E Quotes
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“Excessive severity misses its own aim.”
“Excessive sleep is a thief that steals your precious time, and it can derail you from destiny. As you sleep, do not neglect your dreams.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)
“Excessive submission to social authority is one of the biggest killers of innovation. Things that carry social authority can only ever be things that already exist as being popular and accepted. A good way to side-step the hypnotic cage that social authority traps us in is to explore areas that are not considered to be prestigious or valid. The most innovative of the popular musicians are always influenced partly by music genres that are unpopular. By finding the best aspects of those less popular genres and bringing them into play with the qualities of a more popular style of music, they are able to create a fresh sound that a mainstream audience is ready for.”
Source: The Artist's State of Mind: A Guide to Accessing the Flow State Through Mastery of Your Chosen Craft
“Excessive talking about our plans and dreams lessens our energy to do what is needed to achieve them.”
Source: All You Have Is Now: How Your Approach to the World Determines Your Destiny
“Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798
“Excessive thinking and more so attachment to thoughts dominate our daily activities. But why? The mind thinks. But you must not. It is a choice. Remember. You are not your thoughts.”
“Excessive, unmatched greed is the oxygen of every abusive, manipulative, destructive, narcissistic Machiavellian power players of today’s kakistocracy, kleptocracy, injustice, corruption, and impunity.
~ Angelica Hopes, Karmic Harvest Trilogy”
“Excessive use of rewards and punishments may lead to a focus on compliance rather than genuine learning, hindering students' intrinsic motivation and long-term growth.”
“Excessive wealth is a great problem masquerading as a great good.”
“Excessive wealth, like power, tends to corrupt. Even if the rich are not “idle rich”, even when they work harder than anyone else, they work differently, apply different standards, and are set apart from common humanity. They corrupt themselves by practising greed, and they corrupt the rest of society by provoking envy. Mr Bader drew the consequences of these insights and refused to become inordinately rich and thus made it possible to build a real community.”
Source: Small is Beautiful Economics as if People Mattered
“Excessive X is no better than poison for mind and body. Not only for ourselves, but also for those who look our way.
Moderation.”
“Excessively materialistic people need to swing to the more spiritual practices that will give them balance, and the very spacey mystical and spiritual types of people need to swing back to the material side to be in the center. The key is moderation and balance.”
Source: Hidden Dangers of Meditation and Yoga: How to Play with Your Sacred Fires Safely
“Excessively noisy and very quiet environments should be avoided, as they can produce biological problems.”
“Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves get from stealing copper wiring from isolated houses, that vandals got from tearing down Greek temples for the lead joints holding the marble blocks together, that shortsighted timber companies get from liquidating their forests. The standard to insist on is live value. What is something worth when it's working?”
“Exchange converts a good into a commodity, an object no longer intended
for the satisfaction of an individual need or brought into existence and
vanishing with that need. On the contrary, it is intended for society,
and its fate, now dependent on the laws which govern the social
circulation of goods, can be far more capricious than that of Odysseus;
for what is one-eyed Polyphemus compared with the argus-eyed customs
officials of Newport, or the fair Circe compared with the German meat
inspectors? It has become a commodity because its producers participate
in a specific social relationship in which they have to confront each
other as independent producers. Originally a natural, quite
unproblematic thing, a good comes to express a social relation, acquires
a social aspect. It is a product of labour, no longer merely a natural
quality but a social phenomenon. We must therefore discover the law
which governs this society as a producing and working community.
Individual labour now appears in a new aspect, as part of the total
labour force over which society disposes, and only from this point of
view does it appear as value-creating labour.”
Source: Finance Capital: A study in the latest phase of capitalist development
“Exchange every erupting thought for just one: the name of Jesus.”
Source: Flow Through Vessel: How to Master the Habit of Letting God Flow Through You
“Exchange, fair or unfair, always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.”
“Exchange ideas frequently.”
“Exchange is creation.”
“Exchange is thus accessible to analysis because it not only satisfies
individual needs, but is also a social necessity which makes individual
need its instrument while at the same time limiting its satisfaction.
For a need can be satisfied only to the extent that social necessity
will permit. It is of course a presupposition, for human society is
inconceivable without the satisfaction of individual needs. This does
not mean, however, that exchange is simply a function of individual
need, as indeed it would be in a collectivist economy, but that
individual needs are satisfied only to the extent that exchange allows
them to participate in the product of society. It is this participation
which determines exchange. The latter appears to be simply a
quantitative ratio between two things,[4] which is determined when
this quantity is determined. The quantity which is turned over in
exchange, however, counts only as a part of social production, which
itself is quantitatively determined by the labour time that society
assigns to it. Society is here conceived as an entity which employs its
collective labour power to produce the total output, while the
individual and his labour power count only as organs of that society. In
that role, the individual shares in the product to the extent that his
own labour power participates, on average, in the total labour power
(assuming the intensity and productivity of labour to be fixed). If he
works too slowly or if his work produces something useless (an otherwise
useful article would be considered useless if it constituted an excess
of goods in circulation), his labour power is scaled down to average
labour time, i.e. socially necessary labour time. The aggregate labour
time for the total product, once given, must therefore find expression
in exchange. In its simplest form, this happens when the quantitative
ratios between goods exchanged correspond to the quantitative ratios of
the socially necessary labour time expended in their production.
Commodities would in that case exchange at their values.”
Source: Finance Capital: A study in the latest phase of capitalist development
“Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.”
“Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.”
Source: Breaking the Worry Habit...Forever!: God's Plan for Lasting Peace of Mind
“Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to.' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling.”
“Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.”
“Exchanging blows generously, which is not uncommon in some other martial arts, is unthinkable in Shaolin philosophy, because a Shaolin disciple always assumes that an opponent is competent and able to inflict damage with just one blow.”
Source: The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu: The Secrets of Kung Fu for Self-Defense, Health, and Enlightenment
“Exchanging of unfriendly statements, rejecting any possibility of cooperation and interaction in combating terror, especially in Syria and so on and so forth. So it's not something that contributes to global stability and security.”
“Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.”
“Excitable boy, they all said, he killed and raped her and brought her home.”
“Excitable, easily distracted, sometimes vacant, prone to gloominess and also extreme euphoria; I can’t be generous with time, but I try to be generous with affection. I’m really lucky to be able to be in some of these situations and it feels really nice to be able to take people along with me for the ride. Oh, and I’m a pain in the ass as well.”
“Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.”
“Excited, on hearing your words o’ man, as you shattered in yourself with pain,that occupied somewhere between your spirit and success.
I can bring out a reflection for you to keep—the inspiration that wanders to communicate my presence in your visible soul. It can hold you like a tendril to you only until the wake.”
Source: The Bell Ringing Woman: A Blue Bell of Inspiration
“Excited with this new adventure, he arrived at the Toronto airport, experiencing snow for the first time . . . nothing but white snow all around him. He says that he didn’t even feel the cold because of his excitement.
Unfortunately, it didn’t take long before his eyes were opened to another cold reality…the snow wasn’t the only “white” surrounding him. It was the first time in his life that he felt the divisive impact of racism.”
Source: Audley Enough: A Portrait of Triumph and Recovery in the Face of Mania and Depression
“Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.”
“Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.”
Source: Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
“Excitement always leads to tears.”
Source: The God of Small Things
“Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole of existence. Yet we can break out of this shell and enter a new world.”
Source: The Dhammapada: (Classics of Indian Spirituality)
“Excitement and reward exist only outside your comfort zone. You'll experience neither of them until you make yourself do something you really don't want to do. So what is it that scares the hell out of you?”
“Excitement had her blood rushing through her veins and her heart beating wildly. That was it. All of it. He made her feel alive. Every second she was with him, no matter the emotion. She felt intensely alive.”
Source: Leopard's Run
“Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.”
“Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.”
“Excitement is simple: excitement is a situation, a single event. It mustn't be wrapped up in thoughts, similes, metaphors. A simile is a form of reflection, but excitement is of the moment when there is no time to reflect. Action can only be expressed by a subject, a verb and an object, perhaps rhythm -- little else. Even an adjective slows the pace or tranquilizes the nerve.”
“Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom.”
“Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.”
“Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your "passion" or your "bliss," I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement. This brings us full circle. The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?"”
“Excitement must lead to immediate action or you will lose the power of momentum. More dreams die because we fail to seize the moment. Do it now!”
“Excitement or energy is related to the experience itself, not to the object”
“Excitement quickens your body,
encouragement soothes your mind,
anticipation renews your heart,
and excitement revives your soul.
Amusement quickens your body,
satisfaction soothes your mind,
gratitude renews your heart,
and love revives your soul.
Comfort quickens your body,
peace soothes your mind,
laughter renews your heart,
and goodness revives your soul.
Exercise quickens your body,
reading soothes your mind,
prayer renews your heart,
and meditation revives your soul.
Pleasure quickens your body,
happiness soothes your mind,
joy renews your heart,
and love revives your soul.
Courage quickens your body,
faith soothes your mind,
hope renews your heart,
and God revives your soul.”
“Excitement radiates through your eyes, your face, your voice, your soul, and your whole personality.”
“Excitement spreads beneath when you lock your feet to the dancing beat,”