I Quotes
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“It is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.”
“It is crucial to understand that there are myriad interpretations of behavior. When you subscribe only to yours, you may begin to think that everyone else is wrong and thus limit your flexibility and possibility. Developing cultural awareness will make your diverse relationships easier and more productive.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“It is crucial to understand the difference between knowledge, which are facts and data, wisdom, which is your ability to judge and determine which aspects of your knowledge are applicable and useful to your life, and insight, which is the deepest level of knowing based on experience, and the most meaningful to your life and success.”
Source: The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
“It is crucial we also think beyond workers' rights to confront a broader and more fundamental set of questions: What is so great about work that sees society constantly trying to create more of it? Why, at the pinnacle of productive development, is there still thought to be need for everybody to work for most of the time? What is work for, and what else could we be doing in the future, were we no longer cornered into spending most of our time working? [ch.one]”
Source: The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work
“It is cruel and insensitive to interpret an affair as a symptom of sickness in the relationship, as it leaves the 'cheated-on' partner - who may already be feeling insecure - to wonder what is wrong with him Many people have sex outside their primary relationships for reasons that have nothing to do with any inadequacy in their partner or in the relationship.”
Source: The ethical slut: a guide to infinite sexual possibilities
“It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hope and resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so keenly, and which she will find more and more galling as she grows into the stronger and grander woman she is sure to be. If it were your son who for any cause was denied his right to have his opinion counted, you would compass sea and land to lift the ban from him.”
Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
“It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn.”
Source: An Instance of the Fingerpost
“It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.”
Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)
“It is cruel to hate others for being a different race. In fact, all racists —white, black, pink, or brown — are a threat to the human race.”
“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.”
Source: Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten
“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”
“It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.”
“It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.”
“It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.”
“It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.”
“It is culturally constructed, but not unnecessary. A crisis is a period in a person's life that lasts at least a year during which there is an unusual level of emotional instability, negativity, and crucially, major changes. This is important because right now, when you diagnose mental health problems, where you are in life doesn't really come into it. Psychologists are saying that it should.”
“It is culture that is the bully."
Orn Ald yos'Senchul to Theo Waitley, Saltation”
“It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.”
“It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.”
Source: The Secret Adversary (Diversion Classics)
“It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
“It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.”
Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
“It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind.”
Source: Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels
“It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.”
“It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.”
“It is curious how believable I can be when I criticize myself, how unconvincing when I give myself praise.”
Source: A Writer's Story: From Life to Fiction
“It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.”
Source: JULIAN
“It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.”
Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945
“It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.”
Source: The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance
“It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.”
Source: Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)
“It is curious how people go on believing that the musician knows less about what he is doing than those that judge him.”
“It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.”
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London
“It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.”
Source: The God of Small Things
“It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined. Over the years, as the memory of Sophie Mol ... slowly faded, the Loss of Sophie Mol grew robust and alive. It was always there. Like a fruit in season. Every season. As permanent as a government job.”
Source: The God of Small Things
“It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.”
Source: Fireside Travels
“It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is...”
“It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.”
Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays
“It is curious that a man's sense of humour is usually entirely in abeyance when matters of stern import engross him, while a woman's is usually at its keenest when tragedy is in the air.”
Source: The Fate of Fenella
“It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.”
“It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.”
“It is curious that I can't say who I am. That is to say, I know it all too well, but I can't say it. More than anything, I'm afraid to say it, because the moment I try to speak not only do I fail to express what I feel but what I feel slowly becomes what I say.”
Source: Near to the Wild Heart
“It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.”
“It is curious that people tend to regard government as a quasi-divine, selfless, Santa Claus organization. Government was constructed neither for ability nor for the exercise of loving care; government was built for the use of force and for necessarily demagogic appeals for votes. If individuals do not know their own interests in many cases, they are free to turn to private experts for guidance. It is absurd to say that they will be served better by a coercive, demagogic apparatus.”
Source: Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain
“It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!”
Source: Galloping with Sound - The Grand Cosmic Conspiracy
“It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it.”
Source: An Island Garden
“It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do; and judge of them from what they do, not from what they say. Hence they have one code of maxims for profession and another for practice, and make up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set of furniture for show and another for use.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan