B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“By close-ups of the things around us, by focusing on hidden details of familiar objects, by exploring commonplace milieus under the ingenious guidance of the camera, the film, on the one hand, extends our comprehension of the necessities which rule our lives; on the other hand, it manages to assure us of an immense and unexpected field of action.”
“By closely supervising our infants, by allowing them to do what they are capable of, by restraining ourselves from rescuing them too often, by waiting and waiting and waiting, by giving minimal help when they really need it, we allow our infants to learn and grow at their own time and in their own way. I believe that, no matter how much and how fast the world changes, a well-grounded, competent, and confident person is best equipped to adapt to it. This is our goal.”
“By closing all those fatal blindspots, and organization can be well prepared to effectively and efficiently absorb and accept changes in all its forms.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“By college, I had a really grand, preposterous vision of myself as becoming a writer, but I don't think I had the discipline or the patience - or the ability or the humility. It took 20 years to acquire those things.”
“By combining certain elements of technique which ignite each other I could shit the levels of perception, time-frame structures and systems of rythm which would give my songs a brighter countenance, call them up from the grave [...] It was like parts of my psyche were being communicated to by angels. There was a big fire in the fireplace and the wind was making it roar.”
Source: Chronicles, Volume One
“By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.”
“By combining supply chains, we maximize space utilized per vehicle, we streamline routes, we remove waste from the system, we do more in less time, and we provide superior value to the businesses in the network.”
“By combining the strength of courage and tenacity of curiosity, you've established a new way forward. Feel your power!”
Source: The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital
“By coming forward and sharing your story, you don't know the countless lives you change.”
“By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden.”
“By coming to kill me?” He almost smiles. He drops my wrists and instead wraps his free hand around my waist, pulling me close. And then, a whisper against my ear: “This might be my favorite way to die.”
Source: Defy Me
“By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy”
“By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.”
Source: What Is Man? And Other Essays
“By common consent of the nations, gold and silver are the only true measure of value. They are the necessary regulators of trade. I have myself no more doubt that these metals were prepared by the Almighty for this very purpose, than I have that iron and coal were prepared for the purposes in which they are being used.”
Source: Men and Measures of Half a Century; Sketches and Comments
“By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.”
Source: Literary and historical miscellanies
“By community I mean that community you have a special vision for, that only you see, that no one else in a room sees. That special community in pain, that through a pain you've suffered, you're able to have that vision, that super-ray vision.”
“By comparing the defined target with actual results, the team can determine if its hypothesis was proven and make appropriate adjustments if it wasn't”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we diverged from our common ancestor.”
“By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.”
“By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.”
Source: Rotunda: a selection from the works of Aldous Huxley
“By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and convenience - if they did they would live elsewhere.”
“By comparison with our ideas of liberation, emancipation and individual autonomy, which exhaust themselves chasing their own shadows, how much more subtle, and proud at the same time, is the idea, which still survives in oriental wisdom, that someone else has control over your life, is planning it, determining it, satisfying it, according to the terms of an electoral pact by which you agree to stand down, when things are going against you, from something which, in any case, does not belong to you and which it is much more pleasant to enjoy without constantly having to take responsibility for it at every waking moment. There is nothing to prevent you, in return, from looking after someone else’s life—something people are often more skilled at than looking after their own—and so on, from one person to the next, with each of us being relieved of the burden of living, truly free and no longer exposed to their own madness, but only to the ritual or romantic intervention of the other in the process of their own life.
The ultimate achievement is to live beyond the end, by any means whatever.”
Source: Cool memories
“By compassion one can be brave.”
“By compassion we heal our life and the life of others.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.”
Source: Religio Medici
“By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom of it Chekhov at last found his faith. And this faith turned out to be faith in man, in the power of human progress. And man became his god.”
“By computerizing health records, we can avoid dangerous medical mistakes, reduce costs, and improve care”
“By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.”
“By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.”
“By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.”
Source: Influence: science and practice
“By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.”
“By confusing strategy with tactics and mixing up “what” and “how”, we may have a hard time staying on point. ”What” we want, on the one hand, and “how” we want to achieve it, on the other, needs a careful reading and a singular approach. (“When the bar is set too high”)”
“By connecting with one's Divine Self, Carol Whitaker has captured the essence of transformation from within. Like a diet for the mind, Ridiculously Happy! guides you on a spiritual journey allowing you to harness the power of the mind, body and spirit to achieve a level of mental and physical wellness one may not have thought possible. I'm a big fan of energy therapy and love that Carol shares the EFT tapping technique which anyone can quickly and easily use to find peace and healing in their lives. This book is a must have!”
“By connecting with the present we turn our attention inward, away from all the chaos and activity, and experience our eternal, unbounded nature.”
“By connecting your inner child to your internal being, you bring out the hero in you that is inside all of us.”
Source: Inner Peace Outer Abundance
“By consciously deciding how you will live the rest of your life, you can create a life that is extraordinary.”
“By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.”
Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“By consciously seeking enlightenment, you will progress quickly, receiving the rewards of ever-greater enjoyment, peace, success, good fortune, and well-being.”
Source: I Ching Life: Becoming Your Authentic Self
“By consciously shifting our focus from what we fear to what we wish for, we activate a process of neuroplasticity. Our brain reorganizes itself to better align its structures and functions with these new priorities.”
Source: Words of the Shaman: 50 Quotes from Paching Hoé Lambaiho
“By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for egoism, and it found its way at once into everyone's mouth, although it is utterly devoid of meaning, since it points to nothing that ever existed in mankind; This hybrid or rather this degenerate form of hedonism served powerfully to invest collectivism's principles with a specious moral sanction, and collectivists naturally made the most of it.”
“By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.”
Source: Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition
“By considering the context of the negotiation, the relationships involved, and your alternatives away from the table, you will become adept at identifying when to negotiate, when to accept a deal without negotiating, and when to simply walk away.”
Source: Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond
“By constant dripping, water hollows stone,
A signet-ring from use alone grows thin,
And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.”
“By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.”
“By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
“By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.”
Source: The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi
“By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.”
Source: The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think
“By construction, the world of big data is siloed and segmented and segregated so that successful people, like myself - technologists, well-educated white people, for the most part - benefit from big data, and it's the people on the other side of the economic spectrum, especially people of color, who suffer from it. They suffer from it individually, at different times, at different moments. They never get a clear explanation of what actually happened to them because all these scores are secret and sometimes they don't even know they're being scored.”
“By contemplating the full spectrum of scenarios of the coming technological singularities many can place their bets in favor of the Cybernetic Singularity which is the surest path to cybernetic immortality and engineered godhood as opposed to the AI Singularity when Homo sapiens is hastily retired as a senescent parent. This meta-system transition from the networked Global Brain to the Gaian Mind is all about evolution of our own individual minds, it’s all about our own Self-Transcendence.”
Source: The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution
“By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be the last time we do it, and this recognition can invest the things we do with a significance and intensity that would otherwise be absent. We will no longer sleepwalk through our life.”