A Quotes
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“A mind virus is different in that there is no form to it; these are ideas placed in our heads when we are little. We get programmed by well-meaning people like our parents and their parents, our culture, religions and schools. We get conditioned to believe in our limitations and what's not possible.”
“A mind wanders, thoughts flee and memories fade. But tattoos, tattoos are forever. And if it is true to say that we carry ourselves with when we travel - then the body may very well be a beautiful canvas for the timeless lessons we learn and will learn when we travel.”
“A MIND WHICH CAN'T KEEP SILENT IS COUNTED AMONG THE SOUND MINDS”
“A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific inquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases which occur, has within itself an inexhaustible source of pure and exciting contemplations.”
“A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.”
Source: The Ways of Woman
“A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness.”
“A mind with something to prove is rarely the most rational one.”
Source: By the Feet of Men
“A mind without Christ is a reservoir filled with Crisis”
“A mind without hindsight is blind in its foresight.”
“A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.”
“A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.”
Source: Bendigo Shafter
“A mind, once formed, is never suited after,
One yet in growth will ever grateful be.
[Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen,
Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]”
“A MINDFUL GENIUS WON'T PREFER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.”
“A mindful leader looks at his being (witnessing consciousness or awareness) as the substratum on which he plays his leadership role. Sometimes he succeeds, sometimes he does not. Sometimes he is the manager, then he might become a follower. But his awareness remains unchanged.”
Source: Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One
“A Mindful nation is not the outcome of ball-full people.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“A mindset is an innate disposition governing how you expect people to behave (and not behave), what you are motivated to do (and not do), and why you do what you do (and the consequence if you do not).”
Source: The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself
“A mindset of abundance can only be guided and influenced, never forced.”
“A mindset of gratitude lifts the veil of bitterness and allows you to see beauty and possibility.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.”
“A mine is anonymous, a crude weapon. Partisans like using mines because of the peculiar nature of their struggle, which makes the landscape uncertain. The anarch is not tempted by them, if only because he is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself to having one inadequacy supplant another and a new regime triumph over the old one. In this sense, he is closer to the philistine; the baker whose chief concern is to bake good bread; the peasant, who works his plough while armies march across his fields.
The anarch is a forest rebel, the partisans are a collective. I have observed their quarrels as both a historian and a contemporary. Stuffy air, unclear ideas, lethal energy, which ultimately puts abdicated monarchs and retired generals back in the saddle – and they then show their gratitude by liquidating those selfsame partisans. I had to love certain ones, because they loved freedom, even though the cause did not deserve their sacrifice; this made me sad.
If I love freedom above all else, then any commitment becomes a metaphor, a symbol. This touches on the difference between the forest rebel and the partisan: this distinction is not qualitative but essential in nature. The anarch is closer to Being. The partisan moves within the social or national party structure, the anarch is outside of it. Of course, the anarch cannot elude the party structure, since he lives in society.
The difference will be obvious when I go to my forest shack while my Lebanese joins the partisans. I will then not only hold on to my essential freedom, but also gain its full and visible enjoyment. The Lebanese, by contrast, will shift only within society; he will become dependent on a different group, which will get an even tighter hold on him.
Naturally, I could just as well or just as badly serve the partisans rather than the Condor – a notion I have toyed with. Either way, I remain the same, inwardly untouched. It makes no difference that it is more dangerous siding with the partisans than with the tyrant; I love danger. But as a historian, I want danger to stand out sharply.
Murder and treason, pillage and fire, and vendetta are of scant interest for the historian; they render long stretches of history – say, Corsican – unfruitful. Tribal history becomes significant only when, as in the Teutoburger Wald, it manifests itself as world history. Then names and dates shine.
The partisan operates on the margins; he serves the great powers, which arm him with weapons and slogans. Soon after the victory, he becomes a nuisance. Should he decide to maintain the role of idealist, he is made to see reason.
In Eumeswil, where ideas vegetate, the process is even more wretched. As soon as a group has coalesced, ‘one of Twelve’ is bound to consider betrayal. He is then killed, often merely on suspicion. At the night bar, I heard the Domo mention such a case to the Condor.
‘He could have gotten off more cheaply with us,’ he commented. ‘Muddle heads – I’ll take the gangsters anytime: they know their business.’
I entered this in my notebook. In conclusion, I would like to repeat that I do not fancy myself as anything special for being an anarch. My emotions are no different from those of the average man. Perhaps I have pondered this relationship a bit more carefully and am conscious of a freedom to which ‘basically’ everybody is entitled – a freedom that more or less dictates his actions.”
Source: Eumeswil
“A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it.”
Source: Pictures under discussion
“A minha causa é a causa de nada.”
Source: The Ego and Its Own
“A minha inspiração não gosta de ter pessoas à volta. Quando alguém chega, ela desaparece.
(Compreendo, pensei, uma vez vi a felicidade a esconder-se atrás de um bolo.)”
Source: Assim, Mas Sem Ser Assim
“A minha memória interditada a tempos abriu mão de me auxiliar.”
Source: Asfixia
“A minha mãe escondia os sentimentos; talvez soubesse amar, não sei, mas não sabia nem dizê-lo nem mostrá-lo. Uma noite, eu fingia dormir, entrou sem fazer ruído. Acendeu a luz da mesinha de cabeceira e contemplou-me uns momentos. Teria gostado de abrir os olhos, deitar-lhe os braços ao pescoço, mas o amor é dar e receber, isso adivinhava sem que ninguém mo tivesse ensinado.”
Source: O Mundo Em Que Vivi
“A minha mãe pousou a mão sobre a minha. Sentir a sua mão nas costas da minha mão, o peso e o calor da sua mão, foi sentir que também eu gostava muito dela. Levantei a cabeça para a olhar e, nesse momento, sentimos tanta vontade de nos abraçarmos, porque soubemos mesmo que éramos duas pessoas a ser a mesma pessoa, porque soubemos que a beleza do amor que sentíamos, o afecto, era sentido exactamente da mesma maneira, com as mesmas formas, pelo outro. A minha mãe e eu sentíamos exactamente a mesma coisa quando nos olhámos a ser mãe e filho. E eu, como se descobrisse, senti toda força infinita do amor, que nunca muda, do amor que permanece igual depois de anos e anos.”
Source: Uma Casa na Escuridão
“A minha transcendência
É virar palavra.
Escrevo, pois:
Sublimo o corpo,
Metamorfo -
Liberto a alma.”
“A minha vida durante esses vinte e tal anos foi rio correndo, saltando, descendo montanhas, se espraiando nos vales, o rio rindo de si, da sua vida errante, do seu andar vagueante, o rio rindo farto, caudaloso, riomando, às vezes se apoucando nas suas miudezas, um fiozinho riando, riachando, o quase nonada, a se anular no seu corpo franzino, assim, corregando, a minha vida foi isso mesmo, o muito e pouco, a tempestade e a bonança, a vida não é o constante zizuezaguear? Mas, meu amigo, agora te conto esse rio correndo que sou eu, essas águas que não se cansam de parar, esse sempre em movimento em que vivo. Eu vou te contar meu vaguear com as minhas palavras , pensadas por mim mesmo, cavadas no chão movediço da memória.”
“A minha visão da inovação é simples: inovar é criar algo de novo e útil à sociedade, que se possa tornar num produto ou serviço melhor do que os outros, e que crie emprego e bem-estar para a população.”
Source: Liderar com as Pessoas
“A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away.”
“A minibar is a machine that makes everything expensive. When I take something out of the minibar, I always fathom that I'll go and replace it before they check it off, but they make that stuff impossible to replace. I go to the store and ask, 'Do you have coke in a glass harmonica ...Do you have individually wrapped cashews'”
“A minimal level of sportsman ethics afield is mandated by written law. Beyond that, say, when an action is legal but ethically questionable, or when (as Aldo Leopold long ago pointed out) no one is watching, hunter ethics is an individual responsibility. As the existentialists would have it, we determine our own honor minute by minute, action by action, one decision at a time.”
“A minimizing accelerator: removing duplicates”
Source: The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
“A minimum of two years in prison should be a prerequisite for going into politics.”
Source: The Thief and the Patriot
“A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.”
Source: Around the World in Eighty Days
“A minimum required standard to obtain a massage license is quite a different matter from a voluntary certification evidencing higher-level skills. Licensing standards should be set at a level sufficient to assure safe practice, but low enough to avoid screening out those individuals who choose to perform basic work”
“A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.”
“A minimum-wage law, a law that prevents employers and employees from entering into mutually beneficial economic exchanges, is as far from a free market or free enterprise as one can get. That's why it causes so much damage and destruction, especially to black teenagers and others whose labor, for one reason or another, is valued by employers at less than the government-established minimum wage.”
“A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery so the old women have to have it.”
“A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion; but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect.”
Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children
“A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher”
“A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.”
Source: Lake Wobegon Days
“A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.”
“A minister of Jesus Christ should not be regardless of his attitude. If he is the representative of Jesus Christ, his deportment, his attitude, his gestures, should be of that character which will not strike the beholder with disgust.”
“A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.”
“A minister, servant, or worker of the Lord Jesus is not a 'special' believer belonging to a 'special group.' According to New Testament revelation, every believer should be a minister, servant, or worker.”
Source: ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House
“A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who remains shut up in his office learns nothing.”
“A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.”
“A ministering angel shall my sister be.”
“A ministry doesn't have to be perfect for God to use and bless it.”