Top 100 Sources Of Sayings
#2. There are only two sources of human vice - idleness and superstition, and only two virtues - activity and intelligence.
Leo Tolstoy
#3. Our paradigms, correct or incorrect, are the sources of our attitudes and behaviors, and ultimately our relationships with others. *
Stephen R. Covey
#4. One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.
Helen Lynd
#5. When absorbing the sadness of the loss, we must concentrate on bad guys to demonize, or black holes of sympathy in which we get to play the cosmic victim of terrible circumstances. Demonizing and victimizing are the sources of those stories in which we can get so woefully stuck
John P. Schuster
#6. Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
Napoleon Hill
#7. Scientists should always be on the lookout for new potential sources of knowledge and understanding.
Volker Fintelmann
#8. I don't know that I can define fear. But one of the sources of fear is holding up some sort of model life that doesn't exist and feeling like you're far away from it.
Albert Brooks
#9. Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in the ratio of a million to one, compared with any previous sources. The release of atomic energy will change the whole structure of society.
Frederick Soddy
#10. The Fourth Industrial Revolution can compromise humanity's traditional sources of meaning - work, community, family, and identity - or it can lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a sense of shared destiny. The choice is ours.
Klaus Schwab
#12. Resveratrol is fascinating stuff. One of the best sources of information about it is the Immortality Institute. They have a forum where some people are in the 500 Club, as they call it. They've been taking 500 milligrams for years. It's a really great source of data.
Timothy Ferriss
#13. In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.
Lincoln Steffens
#14. With the right sources of funding and some smart, strategic thinking about how to force non-banks to follow the same rules as other lenders, the entire landscape of consumer lending would change.
Elizabeth Warren
#15. Although System 2 believes itself to be where the action is, the automatic System 1 is the hero of the book. I describe System 1 as effortlessly originating impressions and feelings that are the main sources of the explicit beliefs and deliberate choices of System 2. The
Daniel Kahneman
#16. What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.
Benjamin Disraeli
#17. Take care, father," said Bulloch gently, "that what you call murder and robbery may not really be war and conquest, those sacred foundations of empires, those sources of all human virtues and all human greatness.
Anatole France
#18. I've got a variety of different sources of news that I follow and every day there's going to be different headlines, different stories spun different ways and different sources that they're going to cite as their facts.
Jon Foreman
#19. It is critical that we have a comprehensive energy plan to provide affordable and reliable supplies of energy so that our economy will not be dependent on foreign sources of energy.
Richard Burr
#20. Our beliefs about the sources of joy are frequently experienced as colored imaginations that captivate our hearts.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#21. The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.
Caspar David Friedrich
#22. Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion, more interesting than the inventions themselves.
George Polya
#23. It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.
Rachel Maddow
#24. Artists and religionists are never far apart, they go to the sources of revelation for what they choose to experience and what they report is the degree of their experiences. Intellect
wishes to arrange - intuition wishes to accept.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#25. We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe.
Neville Chamberlain
#26. One can often trace the sources of a brand personality-here it is the advertising, there the pack, somewhere else some physical element of the product. Of course, the personality is clearest and strongest when all the elements are consistent.
Stephen King
#27. My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition.
Audre Lorde
#28. Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
Mortimer Adler
#29. How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of considerable interest
Albert Bandura
#30. There are only two sources of competitive advantage: the ability to learn more about our customers faster than the competition and the ability to turn that learning into action faster than the competition.
Jack Welch
#31. The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error lurk where they are least expected, and that they may escape the notice of the most experienced and conscientious worker.
John William Strutt
#32. On energy, we should be exploring for domestic sources of energy.
Marsha Blackburn
#33. I was especially fond of animals, and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets. With these I spent most of my time, and never was so happy as when feeding and caressing them.This peculiarity of character grew with my growth, I derived from it one of my principal sources of pleasure.
Edgar Allan Poe
#34. Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).
Immanuel Kant
#35. The parts of the body are the closest and most immediate things in our physical environment, and are thus most deeply imprinted in our cognition, so it is no wonder that body-parts are the sources of terms for all kinds of more abstract concepts in so many languages.
Guy Deutscher
#36. What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.
Geraldine Ferraro
#37. Many tribal peoples consider illness to be one of the most reliable sources of revelation. Many of the practices that traditional religions impose upon seekers-abstinence, isolation, stillness-are practices that illness imposes upon us, so it is in a sense a cocoon that allows revelation to unfold.
Kat Duff
#38. To create what it does, Hollywood has to draw young people, often of unstable temperment, from all over the world. It plunges them into exacting work
surrounds them with a sensuous life
and cuts them off from the normal sources of living.
Max Lerner
#39. Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.
Samuel P. Huntington
#40. Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy.
Virgil Goode
#41. The Chinese have done some extraordinary things in terms of the investments they've made in alternative sources of energy.
Henry Paulson
#42. For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries.
Gary Weiss
#43. Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game is effectively over.
Kenneth Fisher
#44. How we understand our own selves and how we work with our DNA software has implications that will affect everything from vaccine development to new approaches to antibiotics, new sources of food, new sources of chemicals, even potentially new sources of energy.
Craig Venter
#45. Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.
Murray Gell-Mann
#46. The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#47. You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
Fran Tarkenton
#48. Love, gratitude, compassion, and kindness are the sources of all enduring, pure happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#49. Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.
Clayton M Christensen
#50. It is probably better that the world knows only the result, not the conditions under which it was achieved; because knowledge of the artist's sources of inspiration might bewilder them, drive them away and in that way nullify the effect of the excellent work.
Thomas Mann
#51. These two "speech communities," as it were, are Hurston's great sources of inspiration not only in her novels but also in her autobiography.
Zora Neale Hurston
#52. you sugar cravings is seeking other sources of pleasure. It's not the sweet that our brain urges us to give it - it's satisfaction.
Dylan McGregor
#53. It is said that there are three sources of evil, "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"; but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.
Peter Kreeft
#54. I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
David Rockefeller
#55. One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.
Margaret Wertheim
#56. Friends are like Lighthouses, with the sources of light coming from their hearts.
Tom Baker
#57. Smart development invests in insulation, efficient cars, and ever-renewed sources of energy. Dumb growth crashes around looking for more oil.
Donella Meadows
#58. I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Anais Nin
#59. How will history judge us? Will our tales be sources of inspiration, or wells of caution?
Yunus D. Saleh
#60. Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation ... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.
Anais Nin
#61. We are against war and the sources of war.
We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.
Muriel Rukeyser
#62. Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
#63. A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.
Rudolf Flesch
#64. The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.
Cofer Black
#65. History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
Victor Davis Hanson
#67. Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#68. My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process.
John M. McHugh
#69. But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
George Eliot
#70. Teeth actually turn out to be one of a couple of good sources of ancient DNA. The teeth, actually the enamel, is quite good at preserving the DNA, so it is a bit of time capsule so to speak.
Hendrik Poinar
#71. And I saw then again, and for good, what I had always been afraid to see, and had pretended not to see in him: that he was a woman as well as a man. Any need to explain the sources of that fear vanished with the fear; what I was left with was, at last, acceptance of him as he was.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#72. This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness.
Gretchen Rubin
#73. Well, we look for sources of inspiration in pop culture in general. It's very important for us that, when it comes to storytelling, we don't look into other video games. We'd rather look into other mediums
movies, television series and books
for sources of inspiration.
Sam Lake
#74. Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime we must not waste what we have, but must leave as much as possible for coming generations.
Svante Arrhenius
#75. As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression,we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world.
Anna Halprin
#76. To acknowledge the existence of other people is also to acknowledge that they are not reliable sources of safety or comfort.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#77. I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all behaviors somewhere within yourself.
Luc Sante
#78. The science of happiness lies in controlling our thought and getting thought from sources of healthy life.
Prentice Mulford
#79. For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New Testament.
Elaine Pagels
#80. It is only when an actor feels that his inner and outer life on the stage is flowing naturally and normally, in the circumstances that surround him, that the deeper sources of his subconscious gently open, and from them come feelings we cannot always analyse.
Constantin Stanislavski
#81. Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.
Bertrand Russell
#82. Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers, they should be looking at the internal sources of employee dissatisfaction rather than trying to cover that up with this legal action.
Jonathan Sacks
#83. We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.
Allan Savory
#84. Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven.
Evan Esar
#85. Without the real enjoyment afforded by hospitality, mindless entertainment fills the vacuum, substituting fantasy for reality. The sophisticated replaces the simple, and the exotic and the expensive become the desirable sources of pleasure.
Mitchell Kalpakgian
#86. It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.
Lord Acton
#87. The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.
Noam Chomsky
#88. We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).
Ayn Rand
#89. Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition & observation are sources of knowledge.
Rudolf Steiner
#90. Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#91. Consciousness and awareness are the sources of all possibilities and infinite creativity.
Debasish Mridha
#92. The serious poet should seek to explore the 'sources' of these global nightmares-and to explore them not just in poetry, but in person. Poetry is a terminal activity, taking place out near the end of things.
John Berryman
#93. To be truly happy - a man must have sources of gladness which are not dependent on anything in this world. - J. C. Ryle
Randy Alcorn
#94. While it shows the gods as no better than the rest of us," she said, "at least, it shows them as no worse. See here the sources of human morality.
Roger Zelazny
#95. Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.
David Halberstam
#96. In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.
John Ruskin
#97. Carleton Coon of the University of Pennsylvania suggested that some modern races have different sources of origin, implying that some of us come from superior stock to others.
Bill Bryson
#98. As the economy is shifting, you need to have legitimate and creative sources of extra income. There are opportunities available that people have been using for years now.
Franklin Gillette
#99. I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there.
Hjalmar Branting
#100. I suggest we take our heads out of the tar sands and look up to see the sun. We don't own it, but it provides us all with great, endless value. So, too, the wind. These free, renewable sources of 'energy currency' are perfect partners to what we own together.
William McDonough
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