U Quotes
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“Ultimate Trust Is Earned, Not Given”
Source: If The Flowers Could Talk: Top Fifty Famous Love Letters
“Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.”
Source: The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings
“Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.”
Source: That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist: On Being A Faithful Jew and a Passionate
“Ultimately a good logo is something that people recognize instantly and relate to.”
“Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.”
Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny
“Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.”
Source: The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations
“Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest, and in later times by deep religious feelings, confirmed by instruction and habit, all combined, constitute our moral sense or conscience.”
Source: Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies
“Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.”
“Ultimately a life message shouts more clearly and loudly than a brand message. Your image may communicate an outward brand, but your life shouts the real inner message.”
“Ultimately, a woman’s nature loves the desire to be desired, a passionate and uncontrollable desire. Sometimes it comes with a sacrifice or greater investment than usual.”
Source: Awakening Kings and Princes Volume I
“Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.”
“Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother was German and my maternal grandfather was Greek. The next time I fill out one of those forms I am going to check 'Other' and write in the truth about my racial and cultural heritage: 'African-Greek-German-American.' And proud of it.”
Source: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
“Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.”
“Ultimately all kinds of fights end at forgiveness.”
“Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.”
“Ultimately amorality is immorality.”
Source: Cultural Anthropology: A Contemporary Perspective
“Ultimately an investment is an instrument of trust as much as it is of belief.
Every single part of your strategy is showing you're accountable and understand your responsibility with that.
Take ownership.”
“Ultimately, and this is where true power lies: no one can cast you out of the home in your heart.”
Source: Can't Stop the Sunrise: Adventures in Healing, Confronting Corruption & the Journey to Institutional Reform
“Ultimately, arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
“Ultimately as a leader, you're evaluated on how you interact with people. If you do it well, you develop a reputation as effective leader. If you don't, you develop a reputation for being a highly ineffective leader.”
“Ultimately as much as the film industry is a business, it's a democracy. And the audience votes on how they feel based on the way they spend their money for tickets.”
“Ultimately, beyond the primordial, brutish labels of man-made institutions, true practical religion of the civilized society must bring oneness. This very process of unification without bigotry is what makes religion, religion, for the word religion comes from the latin "religare", which means "to bind", that is to unify humanity.”
Source: A Push in Perception
“Ultimately, body liberation is about freeing yourself from the commodification of your body, rejecting the use of your body as a tool of capitalism, and claiming your freedom.
It’s about abandoning colonized ideas of acceptability and reclaiming the freedom to live your life on your terms and use your body as a vehicle for your pleasure and exploration of the world.”
Source: Decolonizing Wellness
“Ultimately chess is just chess - not the best thing in the world and not the worst thing in the world, but there is nothing quite like it.”
“Ultimately, classroom teachers are the targets of this anger, as they are the public face of the education system. As a group, teachers work very hard with limited resources. They are called upon to equalize the inequities our society creates, and to offer not just equal educational opportunities, but equal educational outcomes to all children.”
“Ultimately, co-dependency ends when you make the choice to stop relating in co-dependent ways and by developing a healthy, harmonious relationship with yourself.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“Ultimately, confinement did seek to suppress madness, to eliminate from the social order a figure which did not find its place within it; the essence of confinement was not the exorcism of a danger. Confinement merely manifested what madness, in its essence, was: a manifestation of non-being; and by providing this manifestation, confinement thereby suppressed it, since it restored it to its truth as nothingness. Confinement is the practice which corresponds most exactly to madness experienced as unreason, that is, as the empty negativity of reason; by confinement, madness is acknowledged to be nothing.”
Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
“Ultimately, consistent profitability comes down to choosing between the discomforts you feel when you follow your plan and the urge to let yourself be captures ( and ruled) by your emotions.”
Source: The essence of trading psychology in one skill
“Ultimately, each of us will have to determine for ourselves who Jesus is and what he represents. For me, he is an artist of life, and what he teaches is the fine art of living. Perhaps this is my bias; perhaps it is not.”
Source: The Zen Teachings of Jesus
“Ultimately, end goal
—be the best of who we are
think not of obtaining trophy or power
but the experiences that make memories
to better understand humankind
—be both earthly and of spiritual realm
not by force or authoring control
—but server to common good”
“Ultimately, ESG is about wise capital stewardship. The expectation is that we wisely steward environmental capital, financial capital and human capital, as well as other forms of capital. If we understand that capital comes in all these various forms, and approach that capital with the spirit of stewardship and the know-how of stewardship, we will in effect be ESG compliant.”
Source: Business Essentials
“Ultimately, every human is their own writer."
- Han Sooyoung”
“Ultimately every trick succeeds or fails with an audience because of its plot.”
“Ultimately everyone, no matter who you are, we all at our core want to just know that we matter.”
“Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations...”
Source: The Undiscovered Self
“Ultimately, everything we do is merely in hopes of being loved or spreading it.”
Source: The Labyrinth of Clouds
“Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.”
“Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a rather implausible dogma - the Marxist dogma of world redemption through Communism.”
“Ultimately, Hausner’s efforts regarding the murder were thwarted when questions posed by both Servatius and the judges proved that Avraham Gordon, whom Hausner called as the witness to the murder, could not have observed it.
-- The Eichmann Trial, page 99”
Source: The Eichmann Trial
“Ultimately, healing and growth can come from allowing the loss to inspire and transform us. In this way, we maintain the connection with our loved ones. We give meaning to their journey on this Earth, and on some level, they live on through us.”
“Ultimately humanity is one, and this small planet is our only home. If we're to protect this home of ours, each of us needs to experience a vivid sense of universal altruism and compassion.”
Source: The Compassionate Life
“Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.”
“Ultimately, I found my instincts mirrored in a line from Thoreau: 'My needle...always settles between west and south-southwest. The future lies that way to me, and the earth seems more exhausted and richer on that side.”
“Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.”
Source: Special deliveries: new and selected poems
“Ultimately, I hoped the tiny-house guy was similar to me: a sane person without a big agenda, who simply wanted a way to make sense of the world, to create a new map with a big X in the middle labeled "Home," even if that meant shrinking his world down to the size of an area rug.”
“Ultimately I live in the now with artistic creation, not what could or could not be in the future, if a creation appears timeless in somebody's opinion, it won't in others, that's not for me to guess.”
“Ultimately, I shall write the morals for myself. I am only concerned with living a moral life, but my morality, just now, is ineffectual. I don't have the strength to put it into action, but I must get this strength from within myself. From nowhere else does self-integrity come.”
“Ultimately I think I learned a lot from my mother - the way she used fashion to make herself feel better; it was a tool she had and she used it very well. Fashion for her wasn't so far as an escape, but certainly a time where she would sit on her own and prepare what she wanted to wear the next day - it turned into bit of a ritual.”
“Ultimately, I think the #1 thing that draws me to someone is their sense of freedom. Freedom and confidence are two different things, in my book. Confidence is overrated — it can be faked, whereas freedom is fearlessness.”