C Quotes
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“Consult duty not events.”
“Consult not your fears but your hopes
and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.”
“Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams.
Think not about what you have tried and failed,
But what is still possible for you to do.
To live is to change.”
“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”
“Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams.”
“Consult the Genius of the Place in all.”
“Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.”
“Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind.”
Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time
“Consult.../what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair.”
Source: Paradise lost
“Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.”
Source: Stronghold
“Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.”
“Consult your memory to know what matters most in your life.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.”
“Consultancy can be too short; or too long.”
“Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.”
Source: This is Eric Sevareid
“Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.”
“Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.”
“Consultants must find a niche and stick to it. If you can't find one, create one.”
“Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to encourage the remarks of others, will find himself every day embarrassed with new difficulties, and will harass his mind, in vain, with the hopeless labour of uniting heterogeneous ideas, digesting independent hints, and collecting into one point the several rays of borrowed light, emitted often with contrary directions.”
Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings
“Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you”
“Consulting is a hobby to guide you on the right path.”
“Consulting one’s own self as oracle.”
Source: Cake in the Blackbird Stew
“Consume all obstacles, heavenly fire, and give us now both hearts of flame and tongues of fire to preach Your reconciling word, for Jesus' sake”
Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon
“Consume less; share better.”
“Consume more than you need This is the dream Make you pauper Or make you queen I won't die lonely I'll have it all prearranged A grave that's deep and wide enough For me and all my mountains o'things”
“Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
(Sailing to Byzantium)”
Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
“Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.”
“Consume those 'popular' things, and you'll be part of the common, average pack. But that's ordinary. There's nothing wrong with ordinary. I just prefer to shoot for extraordinary.”
Source: The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success
“Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies.”
“Consumer Christianity is now normative. The consumer Christian is one who utilizes the grace of God for forgiveness and the services of the church for special occasions, but does not give his or her life and innermost thoughts, feelings, and intentions over to the kingdom of the heavens. Such Christians are not inwardly transformed and not committed to it.”
“Consumer confidence in an industry can be a very fragile thing. It only takes a few builders who promise but don't deliver, who cheat rather than perform, who delay until the warranty expires rather than repair, to damage the reputation of an entire industry.”
“Consumer culture is best supported by markets made up of sexual clones, men who want objects and women who want to be objects, and the object desired ever-changing, disposable, and dictated by the market. The beautiful object of consumer pornography has a built-in obsolescence, to ensure that as few men as possible will form a bond with one woman for years or for a lifetime, and to ensure that women's dissatisfaction with themselves will grow rather than diminish over time. Emotionally unstable relationships, high divorce rates, and a large population cast out into the sexual marketplace are good for business in a consumer economy. Beauty pornography is intent on making modern sex brutal and boring and only as deep as a mirror's mercury, anti-erotic for both men and women.”
Source: The Beauty Myth
“Consumer culture is contradiction in terms”
“Consumer electronics is a challenging one.”
“Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self dwells in the hearts of all," that is the Upanishads.”
“Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for special entities such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market.”
“Consumer habits have changed dramatically. People have gotten used to getting the news they want, when they want it, how they want it, and where they want it. And this change is here to stay. Despite all the dire reports about the state of the newspaper industry, we are actually in the middle of a golden age for news consumers who can surf the Net, use search engines, access the best stories from around the world, and be able to comment, interact, and form communities.”
“Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is presumably the object of the multibillion-dollar global advertising industry. Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.”
Source: Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy
“Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.”
“Consumer spending is now plunging at serious-recession rate ... even if the rescue now in train succeeds in unfreezing credit markets, the real economy has immense downward momentum. In addition to financial rescues, we need major stimulus programs.”
“Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to satisfy them. But the case cannot stand if it is the process of satisfying wants that create the wants.”
Source: The Essential Galbraith
“Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.”
“Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.”
“Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.”
“Consumerism has become a new religion, complete with its high priests at Which? and its fatwas against anyone with the temerity to try to sell anything at more than cost price ... It is a depressingly medieval outlook on economic life.”
“Consumerism has become our most potent ideology because it so contemptuously dismisses our natual human modes of trait display, and it keeps us too busy -working, shopping. and product displaying- to remember what we can signal without all the products.”
Source: Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
“Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down to eat.”
“Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no longer able to give a just value, which goes well beyond mere economic parameters. We should all remember, however, that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the the poor, the hungry!”
“Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.”
Source: Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
“Consumerism is not bad, but reckless and mindless consumerism is not just bad, but downright injurious to the health of not just the individual, but of the entire society.”