Top 100 Quotes About Existing

#1. The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an "individual," existing apart from his group.

Erich Fromm

Quotes About Existing #1823104
#2. For forms existing in larger numbers will always have a better chance, within any given period, of presenting further favourable variations for natural selection to seize on, than will the rarer forms which exist in lesser numbers.

Charles Darwin

Quotes About Existing #1835907
#3. The organization is "committed to improving the state of the world." In practice it is mainly a rich people's club, committed to preserving the existing world order.

John Lanchester

Quotes About Existing #1835898
#4. A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Quotes About Existing #1835835
#5. EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context

Kengo Kuma

Quotes About Existing #1835647
#6. Rethink Success: Most people will never achieve past their existing levels, because they don't understand the importance of changing their Mindset

Tony Dovale

Quotes About Existing #1832369
#7. It's very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment ... because it doesn't take any more corraling, no more electricity, rent, machinery or labour to double your production on an existing place.

Joel Salatin

Quotes About Existing #1831275
#8. One of the best ways of reducing both CO2 emissions and poverty in the South would be to strengthen the existing, decentralised demographic pattern by keeping villages and small towns alive. This would allow communities to maintain social cohesion and a closer contact with the land.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Quotes About Existing #1827575
#9. I'm not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.

Shashi Tharoor

Quotes About Existing #1827143
#10. What promotes math progress even more than new ideas are new technical tools and habits of thought that encapsulate existing ideas, so that insights of one generation become the instincts of the next.

Jim Propp

Quotes About Existing #1825395
#11. The fear of not existing never goes away.

Regine Stokke

Quotes About Existing #1836277
#12. The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.

Norbert Wiener

Quotes About Existing #1821660
#13. To be loved means to be recognized as existing.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Quotes About Existing #1819591
#14. I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

Tammy Baldwin

Quotes About Existing #1818350
#15. He had a winged nature; she was rather of the vegetable kind, and could hardly be kept long alive, if drawn up by the roots. Thus it happened that the relation heretofore existing between her brother and herself was changed.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Quotes About Existing #1815742
#16. Sometimes the best thing about us isn't what we're gifted with, but what we can make others feel just by our very nature of existing.

Sarah Noffke

Quotes About Existing #1815191
#17. In that moment, Lux felt complete for the first time. He hadn't even realized anything was missing until he met her, but now, with her curled up in his arms, her hair tickling against his chin, he couldn't imagine existing without her - Virtue - A Fairy Tale

Amanda Hocking

Quotes About Existing #1814581
#18. Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.

Dinesh D'Souza

Quotes About Existing #1811179
#19. I press my palm to the small pane of glass and feel the cold clasp my hand in a familiar embrace. We are both alone, both existing as the absence of something else.

Tahereh Mafi

Quotes About Existing #1810865
#20. Inner quiet can be cultivated. Meditation is a healing balm to a frazzled brain existing in a hectic world.

Amy Leigh Mercree

Quotes About Existing #1848417
#21. In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming within its existing contours, but to explore a better deal for all Minnesotans.

Tim Pawlenty

Quotes About Existing #1878478
#22. Just existing is where a lot of living happens.

Fred Gallagher

Quotes About Existing #1876205
#23. Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

Hugo Gernsback

Quotes About Existing #1874939
#24. Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and arranges them in patterns. The camera-eye doesn't think, it recognizes. It shows us what we already know, but don't know that we know.

David Levi Strauss

Quotes About Existing #1872510
#25. While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments.

Paul Laseau

Quotes About Existing #1865809
#26. Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself,

Julian Bond

Quotes About Existing #1860784
#27. Her father, indulgent in his concern, had opened his library to her, and at last she could read to her heart's content. In all, these past few weeks had been some of the most peaceable of her life. She had the sense of existing inside a fragile pause, a moment of grace.

Helene Wecker

Quotes About Existing #1859542
#28. You want to change something in a computer? Just type over or delete the existing material. You want to change something in a mind? Forget it.

Al Ries

Quotes About Existing #1857411
#29. I think of all music as existing in the substance of the air itself. It is the composer's task to order and make sense of sound, in time and space, to communicate something about being alive through music.

Libby Larsen

Quotes About Existing #1810463
#30. Starfleet, where keeping decorum ranked just beneath exploration as its reason for existing.

John Jackson Miller

Quotes About Existing #1847788
#31. in order to change an existing imagined order, we must first believe in an alternative imagined order.

Yuval Noah Harari

Quotes About Existing #1847321
#32. What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Napoleon Hill

Quotes About Existing #1844412
#33. I'm turning left. Look, everyone, my blinker is on, and I'm turning left. I am so happy to be alive, driving along, making a left turn. I'm serious. I am doing exactly what I want to be doing at this moment: existing on a Tuesday, going about my business, on my way somewhere, turning left.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Quotes About Existing #1839530
#34. Following an extended boom in housing, the demand for homes began to weaken in mid-2005. By the middle of 2006, sales of both new and existing homes had fallen about 15 percent below their peak levels. Homebuilders responded to the fall in demand by sharply curtailing construction.

Ben Bernanke

Quotes About Existing #1839103
#35. Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him.

Stephenie Meyer

Quotes About Existing #1839032
#36. There is a real fear around shifting from our existing economic system because people believe it gives us social organisation, a sense of freedom, and the ability to be nice to each other. Growth is seen as a social lubricant that allows us to be socially responsible.

Tim Jackson

Quotes About Existing #1838709
#37. The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.

Malcolm X

Quotes About Existing #1838200
#38. In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding a law to alter it.

Peter Kropotkin

Quotes About Existing #1767958
#39. Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.

Taiichi Ohno

Quotes About Existing #1789483
#40. Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

John Frusciante

Quotes About Existing #1789164
#41. just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing.

Jenny Han

Quotes About Existing #1788187
#42. With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp.

Lancelot Hogben

Quotes About Existing #1787202
#43. The natural law is, in essence, a profoundly 'radical' ethic, for it holds the existing status quo, which might grossly violate natural law, up to the unsparing and unyielding light of reason.

Murray Rothbard

Quotes About Existing #1783211
#44. Trying to change someone only makes them cling to their existing behavior with brutish, primal force.

Brian D'Ambrosio

Quotes About Existing #1780704
#45. The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

Caleb Cushing

Quotes About Existing #1780702
#46. I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love to solve.

Hilary Liftin

Quotes About Existing #1774667
#47. Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.

Kabir

Quotes About Existing #1773156
#48. But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

Peter L. Berger

Quotes About Existing #1789586
#49. All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Quotes About Existing #1757659
#50. Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

Aldous Huxley

Quotes About Existing #1756236
#51. This is the law: Every thing existing on the physical plane is an exteriorization of thought, which must be balanced through the one who issued the thought, and in accordance with that one's responsibility, at the conjunction of time, condition, and place.

Harold Percival

Quotes About Existing #1756210
#52. Was I altering the 'space-time continuum' or whatever they called it in time travel movies, just by existing right now? Perhaps I'd accidentally kill a mosquito that might have given some famous person a disease that killed them?

J.R. Rain

Quotes About Existing #1754076
#53. You became the sonnet that was etched in my minds eye. Existing outside the dreams we shared in the presence of our eternal love.

Truth Devour

Quotes About Existing #1753768
#54. Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go about trying to buy up all existing copies.

Joyce Carol Oates

Quotes About Existing #1753209
#55. Jesus did not begin to be loved at the moment of his baptism, nor did he cease to be loved when his baptism became a memory. Baptism simply named the reality of his existing and unending belovedness.

Rachel Held Evans

Quotes About Existing #1752763
#56. Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.

Jacob M. Appel

Quotes About Existing #1752150
#57. The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones.

Terry Winograd

Quotes About Existing #1801697
#58. Your customers are responsible for your company's reason for existing.

Marilyn Suttle

Quotes About Existing #1809821
#59. An elementary particle is not an independently existing, unanalyzable entity. It is, in essence, a set of relationships that reaches outward to other things.

Henry Stapp

Quotes About Existing #1809121
#60. Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.

Jose Saramago

Quotes About Existing #1809001
#61. What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.

Philip Glass

Quotes About Existing #1807084
#62. Every crisis, actual or impending, needs to be viewed as an opportunity to bring about profound changes in our society. Going beyond protest organizing, visionary organizing begins by creating images and stories of the future that help us imagine and create alternatives to the existing system.

Grace Lee Boggs

Quotes About Existing #1805151
#63. Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.

Northrop Frye

Quotes About Existing #1804162
#64. Train leaders in behaviors that promote trust and respect. Bust existing silos and focus on what's best for the project.

Eunice Parisi-Carew

Quotes About Existing #1803170
#65. most breakthrough products result from a long cycle of hit-and-miss prototypes, the steady accumulation of features, and a timely synthesis of existing technologies.

Brent Schlender

Quotes About Existing #1802047
#66. The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.

James Russell Lowell

Quotes About Existing #1750615
#67. Few ideas have more profoundly poisoned the minds of more people than the notion of a "free market" existing somewhere in the universe, into which government "intrudes.

Robert B. Reich

Quotes About Existing #1800964
#68. I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

Benjamin Cardozo

Quotes About Existing #1798429
#69. The good life is that which succeeds in existing for the moment, without reference to past or future, without condemnation or selection, in a state of absolute lightness, and in the finished conviction that there is no difference therefore between the instant and eternity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Quotes About Existing #1798190
#70. Patchway had the enviable countryman's capacity, which is shared only by great actors, of standing by and saying nothing, and yet existing, large, present, and at ease.

Iris Murdoch

Quotes About Existing #1796701
#71. Give yourself permission to stop existing and start growing. We all need more than work for self-actualization. Remember that interests and hobbies aren't frivolous; they're necessary for fulfillment and health.

Susan Barbara Apollon

Quotes About Existing #1795596
#72. Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Ronald Reagan

Quotes About Existing #1795348
#73. Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed.

Henry Rollins

Quotes About Existing #1793750
#74. If you like your existing plan you get to keep it

Barack Obama

Quotes About Existing #1793352
#75. And they do what they can. Try to learn to live with themselves, try to live rather than just existing.

Fredrik Backman

Quotes About Existing #1187959
#76. Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.

Kofi Annan

Quotes About Existing #1084212
#77. Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing

Thomas Aquinas

Quotes About Existing #1084676
#78. If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground.

Herman Cain

Quotes About Existing #1086125
#79. Relative to the taxi industry, Uber is a sustaining innovation; that is, it makes customers' lives better. Uber targeted mainstream markets with a better service for existing customers, and it succeeded in serving them better than the incumbents.

Clayton M Christensen

Quotes About Existing #1086932
#80. That's the part where the governments have a unique role, and then when it progresses well enough, then existing companies or new startup companies should take it. In the $3 trillion a year energy market, the rewards will be quite fantastic.

Bill Gates

Quotes About Existing #1089982
#81. It is easy to begin anew, rather than try to redo the existing.

Aporva Kala

Quotes About Existing #1091006
#82. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

Herbert Simon

Quotes About Existing #1095218
#83. When it comes to pay raises, Congress always plays the role of Grinch. The bill extends an existing pay freeze for Vice President Joe Biden, specifically, and senior political appointees broadly.

Susan Davis

Quotes About Existing #1096139
#84. Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.

Martial

Quotes About Existing #1096198
#85. There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

Autre Ne Veut

Quotes About Existing #1097148
#86. I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. I don't want to participate in the existing debate that's going on about whether or not you should be able to have as many guns as you want to have or that guns are even the problem.

Michael Moore

Quotes About Existing #1097657
#87. Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man. It is money which in existing society opens an astounding range of choice to the poor man, a range greater than that which not many generations ago was open to the wealthy

Friedrich August Von Hayek

Quotes About Existing #1103858
#88. What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

Pete Townshend

Quotes About Existing #1104697
#89. There is so much beauty in just existing. In being alive.

Hannah Harrington

Quotes About Existing #1105373
#90. A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.

Markus Zusak

Quotes About Existing #1106870
#91. Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Quotes About Existing #1110009
#92. I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

Charlie Hunter

Quotes About Existing #1115216
#93. outside of the structures of the existing institutionalized religions. There were always pockets of spirituality even in mind-dominated religions, although the institutionalized hierarchies felt threatened by them and often

Eckhart Tolle

Quotes About Existing #1116182
#94. Some people conclude that the injustices existing in the world prove there is no God. On the contrary, I conclude that God, being both just and merciful, will and can rectify all inequities in a life after death.

Henry Eyring

Quotes About Existing #1118183
#95. The biggest reason people don't succeed is because they don't expose themselves to existing information.

Jim Rohn

Quotes About Existing #1119065
#96. When we leverage, we aggregate and organize existing resources to achieve success.

Richie Norton

Quotes About Existing #1119874
#97. For us the issue cannot be the alteration of private property but only its annihilation, not the smoothing over of class antagonisms but the abolition of classes not the improvement of the existing society but the foundation of a new one.

Karl Marx

Quotes About Existing #1120091
#98. Rather than focus on trying to get a lot of customers to market yourself, really focus more on the actual product or service itself and existing users to, like, what would make them happier, what would make them come back more and more times or in our case buy more often.

Tony Hsieh

Quotes About Existing #1120533
#99. There is that low level existing before reaching to the peak.

Ezekiel Mosoatsi

Quotes About Existing #1122991
#100. One little thing led to another. One success, one particular challenge, could spur thoughts about another product, or a different iteration of an existing product, or a whole new channel of revenue. As Steve liked to say, "You can only connect the dots of how things really happened in hindsight.

Brent Schlender

Quotes About Existing #1123460

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top