B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers - backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling: teacher colleges, textbook publishers, materials suppliers, et al. - have ensured that most of our children will not have an education, even though they may be thoroughly schooled.”
“By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part.”
“By preventing new conflicts, we avert the causes of radicalization and the risk of terrorist attacks in Europe, including in Germany.”
“By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.”
“By priming your subconscious mind you are allowing it to run in the background, and that way you are actually sending out positive thoughtforms from your subconscious in the waking state!”
Source: NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
“By prioritizing a holistic approach to diversity, companies can create a boardroom that truly reflects the multifaceted nature of their stakeholders and maximizes their potential for success.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“By prioritizing accessibility, educational institutions can do more than facilitating students with disabilities in achieving their academic and career goals; they can also play a role in spreading awareness and culture among all students.”
“By prioritizing fairness and transparency in enrolment and admissions, schools can provide equal opportunities for all aspiring students.”
“By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.”
“By proactively resolving relational issues without dodging or imposing, you may be able to defuse many clashes without dramas or externalities.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By processing information from the environment through the senses, the nervous system continually evaluates risk. I have coined the term neuroception to describe how neural circuits
distinguish whether situations or people are safe, dangerous, or life-threatening. Because of our heritage as a species, neuroception takes place in primitive parts of the brain, without our conscious awareness.”
Source: The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation
“By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something about everything; he knew a great deal about everything.”
“By prolonged and continued fellowship, the sheep who follow nearby enjoy the shepherd's presence and become his familiar companions. To those closest to him, he shares the choicest portions of the food he's gathered. These happy and content sheep are never in danger. Why? Because they are near the shepherd!”
Source: Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart: The Power of God's Restoration and Healing
“By promoting liberty abroad, we will build a safer world. By encouraging liberty at home, we will build a more hopeful America.”
“By properly going through hardships you can develop the qualities of the successful man that is in you”
“By protecting our children from adversity, have we made them deathly
afraid of it? By bolstering their self-esteem with false praise and a lack of
real-world consequences, have we made them less tolerant, more entitled,
and ignorant of their own character defects? By giving in to their every
desire, have we encouraged a new age of hedonism?”
Source: Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
“By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.”
Source: De rerum natura
“By providing a detailed breakdown of fees and payment schedules, the school fee structure empowers parents to make informed decisions about their child's education.”
“By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.”
Source: Books and Men
“By providing memorable social media customer service, companies not only create deeper connections with consumers, but they glean valuable insights on how to improve their products or services.”
“By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees.”
“By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.”
“By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.”
“By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.”
“By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.”
“By pumping up hyper-partisanship, our country (America) is playing with forces that can easily get out of control. We are giving purpose and cover - and sometimes a sense of purpose - to the crazy among us. We are encouraging a culture of extremism”
“By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.”
“By pursuing any one of our dreams, we can find fulfillment. We don't need to pursue them all.”
Source: Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts
“By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.”
“By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“By pursuing the things you love, all the other things in life will fall into order.”
“By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.”
“By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!”
“By pushing or forcing something upon people, you tend to push people further away.”
“By pushing people with one arm and loving them with the other, good leaders give their people the confidence needed to embrace change so they can grow faster and win bigger.”
Source: Your Year of Wonders: Embrace Change. Grow Faster. Win Bigger.
“By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the dead away into the "world of oblivion".”
“By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development. It pays infinite attention to the incubator-and it forgets the egg!”
Source: Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography
“By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.”
“By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character voices and funny noises the stories are still real and I put them all out there.”
“By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.”
“By putting pressure on myself to develop a great game, I had less pressure to win. These days, I tell kids that the way I grew up, it wasn't about winning. It was about playing well, about playing the "right" way. That approach helped me enjoy the game and develop mine to its maximum potential.”
Source: A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis
“By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first time.”
“By putting the gift of yearning for God into every human being's heart, God at the same time draws all people made in God's image to God's self and into their own true selves.”
“By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few.”
“By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant's nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips to expand, she is condemned ugly. Thus, the walls of the European harem separate youthful beauty from ugly maturity.”
“By putting these sort of lines around what ideas are proper or improper, we lose things.”
“By putting yourself in that intense form of stress, it makes regular life more peaceful.”
“By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.”
“By quieting externally, you gain the space internally. Life is a flow - it goes on. Good or bad, it will always change.”
Source: Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity