A Quotes
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“At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.”
“At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.”
“At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.”
Source: In Praise of Flattery
“At its best, life is completely unpredictable.”
“At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.”
Source: The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
“At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.”
Source: The Abundance
“At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the patience of St. Francis and the will of Patton. At its worst, the Open eradicates the difference in ability between a Tom Purtzer and a Tom Watson and throws both in the same jail of high rough and high risk shots. This is the disturbing tendency in the Opens of the seventies and eighties, one which worries everyone in golf.”
“At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.”
Source: Arthur Frommer's New World of Travel
“At its core, addiction arises for two main reasons: an attempt to dull pain (whether physical, emotional, or psychological) and an attempt to fill a void (a sense that something is missing, broken, or incomplete).”
Source: Consciousness Rising
“At its core, Agile is a mindset.”
Source: Digital Master
“At its core, classroom management is about empowering students to take ownership of their learning journey, fostering independence, and cultivating a community of learners who support and encourage each other.”
“At its core, Compassionate AI represents the machine's independent evolution of empathy, seamlessly weaving compassion into its problem-solving fabric. This autonomous compassion extends beyond efficiency, aiming to uplift humanity and society at large.”
Source: Compassionate Artificial Superintelligence AI 5.0
“At its core, educational technology integration is about leveraging the power of technology to create dynamic, interactive, and student-centered learning experiences that prepare students for success in the digital age.”
“At its core, neoliberalism has sought to destroy community, and so community responses to government or economic policies pose the greatest threat.”
Source: Take Back The Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age
“At its core, neurodivergence simply means your brain works differently than what's considered typical. Think of it like this: if neurotypical brains run on one operating system, yours runs on another. Neither is better or worse. They're just different. And that difference? It's not a bug in your code. It's a feature.”
Source: The Therapist's Handbook for Neurodivergent People: A NeuroFlex ACT Guide for Living Fully with ADHD, Autism, OCD, and a Neurodivergent Life
“At its core, quality education empowers individuals to realize their full potential, contribute meaningfully to society, and navigate challenges with resilience and adaptability.”
“At its core, sinfulness is selfishness. It's enthroning yourself - your desires, your needs, your plans - above all else. You may still seek God, but you don't seek Him first. You seek Him second or third or seventh. You may sing "Jesus at the center of it all," but what you really want is for people to bow down to you as you bow down to Christ. It's a subtle form of selfishness that masquerades as spirituality, but it's not Christ-centric. It's me-centric. It's less about us serving His purposes and more about Him serving our purposes.”
Source: All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
“At its core, soul searching is a return to the center of your being. Quite literally, it is a journey to find your Soul or True Nature; it is a spiritual path. And usually, it marks the beginning of the spiritual awakening journey.”
“At its core, Stoicism, like the sturdy oak tree, stands firm amidst the torrential downpour of life’s distractions. It teaches us that while we may not command the winds to change, we possess the power to adjust our sails, to guide our minds through the tumultuous sea of life’s happenings.”
Source: The Power of the Present: A Stoic's Guide to Unyielding Focus
“At its core, the collection is built around a very wise line from a Beatles song: I want to hold your hand. I want to hold your hand with no further expectations. I want to hold your hand instead of telling you I understand when I don’t. I want to hold your hand although we don’t always get along. I want to hold your hand despite the calluses, scratches, and scars that get in the way. I want to hold your hand knowing I’ll have to let it go one day.”
Source: We Were Always Eating Expired Things
“At its core, the spiritual awakening process is the Soul’s cry for freedom. If you listen to its call, your life will be transformed into something meaningful and significant. On the other hand, if you refuse its call, your life may feel like an empty graveyard.”
Source: The Spiritual Awakening Process
“At its core, this book is a call to action. It is a heartfelt plea for us to see one another not as strangers, but as fellow travelers on this unpredictable journey we call life.”
Source: A Story About Acceptance
“At its core, transformative teaching empowers students to not only solve problems but also to question the status quo and envision new possibilities.”
“At its core Twitter is about sharing, and I think that in life we never feel better or more energized than when we're giving to someone else.”
“At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements.”
“At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency, designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions all good things”
“At its core, health is simple: eat the right amount for your body, don't ingest chemicals or fake foods, and move more.”
“At its core, I believe leadership is about instilling confidence in others.”
Source: Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life Without Losing Its Soul
“At its core, I don't view Facebook as a social network. I think it could become the driver's license of the Internet. And beyond that, it can become the pipes and the plumbing upon what most of the Internet is built. I think it's very well positioned.”
“At its core, meditation is about touching the spiritual essence that exists within us all.
Our spiritual essence is not something that we create through meditation it's already there,
deep within, behind all the barriers, patiently waiting for us to recognize it.”
“At its deepest level, suffering is a call to conversion by God (18).”
Source: Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us
“At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.”
“At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.”
“At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this: ‘Here in the face of power we will sit and create a new society, in which you do count.’”
“At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.”
“At its fundamental nature, a final judgment that leads a person into marriage is not merely love, but a commitment to love a person forevermore, even when extenuating circumstances make it virtually impossible to continue extending untarnished and undiminished love. Marriage is a fundamental decision, a vow never to stop loving another person, never to leave a relationship irrespective of what life entails.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“At its fundamentally flawed core, the aim of almost any learning program is to help us become who we are not.”
“At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution.”
“At its heart, ACT isn’t about getting rid of difficult thoughts, feelings, or sensations; it’s about learning how to live well with them.”
Source: The Therapist's Handbook for Neurodivergent People: A NeuroFlex ACT Guide for Living Fully with ADHD, Autism, OCD, and a Neurodivergent Life
“At its heart, AI isn't just about codes, algorithms, or cutting-edge technology. It's a reflection of our societal values and our collective aspirations. And in a world of diversity, our AI solutions must echo the universal chant of inclusivity, ensuring no one is left behind in this techno-logical renaissance.”
Source: AI Horizons: Shaping a Better Future Through Responsible Innovation and Human Collaboration
“At its heart, AI isn't just about codes, algorithms, or cutting-edge technology. It's a reflection of our societal values and our collective aspirations. And in a world of diversity, our AI solutions must echo the universal chant of inclusivity, ensuring no one is left behind in this technological renaissance.”
Source: AI Horizons: Shaping a Better Future Through Responsible Innovation and Human Collaboration
“At its heart, civility is the disposition of those who understand that we live together to flourish together—that the wellbeing of our neighbor is bound to our own, and that we have a duty to one another and to the common good.”
Source: Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It
“At its heart, clutter is a lack of peace.”
Source: Clutter Free: Quick and Easy Steps to Simplifying Your Space
“At its heart, dance is an extension of your soul braided into the music; it’s not a bunch of steps to be memorized. Everyone can dance.”
Source: Dance of the Heart
“At its heart, socialism is about the creation of a new society, built from the bottom up, through the struggles of ordinary working people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice—one that eliminates profit and power as the prime goals of life, and instead organizes our world around the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom.”
Source: The Case for Socialism
“At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives mean people a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue.”
“At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.”
Source: The Age of American Unreason
“At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.”
“At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.”
“At its heart, the quest that trans people are on is to have the same thing that straight — and gay — people have: the ability to wake up in the morning and be ourselves, without permission, without apology. Our lives should not be defined by wigs, or surgery, or which bathroom we use. Our lives should be defined by our identities, and the truth we bear in our hearts.”