I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!”
“In Zukunft wird sich die Utopie beeilen müssen, wenn sie die Realität einholen will.”
“In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.”
Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“In “Curvy,” they are superhappy with their sizes. We help them dress fashionably. We say: It’s pointless for you to buy leggings, take this because this will look good on you. We help them choose. We don’t talk about diets because they don’t want to be on a diet, but it’s not a ghetto. Why should these women slim down? Many of the women who have a few extra kilos are especially beautiful and also more feminine.”
“In, 1950, at the age, 19 I dropped out of St. George William College in Montreal, as it then was, and sailed for England on the Franconia. Foolishly, no arrogantly, believing I could put Canada and its picayune problems behind me, never dreaming it would become the raw material of most of my fiction and non-fiction. Or that I would care so deeply about its surviving intact.”
“In-depth reporting is expensive. It is much cheaper to have people sit around or on remotes and talk about politics like it's baseball. But there is also a predetermined intent in terms of what is reported and how it is reported, and the degree to which a story is pushed. Both have bad effects.”
“In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search for new evidence. The mind's activity that is maintained by the debates about these works, is probably the source of the greatest joys given to man to experience on Earth.”
“Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none.”
Source: Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First
“Ina regular and constant employment the greatest result will always be gained by such a rate as allows a workman each day,or each week at the most, to recover all fatigue and recommence with an undiminished store of energy.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy
“Ina stood and shuffled over to the urn on the fireplace. Stroked it with a twisted finger. "How are we supposed to get more consecrated soil, now? Taxi drivers always look at you so strangely when you get in with a shovel and say, 'Take me to the nearest graveyard.”
Source: Close to the Bone
“Ina the Viking was out in her potato patch waving at him like some idiot. Some people thought life was just the spiffiest thing that ever happened.”
Source: The Water Museum
“Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.”
“Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.”
Source: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
“Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—-to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.”
Source: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
“Inability to deal with a different ideology than one's own is the biggest disability a human can posses.”
“Inability to distinguish doctrine is spreading far and wide, and so long as the preacher is "clever" and "earnest," hundreds seem to think it must be all right, and call you dreadfully "narrow and uncharitable" if you hint that he is unsound!”
Source: HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS
“Inability To Get People To Love Them Is Due To Their Own Lack Of Self-Love”.”
“Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail.”
“Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.”
“Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.”
“Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.”
“Inaccrochable - A picture a painter paints and then he cannot hang it when he has a show and nobody will buy it because they cannot hang it either. -said by Gertrude Stein”
Source: A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
“Inaccurate market research always leads to a business wipe-out.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.”
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you
want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.”
Source: How to enjoy your life and your job
“Inaction counted as a choice.”
Source: Velocity: A Novel
“Inaction creates nothing. Action creates success.”
“Inaction driven by the belief that we have no control creates a breeding ground for unaccountability. Believing this can excuse us from making proactive decisions, we tend to shirk responsibilities, resulting in a dangerous cycle of unaccountability as we fail to take responsibility for the outcomes we can influence, thus we we attribute our inaction to external factors rather than our own choices. By not recognizing the control we do have, we passively allow life to happen to us rather than actively shaping our destinies.”
“Inaction driven by the belief that we have no control creates a breeding ground for unaccountability. Believing this can excuse us from making proactive decisions, we tend to shirk responsibilities, resulting in a dangerous cycle of unaccountability as we fail to take responsibility for the outcomes we can influence, we attribute our inaction to external factors rather than our own choices. By not recognizing the control we do have, we passively allow life to happen to us rather than actively shaping our destinies.”
“Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death.”
“Inaction is just a sign of the lack of clarity”
Source: Clarity is Power: How to Stop Comparing and Step Into Your Personal Authority
“Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.”
“Inaction is the biggest failure”
“Inaction is the worst action of human beings!”
“Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.”
“Inaction may be the biggest form of action.”
“Inaction multiplies sorrow, and if one wants to beat sorrow, one must go out and get busy”
Source: Porus : In the Shadow of Betrayals
“Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.”
Source: Codex Leicester: a masterpiece of science
“Inaction takes toll of your knowledge and reason too. Knowing what to do is one thing and implementing it to weed out your flaws is altogether a different
ball game.”
“Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.”
Source: Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time
“Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.”
“Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.”
“Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.”
“Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.”
“Inactives-those whose feet are not placed on the path which leads to eternal life.”
“Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb”
Source: Selected works on the art of writing
“Inactivity is the beginning of all vice.”
“Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.”
“Inactivity is the killer and, remember, it's never too late.”