#36. When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.
John Lubbock
#37. A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
P.D. James
#38. Sometimes I think the city is naturally conducive to coincidences in the same way that Plains states like Nebraska and Oklahoma are conducive to twisters, in the same way that mountain lakes are conducive to lightning.
Robert Sullivan
#39. We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.
James Hansen
#40. Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.
Joseph Addison
#41. I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#42. If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally.
Mehmet Oz
#43. If you don't feel comfortable playing a role, if you're in a scenario that's not conducive for that kind of environment, then that's when you don't do well.
Nina Dobrev
#44. Soetsu Yanagi, in the "Unknown Craftsman", writes, "Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs." For example, for optimal productivity, a carpenter needs woodworking tools and an environment conducive to his work, not a steam shovel or army tank.
Jeff Davidson
#45. There is an environment where someone is always looking for someone to make an error. They're always looking not for the good things, the wonderful things the president and first lady are doing, they're looking for an error or to criticize. And it's not conducive to good work.
Desiree Rogers
#46. There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
Edith Hamilton
#47. It's great to meet people in a setting where it's really conducive to hanging out and having
fun. Most film festivals are really low-stress, and good times to hang out with buddies and talk about what you're working on and come up with new ideas.
Joe Swanberg
#48. It's not the most conducive weather to play softball in, but you've got to come out and play it.
Mike Candrea
#49. English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.
Marilyn Butler
#50. History shows that anything conducive to our national stability is good.
Jiang Zemin
#51. He wanted it forever, too, but, it was impossible. His past, her future, neither was conducive to forever. Those outside forces that loomed, they were barriers to forever. No, forever was for simpler people and simpler times.
Sarah MacLean
#52. Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it.
John Wesley
#53. It requires conducive social conditions rather than monstrous people to produce atrocious deeds. Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can do extraordinarily cruel things.
Kat Banyard
#54. Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#55. Hopefully, he'll be able to persuade Hades not to kill you. That wouldn't be conducive to the start of a good relationship.
Rosanna Leo
#56. Sometimes when you have an abundance of time and money, it's less conducive to the creative process. I like the urgency of the television schedule and the television price point. It's fluid. You figure it out on the day, and I love the challenge of problem-solving.
Joseph McGinty Nichol
#57. The intrinsic motivation principle of creativity, which holds, in part: "Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity."11
Daniel H. Pink
#58. Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings ... that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
Gautama Buddha
#59. True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the contradictions of life, conducive to some benefit, casts a grave but tranquil light over the prospect of even a toilsome and troubled life.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#60. Pretty much, I am always open to input from everyone; although I don't require it, the feedback is conducive to getting the play together.
Jimmi Simpson
#61. older brother was to make sure he did as Graham wasn't going out that night because he had a very bad head cold and a sore throat, neither of which were very conducive to enjoying dancing the night away in the smoky atmosphere of a club. Jean and Dee
Lyn Andrews
#62. Arts crafts and sciences uplift the world of being and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.
Baha'u'llah
#63. If laughter is one of the best medicines in life ... laughing at yourself is a conducive pill.
Timothy Pina
#64. He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
Norman Douglas
#65. Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
Scott Thompson
#66. Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
Dorothy Day
#67. I think there are multiple studies now to demonstrate that diversity, a better balance between genders, but also between different fields as well, is actually conducive to better growth, better bottom line, better results.
Christine Lagarde
#68. Woolies had a DVD sale on so I treated myself to a couple or five plus two CD's, one of which is The Smiths. It'll come in handy when my credit card statement hits the mat and I need something to listen to that's conducive to suicide.
Gillibran Brown
#69. Life and situations will never improve to the point when living a dream becomes most conducive...honestly; it will never happen.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#70. I don't love playing new songs in a festival environment. Because when it comes to a festival a lot of people probably won't know your band really well at all so playing more familiar songs is a little more conducive in having a better show.
Jack Barakat
#71. True balance means taking care of your health so you can enjoy your family and friends, which then leads to an environment that is conducive for experiencing success in your career.
Michelle Moore
#72. I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means.
Lisa Ling
#73. When I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to write about, wasn't conducive to their policies or to electoral success.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#74. It's really hard to find stuff that is original. You pick up scripts and in four pages you know where it's going and the same thing when you are sitting in a theatre, I just rejoice when something unfolds in a way that I'm not conducive ...
Susan Sarandon
#75. Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not conducive to good health.
Michael Pollan
#76. Around the world today people are spontaneously spawning a culture dedicated to creating conditions conducive to life.
Kenny Ausubel
#77. Nothing was more calming, more conducive to pure reason, than the atmosphere of money.
Mario Puzo
#78. The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives ... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.
Laura Miller
#79. I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that's conducive to the enjoyment of music.
Beck
#80. Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity.
Daniel H. Pink
#81. Chocolate is a kitchen witch's secret weapon. It makes friends easily, soothes troubled spirits, and is conducive to romance. When nothing else works, go with chocolate.
- Sadie Trevalyn's Book of Kitchen Witchery
Alyssa Goodnight
#82. Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility.
Mahnaz Afkhami
#83. Hmmm," he said. "Quite a novel idea, I must say. But hardly conducive to a bestselling, tell-all, no-holds-barred biography.
Alan Bradley
#84. The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of the printed text orients one to a world of order, meaning, and the possibility of knowing truth.
Douglas Groothuis
#85. I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.
Samuel Johnson
#86. Trust is a collective mind - the corporate culture. You can't build and nourish trust without creating a conducive environment of trust.
Pearl Zhu
#87. There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It's been important for me to cloister myself off.
Jewel
#88. For small businesses to thrive, they require an environment that is conducive for growth.
Nydia Velazquez
#89. Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon.
Michael Leunig
#90. My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.
Douglass North
#91. We were living in California, and it just wasn't conducive for the lifestyle that we wanted with kids. Los Angeles is tricky to get around, there's paparazzi to deal with, and I had this feeling that I just wanted to move back to Australia.
Chris Hemsworth
#92. Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive to increased activity. The important thing is to keep going.
Philip Rieff
#93. Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence.
Robert Andrews Millikan
#94. I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.
Randall Kennedy
#95. Yet we are constantly annoyed, and the legislatures are kept constantly busy, by the people who have made up their minds that it is wise and conducive to happiness to live in a certain way, and who want to compel everybody else to live in their way.
William Graham Sumner
#97. My surroundings have always been conducive to achieving what you want and believing in self 100 per cent; not being afraid to stand up and voice your opinion.
Poppy King
#98. I don't listen to a ton of music other than putting my show together, just because my lifestyle isn't too conducive to listening to music all the time. I like to watch basketball, and I would rather not listen to music while I'm doing that.
Doug Martsch
#99. Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#100. The issue is not whether people are "good enough" for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom.
Paul Goodman
