I Quotes
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“It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.”
“It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.”
“It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.”
“It is not so much the United States that is trying to push the European Union in one direction or another, it is developing nations as a whole that are pushing the United States and Europe to open their markets a little more.”
“It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.”
“It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.”
“It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus”
“It is not so much what we get out of life as what we put into it that determines how large our returns of happiness shall be. The triumphant life is to be achieved through service. But it must be free and not compulsory. . . . There is a place where the path of duty suddenly becomes the path of beauty.”
“It is not so much what we know that is important, as what we are and what we do.”
“It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.”
“It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.”
Source: The Importance of Living
“It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.”
Source: Wonderwater (Alice Offshore)
“It is not so much WHERE you live, as HOW you live, and whether good flows from you through your neighborhood”
“It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.”
“It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way.”
“It is not society's responsibility to alter the world to our liking, if we disagree with something then we must figure out a rational way to change it; demanding the world must change to match our desires is a rant not moral bravery.”
“It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.”
Source: The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two
“It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.”
“It is not someone's fault if they succeeded, it is someone's fault if they failed.”
“It is not something I earned or acquired or bought (the ability to pitch). It is a gift. It is something that was given to me - just like the color of my skin.”
“It is not something I must do but something I want to do.”
“It is not something we often find out; but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary.”
Source: Flash of the Sun
“It is not special to be enlightened, just different. An enlightened person is someone who has dedicated not just this lifetime but thousands of lifetimes to becoming awareness.”
“It is not special to be special, it's special to be ordinary”
“It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination....Of what use are speech sounds and tools without an inspiration toward perfectibility, without a sense that we can create or construct a history.”
“It is not speed that matters, it's persistence.”
Source: The Film Testament
“It is not strange that a synoptic writer reports the saying: 'No man knoweth the Father but the Son.' The passage as it stands reported in Matthew may be colored by later theology, but there is a nucleus of absolute truth hidden in the saying. There is no other way to know God but this way of inner love-experience.”
Source: The Inner Life
“It is not strange that men of note and learning, attracted by the wealth of symbolism on Masonry, as well as by its spirit of fraternity perhaps, also by its secrecy began at an early date to ask to be accepted as members of the order; hence Accepted Masons. How far back the custom of admitting such men to the Lodge goes is not clear, but hints of it are discernable in the oldest documents of the order.”
Source: The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry
“It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all would be on trial. Until you had definitely experienced all the human situations with them, you would have no means of knowing how, in any given situation, they would behave. They might conform about evening-dress, and throw plates between courses; they might be charming to your friends, and ask the waiter to sit down and finish dinner with you. Or they might in all things, little and big, be irreproachable. The point is that you would never know.”
“It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim eye is brightening with its last light. It is not strange that the freshest fountains the heart has ever known in its wastes should bubble up anew when the lifeblood is growing stagnant. It is not strange that a bright memory should come to a dying old man, as the sunshine breaks across the hills at the close of a stormy day; nor that in the light of that ray, the very clouds that made the day dark should grow gloriously beautiful.”
“It is not strange to me that persons of the fair sex should like, in all things about them, the handsomeness for which they find themselves most liked.”
“It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.”
“It is not 'strength' to try to take everything upon oneself.”
Source: ツバサ-RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- 25
“It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.”
Source: Adaptation to Life
“It is not such a fiercesome thing to lead once you see your leadership as part of God's overall plan for His world.”
Source: The Empowered Leader
“It is not such a hard thing is it- to die for your friends.”
“It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.”
“It is not suffering as such that makes someone appreciate love, it is only when suffering pierces our vanity—which happens when we do not blame someone else for our pain—that it awakens a deeper respect for love.”
Source: Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy
“It is not suffering that is precious, but the concentric pearlescence with which we contain it. The raw grit of anguish will never be in short supply. There is enough of it in the happiest life to serve these instructive purposes, and there always will be. We are more sympathetic to Holocaust survivors than to malcontent children of privilege, but we all have our darkness, and the trick is making something exalted of it.”
Source: Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
“it is not sufficient for an artificial system to obtain human (or super-human) level performances in specific tasks to attach to it the label “cognitive system”
Source: Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds
“It is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as "signposts declaring what it is to be fully human." They should impart a vision of what it can be to become divine.”
“It is not sufficient, he emphasized, to colour (colorare) the mind with wisdom; it must be pickled (macerare) in it, as it were, soaked in it (inficere), and entirely transformed by it.”
Source: You Must Change Your Life
“It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.”
“It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.”
“It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.”
“It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.”
“It is not sufficient to have compassion only for those who are cute.”