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“If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory.”

Ifs Want Real Victory Commitment Absolutes Insight Boat Islands Real Victory

Author:Tony Robbins

“Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.”

Kind Persons Absolutes Extremes Monsters Scrooge

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action.”

Giving Action Past Understanding Brain Tools Absolutes Guides Useless Power Corrupts Truism

Author:Steven Brust

“I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.”

Humans Important Left Understanding Politician Absolutes Affair Conservative Conviction Convinced Compromise Division Preacher Left And Right Zealotry

Author:Bill Keller

“To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal. You require absolute control and professionalism.”

Willing Musician Ideals Absolutes Infinite Details Pursuit Smallest Outstanding Professionalism

Author:Yehudi Menuhin

“There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.”

Force Ready Kings Absolutes Sufficient

Book:Correspondence

Source: Correspondence

“It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cultures using identical tools-but the tools settle the possibilities; you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room.”

Source: Trader to the Stars: Polesotechnic League

“Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.”

Country Law Language Expression Exercise Absolutes Instance Racist Framework Freedom Of Expression

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.”

Men Absolutes Guilty Innocence Condemnation

Author:Albert Camus

“Vulnerability is the absolute heartbeat of innovation and creativity. There can be zero innovation without vulnerability.”

Creativity Absolutes Innovation Vulnerability Zero Heartbeat Creativity And Innovation

Author:Brené Brown

“It's not demons (who at least have a human face) but Hell itself that seems to be laughing inside me, it's the croaking madness of the dead universe, the spinning cadaver of physical space, the end of all worlds blowing blackly in the wind, formless and timeless, without a God who created it, without even its own self, impossibly whirling in the absolute darkness as the one and only reality, everything.”

World Humans Ends Self Reality Seems Faces Universe Space Darkness Laughing Hell Wind Madness Absolutes Demon Timeless Spinning Human Faces Cadavers

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“Humanity is no longer the same. Its needs are no longer the same, and the needs of all around the world are recognizable. We need jobs. We need food. We need shelter. We need health care. We need education. These few things are the absolute necessities of all people everywhere, and yet even in the most-developed world, like America and Europe, no one has all of these things by right, unless they have money - and this is the rub.”

People World Needs Care Jobs America Humanity Europe Absolutes Around The World Health Care Shelter

Author:Benjamin Creme

“I am a big Brian Eno fan - the first few Brian Eno records are just absolute gibberish and he came up with a lot of lyrics by writing down loads and loads of random sentences and streams, and I find meaning in that music, even though he'd probably say it's absolute gibberish.”

Writing Firsts Bigs Records Fans Absolutes Sentences Streams Load Find Me Brian

Author:Jay Watson

“I think the French agonise more about being French, I don't think English think about being English that much. I think the Scottish think about being Scottish and the Welsh think about being Welsh, but the English don't really care. But the French think about it all the time, it's an absolute preoccupation.”

Thinking Care Absolutes Scottish Preoccupation Welsh

Author:Jonathan Meades

“The idea of feeling old is much more the worry of a slightly younger person. When you are getting old, that becomes - psssh - completely secondary to the absolute understanding of how short your life is.”

Persons Ideas Feelings Life Is Understanding Worry Absolutes Getting Old

Author:Moby

“That's the one thing you wake up with every day: How long have I got left? And that's the saddest thing in the world, because you have this absolute realization that everything you love you're going to have to let go of and give up. I look at my daughter and I think, There's going to be a point where I'm not going to be around for her. Even the thought of that breaks my heart.”

Thinking World Giving Looks Heart Long Left Break One Thing Love You My Heart Letting Go Giving Up Daughter Wake Up Absolutes Realization My Daughter Saddest Breaking My Heart

Author:Moby

“Rich white people show up in a poor country to pursue their leisure-time fun, get served by black and brown people, and live in relative - or absolute - comfort. In the water, that situation can get turned on its head, though. Local kids learn to surf, know the breaks, and take most or all of the best waves, fuming turistas be damned.”

People Knows Country Shows Kids Fun Black Water White Poor Situation Break Rich Comfort Absolutes Wave Locals Pursue Brown Relative Leisure Surf Poor Countries Leisure Time

Author:William Finnegan

“Before my book, the most common assessment of Eleanor Marx is "Yes, she's great but basically she's in the shadow of her father." Absolute bollocks. She fought him, she resisted, and she was not a kind of trocadateur of his ideas.”

Kind Book Ideas Father Common Shadow Absolutes Assessment Eleanor

Author:Rachel Holmes

“It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.”

Way May Seems Absolutes Optimist

Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

“I was always around people who were in the business from the time I was an absolute baby. I grew up in New York City, and my parents, my sister, and I had a house on Fire Island, and they were part of a set of people that were all close and friendly, most of whom were involved in show business in one regard or another. So it was always familiar to me, and I kind of enjoyed it.”

People Kind Shows House Parent Cities Fire New York Baby Grew Involved Grew Up Absolutes Regard Familiar Enjoyed Islands Friendly New York City My Sister Show Business

Author:Fred Melamed

“There's a lot of ways to be honest that don't necessarily involve absolute facts being true. I think that's something I absolutely try to do.”

Thinking Way Trying Facts Honest Absolutes Being True Being Honest

Author:Craig Finn

“Some men can be very rude. On the other hand, some clients are absolute angels. One john always brought me a gift every time he came to see me. He brought me a pearl necklace, a ring, a bra or something. But eventually, as much as I really loved all the gifts, he fell in love with me, and he tried to weasel his way into my life. It was too much and I sort of had to 'break up with him."”

Men Way Hands Break Too Much Angel Absolutes Rings Clients Rude Pearls Bras Necklaces Weasels

Author:Annie Sprinkle

“You look at the absolute scorn that gets poured on a fallen celebrity, whether it's Tom Cruise or Lindsay Lohan or Marlon Brando, or Elvis when he got fat. They're not allowed the dignity of ordinary failure. And I think that plays into people's notions about Los Angeles, too. It's not allowed to be a regular city with problems.”

People Thinking Looks Play Problem Cities Ordinary Dignity Absolutes Notion Fats Fallen Los Angeles Toms Scorn Cruise Brando

Author:Matthew Specktor

“I don't give a damn if you like Blackbeard. I don't care if you think he is an absolute despot. Do you believe me? If you do, I've done my work.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Believe Done Care Absolutes Don't Care I Don't Care Damn Believe In Me Despots Don't Give A Damn I Don't Give A Damn

Author:Ray Stevenson

“If you cross-section anyone's life from one angle and then another, what constitutes goodness looks different each time. It's not an absolute.”

Ifs Looks Different Goodness Crosses Absolutes Angle Sections

Author:Catherine Brady

“If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many, many people on the other end of the world, you have absolute power and you're not prepared for it.”

People Ifs World Years Littles Ends Cases Absolutes Prepared End Of The World Eighteen Nineteen Absolute Power

Author:Yaroslav Trofimov

“We are the most illusioned society on the planet. We have to become adults. And it's hard; it's painful. I struggle with despair all the time. But I'm not going to let it win. It is incumbent upon all of us that at the same time we recognize how dark the future is, we also recognize the absolute imperative of resistance in every form possible.”

Hard Form Winning Dark Struggle Planets Despair Adults Absolutes Painful Resistance Imperatives Incumbents

Author:Chris Hedges

“To me, my nephew is the angel of my world. It is my absolute happiest moment whenever he smiles at me. I have stopped working 24 hours a day like I was before, and I rush back home to see him whenever I can after work. That always makes my day.”

World I Can Moments Home Hours Angel Absolutes Back Home Nephew

Author:Li Bingbing

“It's a practice for me every day, sometimes every hour of every day. It is an absolute practice. When I went into the research, I really thought that there are authentic people and inauthentic people, period. What I found is, there people who practice authenticity and people who don't. The people who practice authenticity work their ass off at it.”

People Sometimes Found Hours Practice Periods Research Absolutes Authenticity Ass

Author:Brené Brown

“Marriage is a really scary thing. I'm excited about it. I know it's not a mistake, it's the absolute right thing to do. I'm really happy about it. I really, really love my fiancee. We're good friends and I think it's going to work. But that's just the point - it's going to take work. It does make me feel vulnerable to be like, wow, I'm committed to this person for the rest of my life.”

“I'm addicted to exercise. I love going to the gym, but my absolute favorite is hiking in L.A., particularly Runyon Canyon. It's become my mental and physical salvation.”

Exercise Absolutes Salvation Gym Hiking Canyons

Author:Jonathan Keltz

“Marlon Brando was the absolute opposite of everything they told me he was going to be, which is that he was a testy guy who wants to know that he's in control of everything. But, that's not who Marlon was. No matter what he did, the most important thing on his mind was justice.”

Knows Want Mind Important Matter Guy Justice Opposites Absolutes No Matter What Important Things Brando

Author:Johnny Depp

“My job - and it's really true - is that it's constantly evolving and changing. When I was doing the Chet Baker movie I was obsessed with playing the trumpet, and to my absolute shock I haven't picked the trumpet up since we wrapped. It was so much work. I thought I was going to keep playing the rest of my life, 'cause it was fun, it's just a lot of work. And it's a really unique job that exposes you to a lot.”

Jobs Fun Causes Havens Unique Absolutes Evolve Obsessed Shock Trumpets Bakers Really True Chet Baker

Author:Ethan Hawke

“My absolute favorite song I've ever written is "This Is Where We Came In." It's a nudge at younger listeners, cause at one time you could go into a cinema halfway through a film and then stay through and pick up where you left off.”

Film Song Left Causes Written Picks Absolutes Cinema One Time Listeners Halfway Nudge Favorite Song Where We Came

Author:James Hunter

“The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase of capitalism. It is totally inconsistent with democracy as well as with sustainability. What we have is capital working on a global scale, totally uprooted, with accountability nowhere, with responsibility nowhere, and with rights everywhere. This new capital, with absolute freedom and no accountability, is structurally anti-life, anti-freedom.”

“I can say with absolute confidence that the general public of Burma would be very little affected, if at all, by sanctions. So far, the kind of investments that have come in have benefited the public very little indeed. If you have been in Burma long enough, you will be aware of the fact that a small elite has developed that is extremely wealthy. Perhaps they would be affected, but my concern is not with them but with the general public.”

Ifs Kind Littles Long Has Beens I Can Enough Facts Would Be Concern Absolutes Investment Wealthy Affected Elites Sanctions General Public Burma

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it. It was the age of the long-runners.”

Long Age Remember Absolutes Musical Theatre Height Cycles Runners Musical Theatre

Author:Ruthie Henshall

“Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.”

Evil Absolutes Pregnancy Avoiding Contraceptives

Author:Pope Francis

“The only time I got the absolute most insanely nervous in my life was at the Olympic trials, because archery is a horrible spectator sport. Nobody goes and watches an archery tournament. Because the targets are three-quarters of a football field away. Who can tell who's winning? You can't even see your own target from where you are.”

Three Winning Sports Watches Fields Football Absolutes Trials Horrible Nervous Target Where You Are Quarters Only Time Spectators Tournaments Archery Football Field

Author:Geena Davis

“The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.”

War Religious Conflict Absolutes Persecution Absolute Truth Religious Wars

Author:Susan Jacoby

“Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even too much - in her own writing, the place where her creative life transpires in absolute fullness.”

Writing Given Novel Creative Too Much Absolutes Mysterious Fullness Creative Life

Book:Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

Source: Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

“We actually needed the memory - if you see the film - as a very different kind of a plot device of revealing some information to our main character. So we chose to represent it as these sort of beautiful little snow globes, which kind of, weirdly, that's the way we think of memories - at least, most of the folks that we talked to. You think of these memories as being very pure and absolute and unchanging. That's not actually real life.”

“The US really has to get out in front. We are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute.”

Giving Persons Fronts Amount Absolutes Aids Greenhouses Foreign Aid

Author:Bill Gates

“The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding. However, the selflessness teaching is not that hard to understand. What it means is a type of self that people feel they have, like a fixed, unchanging identity. Either they know they have it, or for some, they feel they need to seek it, and possibly have an experience where they feel like they found something. That type of fixed, unchanging, essential self, or absolute self doesn't exist. That's what "no self" means.”

People Knows Needs Feels Mean Ideas Self Hard Problem Would Be Found Understanding Teaching Identity Type Essentials Absolutes Fixed Mistaken Selflessness No Problem Unchanging

Author:Robert Thurman

“You can't relate to an absolute or it wouldn't be absolute, it would be relative. On an intellectual level, that's easy. However, you hear theologians in the theistic traditions talk about absolute God, and I saw God, or God spoke; speaking, being seen, these are all relational things. So what is absolute about such a being, wouldn't actually be absolute.”

Would Be Easy Levels Saws Intellectual Tradition Absolutes Relate Spokes Relative Theologian

Author:Robert Thurman

“An absolute being would be irrelevant to the world, as it couldn't create it. Any action, or causal process that would involve them, would make them relational. An absolute is the opposite of relative. So that's easy to understand, however, even though we understand that intellectually, which is very important to do, you don't transform yourself completely, yet.”

World Important Would Be Action Easy Process Opposites Absolutes Relative Irrelevant

Author:Robert Thurman

“The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc., you can use all kinds of methods to deepen this understanding and to have it counter the instinctual sense of being an absolute you.”

Kind Long Important Use Understanding Term Meditation Absolutes Method All Kinds Long Term Reasoning Etc Familiarity Using Me

Author:Robert Thurman

“So that's the process of understanding, and through that process, if you have a deep realization of the selflessness in regard to your absolute self, then it releases your relational self to be happily interconnected with everything in a blissful way. Then you yourself have "no problem" in the sense of no suffering. You reach Nirvana.”

Ifs Way Self Problem Suffering Process Understanding Absolutes Regard Release Realization Selflessness No Problem Interconnected

Author:Robert Thurman

“However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no absolute self apart from things, you realize that essentially, you are all the other beings.”

Stills Self Problem Realizing All Things Absolutes Interconnectedness

Author:Robert Thurman

“In Buddhist ideology, the conventional self is that which is constructed in a way by the use of the pronoun, and when you realize there is no absolute ego there, no disconnected one, self, or ego, then that actually strengthens your conventional ego. It does so in the sense that then you realize it's a construction, and you can strengthen it in order to help others, or do whatever you're trying to do, it's not like you no longer know who you are. Then you can organize your behavior by using your ego, as it's now the pronoun.”

Knows Way Trying Doe Self Helping Use Order Realizing Like You Ego Behavior Absolutes Who You Are Helping Others Ideology Buddhist Construction Conventional Organize Disconnected Pronouns

Author:Robert Thurman

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