Top 100 Quotes About Thrives
#2. Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.
Vivek Wadhwa
#3. Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.
John Wilmot
#4. I drank to be funny, or sexy. I drank because I was afraid or happy or sad, and I drank for anything that required emotional commitment ... I had chosen a profession that thrives on insecurity, and is never far from some source of social intercourse that involves alcohol or drugs.
Lynda Bellingham
#5. Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon and mysticism it offers to their wonder and credulity.
William Hazlitt
#6. I think one of poetry's functions is not to give us what we want ... The poet isn't always of use to the tribe. The tribe thrives on the consensual. The tribe is pulling together to face the intruder who threatens it. Meanwhile, the poet is sitting by himself in the graveyard talking to a skull.
Heather McHugh
#7. Humanity is a germ that thrives on the very edge of catastrophe.
Joe Hill
#9. Fat is your friend. The brain thrives on a fat-rich, low-carbohydrate diet.
David Perlmutter
#10. Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.
Orson Scott Card
#11. Women need a space to be creative
creativity thrives in solitude.
SARK
#12. Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite, and only a few pass this test of affinity with human nature.
Robert Wright
#13. As it turns out, the atrocities we suffered were committed by none other than ourselves, and the inner sense of guilt and fear sparked by this incident helped form the roots of the frantic hatred that thrives to this day. (2007: 9)
Hwang Sok-yong
#16. Confidence ... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#17. The church thrives where people are focused on Jesus, not where they are focused on church.
Wayne Jacobsen
#18. Courtship is exciting and romantic because it thrives on the edge of disaster. It co-exists with the threat that, at any moment, it could fall apart and be lost forever.
Karen Scalf Linamen
#19. No tyrant could thrive where every subject said no. The tyrant thrives when the first fucking fool salutes.
Steven Erikson
#21. I like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular.
Zooey Deschanel
#22. Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.
Kate Christensen
#23. Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.
Timothy Noah
#24. Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture.
Apolo Ohno
#25. My father thrives on fear. You know that prayer If I should die before I wake? I had sheets that said that!
Christopher Titus
#27. Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds.
Virgil
#28. Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something.
Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us.
Sophie Kinsella
#29. The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.
Deepak Chopra
#30. Remember: Oppression thrives off isolation. Connection is the only thing that can save us.
Yolo Akili
#31. It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.
Richard Dawkins
#33. This is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places - as technology evolves and we evolve with and ahead of it. Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.
Satya Nadella
#34. Government ought to be all outside and no inside ... Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
Woodrow Wilson
#35. Politics thrives on simple, clean messages, something that played to Obama's advantage in 2008. Stagnant unemployment and the loss of America's AAA rating are as simple and tough as they come. This is the economy on Obama's watch, and there's no one left to blame.
John Sununu
#36. For we die every day; oblivion thrives 520 Not on dry thighbones but on blood-ripe lives, And our best yesterdays are now foul piles Of crumpled names, phone numbers and foxed files.
Vladimir Nabokov
#37. Indeed, infatuation thrives on image (while love thrives on knowledge).
Chana Levitan
#38. What does the universe want from us? It wants us to be alive. It wants us to fully partake in life. The universe thrives on the music we create.
Ruben Papian
#40. Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.
Sissela Bok
#41. The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.
Marya Mannes
#42. A lack of love is the cause for most problems in life, when love is missing, nothing can flourish, only pain thrives.
Leon Brown
#43. Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.
Tim Jackson
#44. The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#45. I don't think that a woman in politics exists or thrives on her own.
Nicolle Wallace
#48. Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#49. Side note: is anyone else grateful social media wasn't a thing when they were a teenager? It's like Draco Malfoy and all three Heathers smooshed into one invisible organism that thrives on Internet memes and passive aggression.
Brittany Gibbons
#50. Think about your work situation. Do you treat your creativity like a fossil fuel - a limited resource that must be conserved - or have you harnessed the unending power of the sun? Are you in an environment where creativity thrives? Is there room for new ideas every day? Can you make room?
Biz Stone
#53. Creativity in science is almost always cumulative and collaborative; it proceeds collectively and thus thrives when barriers to collectivity are reduced.
Lewis Hyde
#54. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences
Nikola Tesla
#56. Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.
Jeanette Winterson
#57. Nevertheless, likin' is a tender plant, and never thrives long when watered with tears. Let the 'arth around your married happiness be moistened by the dews of kindness.
James Fenimore Cooper
#58. Eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other.
Esther Perel
#59. SF does possess at least two of the classic markers of genrehood, namely intellectual disreputability and moral salaciousness. SF thrives because it is idea porn.
Neal Stephenson
#60. Attention is the most concrete expression of love. What we pay attention to thrives. What we do not pay attention to withers and dies. What will you pay attention to today?
Karen Maezen Miller
#61. Good story thrives on protagonists in pain.
Chuck Wendig
#62. Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil for the satisfactions men live by. That being so, the market place is a most humane institution.
Frank Chodorov
#63. If you had better sense you'd have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness
Kathleen Winsor
#64. Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.
Samuel Garth
#66. The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.
Wendy Kaminer
#68. Yet despite how he's drawn to danger, how it thrives within him, or maybe because of it, the dark and wicked side of me softens at the feel of his lips on my skin.
A.G. Howard
#69. Bliss Thrives
From within,
Deep inside
Where Love dives.
James Josue
#70. In limits, there is freedom. Creativity thrives within structure. Creating safe havens where our children are allowed to dream, play, make a mess and, yes, clean it up, we teach them respect for themselves and others.
Julia Cameron
#71. Emotion is what hip-hop thrives on. Don't you want your music to have emotion in it? People like to always throw some negative cloud over it. Doesn't even make sense.
Kid Cudi
#73. A shipper thrives on emotional scraps, stolen glances and did-they-or-didn't-they tension.
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#75. Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.
Myrtle Reed
#76. Religion thrives on woolly allegory, emotional commitments to texts that no one reads, and other forms of benign hypocrisy.
Steven Pinker
#77. thrives on exploration and a change in scenery is often all it takes to rejuvenate a distressed ENFP.
Heidi Priebe
#78. There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach - it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
William Howard Taft
#79. Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.
Henry Cloud
#80. Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.
Robert Genn
#81. Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
All are on their rounds tonight;
In the wan moon's silver ray,
Thrives their helter-skelter play.
Joel Benton
#82. The power of religion and godliness lives, thrives, or dies, as closet prayer lives, thrives, or dies. Godliness never rises to a higher pitch than when men keep closest to their closets, etc.
Thomas Brooks
#83. What this means is that most non-vegans can only imagine what it would be like for them to be vegan, whereas the vegan can actually remember what it was like for her to be non-vegan. And yet, against all societal odds, he lives, thrives, and continues to enjoy food.
Sherry F. Colb
#85. Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade.
Robert Kuttner
#86. Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
Antonin Artaud
#87. Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to 'crowdsource' ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services.
Geoff Mulgan
#88. It was a dictum of his that the soul's energy thrives when the body's desires are feeblest.
St.Athanasius
#89. Blest is that government where no art thrives.
Thomas Nashe
#90. I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Aldous Huxley
#91. But if you are to die, live first! Come forth With me into the glory of God's earth! Soon, soon the gilded cage will claim its prize. The Lady thrives there, but the Woman dies, And I love nothing but the Woman in you.
Henrik Ibsen
#92. I love you because you loved me first. Yet you love me, saying I loved you first. Funny, our love thrives believing the other person started it.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#93. While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#94. Terror thrives on the bottomless pit of imagination, and the imagination comes to life with the passage of time. Time is its vintner, the family its furtile field.
Mark Nykanen
#95. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#96. Every creature thinks itself best in its own element, that is the place it thrives in, and enjoys its happiness in; now Christ is the element of a Christian.
Richard Sibbes
#97. Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.
Hillary Clinton
#98. Humans are born into the light Shining good, shining bright Only evil thrives at night Let us banish them from our sight.
Richelle Mead
#99. I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.
William Mapother
#100. I've always thought that love thrives on a certain kind of distance, that it requires an awed separateness to continue. Without that necessary remove, the physical minutiae of the other person grows ugly in its magnification.
Siri Hustvedt
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