I Quotes
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“In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.”
“In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it.”
Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
“In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn't mean you give up your intention to create your desire...and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.”
“In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.”
“In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.”
Source: Modes of Thought
“In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.”
“In order to address world economic imbalances, countries around the world should make joint efforts to adjust their economic structure.”
“In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and inactions) on yourself and others. Although we are always stumbling upon new knowledge that shifts our choices and life direction, bringing conscious inquiry to life means that we continually ask questions that lead us to the information we need to make thoughtful decisions. Asking questions is liberating because we develop great understanding and discover more choices with our new knowledge”
Source: Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life
“In order to always treat others, as we would wish to be treated ourselves, we have to learn about each other. Not just relying on an op-ed piece we may have read here, or a half-remembered interview on the television program there that happens to chime with our own views.”
“In order to answer the question “Where am I going?” one needs to work for self-improvement, to possess decisiveness, to have a will to win and dedication to achieve the goal at all cost”
“In order to answer the question “Where am I going?” you need to not understand your mission, but also work at self-improvement”
“In order to apologize—really apologize, and not just utter some words—for something one has done or failed to do, one has not only to acknowledge responsibility for but express sincere sorrow and regret over this action or inaction. One can apologize only for acts for which one has no excuse. If one has an excuse, there is nothing to apologize for, even if there is something to feel sorry about ('I'm sorry that you are hurt,' even 'I'm sorry that my actions hurt you,' is quite different from 'I'm sorry that I hurt you'). A genuine apology thus involves a rather raw exposure of the apologizer: Having done the deed, one now not only reiterates having done it, but strips away any suggestion that there are extenuating circumstances that could relieve one of blame; it must be clear that he regrets what he has done and feels sorrow over what he was wrought. He doesn't just wish things were otherwise; he fully acknowledges his role in bringing them to this sorry state.”
Source: Repair: The Impulse to Restore in a Fragile World
“In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable.”
“In order to appreciate and respect diversity we must first recognize and embrace our humanity.”
“In order to appreciate the good, we must have evil…but that does not mean we must comply with it.”
“In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.”
“In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.”
Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document
“In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with.”
“In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.”
Source: Cuatro cuartetos: Precedido por La roca y Asesinato en la Catedral
“In order to arrive there,
To arrive where you are,
to get from where you are not,
You must go by a way
wherein there is no ecstasy.
In order to arrive at what
you do not know
You must go by a way
which is the way of ignorance.
In order to possess what
you do not possess
You must go by the way of
dispossession.
In order to arrive at what
you are not
You must go through the
way in which you are not.
And what you do not
know is the only thing
you know
And what you own is what
you do not own.
And where you are is
where you are not.’
-T.S. Eliot
Four Quartets”
Source: The Art of Ritual: Creating and Performing Ceremonies for Growth and Change
“In order to arrive to a more realistic view of society, it must be recognized that there are individual differences that cannot be eradicated by the most rigid curriculum, and that various individuals will choose different educational curricula if allowed to do so.”
Source: Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science
“In order to arrive you must follow the signs. God inscribed on the world the path that each man must follow. It is just a matter of reading the inscription He wrote for you.”
“In order to ask with real intent or to act with full purpose of heart, we must always make an accompanying commitment.”
“In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.”
Source: Command Of The Air
“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.”
“In order to attract and maintain romantic and spiritual partnerships, you must be what it is that you're seeking. That is, you always need to put forth what you want to attract.”
“In order to attract us, the Lord grants us many graces that we believe can easily obtain Heaven for us. We do not know, however, that in order to grow, we need hard bread: the cross, humiliation, trials and denials.”
“In order to avoid any problem and to put it to rest, I will forever be known as Hillary Rodham Clinton.”
“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.”
“In order to avoid believing in just one God we are now asked to believe in an infinite number of universes, all of them unobservable just because they are not part of ours. The principle of inference seems to be not Occam's Razor but Occam's Beard: "Multiply entities unnecessarily.”
Source: What We Can't Not Know: A Guide
“In order to avoid contention, never contradict anyone, except in case of sin or some danger to a neighbor; and when necessary to contradict others, and to oppose your opinion to theirs, do it with so much mildness and tact, as not to appear to do violence to their mind, for nothing is ever gained by taking up things with excessive warmth and hastiness.”
“In order to avoid egotism, a lot of us go way overboard in the other direction. We shrink from ever declaring that we have any virtue, any excellency, any special gifts, lest we be accused of boasting. And so we fall into that opposite pit from egotism, namely, ingratitude.”
Source: What Color is Your Parachute?
“In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to keep the story moving, I needed to distance myself as much as I could from the characters, to try to get to a point where I could view them objectively.”
“In order to avoid the deafening of conspecifics, some bats employ a jamming avoidance response, rapidly shifting frequencies or flying silent when foraging near conspecifics. Because jamming is a problem facing any active emission sensory system, it is perhaps not surprising (though no less amazing) that similar jamming avoidance responses are deployed by weakly electric fish. The speed of sound is so fast in water that it makes it difficult for echolocating whales to exploit similar Doppler effects. However, the fact that acoustic emissions propagate much farther and faster in the water medium means that there is less attenuation of ultrasound in water, and thus that echolocation can be used for broader-scale 'visual' sweeping of the undersea environment.
These constraints and trade-offs must be resolved by all acoustic ISMs, on Earth and beyond. There are equally universal anatomical and metabolic constraints on the evolvability of echolocation that explain why it is 'harder' to evolve than vision. First, as noted earlier, a powerful sound-production capacity, such as the lungs of tetrapods, is required to produce high-frequency emissions capable of supporting high-resolution acoustic imaging. Second, the costs of echolocation are high, which may limit acoustic imaging to organisms with high-metabolisms, such as mammals and birds. The metabolic rates of bats during echolocation, for instance, are up to five times greater than they are at rest. These costs have been offset in bats through the evolutionarily ingenious coupling of sound emission to wing-beat cycle, which functions as a single unit of biomechanical and metabolic efficiency. Sound emission is coupled with the upstroke phase of the wing-beat cycle, coinciding with contraction of abdominal muscles and pressure on the diaphragm. This significantly reduces the price of high-intensity pulse emission, making it nearly costless. It is also why, as any careful crepuscular observer may have noticed, bats spend hardly any time gliding (which is otherwise a more efficient means of flight).”
Source: Contingency and Convergence: Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind
“In order to avoid the tragic case of murdering one’s own husband, Xiao YuAn pressed his hands against Yan HeQing’s shoulders, and shook him a few times: “Yan-ge! Hello! Daxiongdi! Baobei, dear! Darling! Husband! Hubby! Please wake up, I don’t want to be fucked to death, alright?”
Source: 穿成囚禁男主的反派要如何活命 How to Survive As a Villain
“In order to avoid this bitter end, we would all have to be born again, and born with the knowledge of alternatives. Even then?”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“In order to be a deliverer you need to make a decision to be baptized into the nation”
“In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.”
“In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.”
“In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.”
“In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.”
“In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.”
“In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.”
“In order to be a Kingdom Builder, you must first have compassion for people.”
“In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence.”
“In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence. Hence, the supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.”
“In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.”
“In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how I keep writing them.”
“In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how many square miles are in Idaho, you don't need to know what is the chemical makeup of chemistry, or of blood or water. Know what you know and care about the person, care about what you know and care about the person you're sharing with.”
“In order to be a part of the totalitarian mind-set, it is not necessary to wear a uniform or carry a club or a whip. It is only necessary to wish for your own subjection, and to delight in the subjection of others.”
Source: God is Not Great