R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Rather than trying to hold it all, we can let life’s input flow through us. We can alchemize it into something beautiful, even the pain.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
“Rather than trying to master nature we should start with the basics of trying to understand nature, cooperate with nature.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“Rather than trying to paper over our suffering with comforting beliefs, this approach is about actually exploring directly what seems to be in the way of freedom, peace and happiness, what seems scary, dreadful and unbearable. It's one thing to believe that the tiger chasing you is only a mirage, and it's another thing entirely to actually turn around and embrace the tiger and find out for sure.”
Source: Nothing to Grasp
“Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.”
“Rather than trying to rationalize everything, why don't you do me a favor and just start feeling?”
Source: Bound by Secrets
“Rather than trying to recover and maintain a tradition that links back to the past (and former glories), Chaos Magick is an approach that enables the individual to use anything that s/he thinks is suitable as a temporary belief or symbol system. What matters is the results you get, not the 'authenticity' of the system used. So Chaos Magic then, is not a system - it utilises systems and encourages adherents to devise their own, giving magic a truly Postmodernist flavour.”
“Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.”
“Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.”
“Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.”
Source: Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life
“Rather than using these pages for a boring English lesson, I will simply encourage you to become keenly aware and pay close attention to your articulation and grammar.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.”
“Rather than viewing particles as granules of matter, instead think of ‘particles’ as defined by the quality that each of them is, keyword: fungible. (Fungibility is the ability of a good or asset to be interchanged with other individual goods or assets of the same type.)”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“Rather than viewing value stream mapping as just a toll to reduce operational waste, the broader use of value stream mapping as a methodology to transform leadership thinking, define strategy and priorities, and assure that customers are receiving high levels of value is where value stream mapping earns its brightest stripes.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.”
“Rather than waste or eliminate items which you don’t currently use, discover a new way to improve and enjoy their value. What strengths and talents can you repurpose for a new endeavor? How can you re-purpose your thoughts to ensure they help you rather than hinder?”
“Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.”
“Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:
The sun-comprehending glass,
And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.”
Source: High Windows
“Rather than working to the exclusion of everything else in order to flood our bank accounts in the hope that we can eventually buy back what we have missed along the way, we need to live life fully now with a sense of its fragility.”
Source: The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living
“Rather than worrying about work, schedules, and deadlines, I felt at peace with God. He was in control. The world at large would not crumble because I turned off my iPhone. This is how it's supposed to be. For the first time in who knows how long, I felt like myself. Fully alive. Fully present. And fully aware of God's goodness.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
“Rather than worrying, figure out what you can change. Rather than panicking, which takes a significant amount of energy and is destructive anyway, start thinking about how to solve the issue that provoked the initial worry.”
Source: The Bottom Line: What You Need For Success In Business, Leadership And Life
“Rather than write about what you know, you told us, write about what you see. Assume that you know very little and that you'll never know much until you learn how to see.”
Source: The Friend
“Rather than writing seminar papers, I would stay up until dawn trying to describe a bass line or a synthesizer ("like jet-exhaust"), not because I was transfixed with the sound itself, but because I needed to perfect my skills of description.”
Source: Stay True
“Rather than you smoking a cigarette, the cigarette is really smoking you.”
“Rather than, as an actor, I want the audience to like me, I'm going to smile beautifully and I've got everybody's sympathy - what about showing the moments when somebody is unbelievably petty? Or really selfish? The faults, the little things, those are the things that interested me about playing the character.”
“Rather that being an aberrant expression of North American fears and attitudes about witchcraft, it should be instead be seen as the ultimate expression of it. And therein lies the most alarming aspect of the Salem witch crisis- if Salem is not aberrant then it cannot be comfortably consigned to the past.”
Source: The Penguin Book of Witches
“Rather the pain of discipline than the pain of regret.”
“Rather then focusing on the obstacle in your path, focus on the bridge over the obstacle.”
“Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.”
“Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.”
Source: The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His Occasional Works: Namely Letters, Speeches, Tracts, State Papers, Memorials, Devices and All Authentic Writings Not Already Printed Among His Philosophical, Literary, Or Professional Works
“Rather to my surprise, I found myself genuinely indignant at the suggestion that murder was to be reintroduced as a means of political advancement for the first time since the Tudors, and even more indignant that the legal and political establishments in all their forms - which included, at that stage, the police - were going to cover up the whole episode. In the event, it turned out that my anxieties were unfounded, as Thorpe was totally innocent of all charges brought against him.”
“Rather waiting for your life to change, change it for yourself.”
“Rather we let down the world than the world let us down!”
“Rather we say that in the cross, God had in view the actual, effective redemption of his children from all that would destroy them, including their own unbelief. And we affirm that when Christ died particularly for his bride, he did not simply create a possibility or an opportunity for salvation, but really purchased and infallibly secured for them all that is necessary to get them saved, including the grace of regeneration and the gift of faith.”
Source: Five Points: Towards a Deeper Experience of God’s Grace
“Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.”
Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections
“Rather you marry or not,
you'll regret.”
Source: The Alpha Male Guide: Philosophy For Studs
“Rather you marry or not;
You'll regret." -Socrates”
Source: Tales From Hell: 20 Psychological Tales of Horror
“Rather you realize it or not the power of influence is deeply connected to the impact you will have on others.”
“Rather, although belief may be adequate for explaining the behavior of individual animals - an animal which believes that p will behave no differently from an animal which knows that p - talk of knowledge is necessary once one begins to look at explaining the cognitive capacities of a species.”
“Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.”
“Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.”
“Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires.”
Source: Selected letters, 1940-1956
“Rather, it is the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden, and to accept with our hearts our given situation. When film does this, when it subverts our absorption in the temporal and reveals the depths of our own reality, it opens us to a fuller sense of ourselves and our world. It is alive as a devotional form.”
Source: Devotional Cinema
“Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.”
“Rather, my perceptions about how we solve problems in health care or education span across a whole range of areas. And I want to try to capture that complexity.”
“Rather, risk is a perception in each investor's mind that results from analysis of the probability and amount of potential loss from an investment. If an exploratory oil well proves to be a dry hole, it is called risky. If a bond defaults or a stock plunges in price, they are called risky. But if the well is a gusher, the bond matures on schedule, and the stock rallies strongly, can we say they weren't risky when the investment after it is concluded than was known when it was made.”
“Rather, Spirit, and enlightement, has to be something that you are fully aware of right now. Something you are already looking at right now... We are all already looking directly at Spirit, we just don't recognize it. We have all the necessary cognition, but not the recognition.”
Source: Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber
“Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.”
“Rather, the collapsing between act and condition, "I am" with "I do," feels like authenticity, an authenticity of being. The muse rewarded me for a few months, after April of 2012, by giving me poems, almost a poem each day, that I can claim as coming from my writer's status.”
“Rather, the master question from which the mission of education research is derived: What should be taught to whom, and with what pedagogical object in mind? That master question is threefold: what, to whom, and how? Education research, under such a dispensation, becomes an adjunct of educational planning and design. It becomes design research in the sense that it explores possible ways in which educational objectives can be formulated and carried out in the light of cultural objectives and values in the broad.”
“Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.”