“Be carefree yet careful: While you should work on overcoming unnecessary worrying, have a healthy fear of danger and sensibly guard yourself from harm. Overcoming worry does not mean putting yourself in danger, but in having a calm attitude in dealing with difficulties and accepting what cannot be changed.” ShouldMeanDoeAttitudeAcceptingWorryDangerChangedHealthyOvercomingDifficultyCalmCarefulHarmAnticipationUnnecessaryCarefreeOvercoming WorryHealthy Fear Author:Zelig Pliskin
“It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity, and that the more readily we accept it,the less will be the ardor of our opponents, and that out of the greatest dangers communities and individuals acquire the greatest glory.” WarIndividualCommunityAcceptingDangerGloryUnderstoodOpponentsAcquireArdor Book:The Landmark Thucydides Source: The Landmark Thucydides
“The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.” EnoughAcceptingDangerGood EnoughAvenuesDeadline Author:Judith Weir
“The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power.” PeopleThinkingShouldKindStatesAcceptingDangerMurderPunishmentBureaucracyHumaneSanitary Author:Jerry Brown
“For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one correct spiritual and moral path for all people to follow. The danger inherent in this is its explicit refusal to accept anyone who happens to lead a different lifestyle, and the condemnation of those who differ.” PeopleBelieveDifferentHappensSpiritualPoliticalAcceptingMoralPathDangerElementsWingsLifestyleAgendasInherentDisturbingRefusalRight WingCondemnationExplicitPolitical AgendasDifferent Lifestyles Author:Barbra Streisand
“The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.” CertainAcceptingAtheismDangerDegreesTasksUniversalPositive AtheismBelieverProtectedAfflictionNeuroticNeurosisTrue Believer Author:Sigmund Freud
“Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger or a child in central Asia. But I will not accept responsibility for what other people do because I happen to belong to that nation or that race or that religion. I do not believe in guilt by association.” PeopleBelieveChildrenMomentsHappensSufferingNationsRaceResponsibilityAcceptingDangerMinesGuiltMy ChildrenAssociationAsiaCentral Asia Author:Margaret Mead
“When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.” FightingCausesEffortAcceptingEffectsDangerIncreaseOriginalsIllnessMental IllnessInevitableSickness Book:The Intimate Journal of George Sand Source: The Intimate Journal of George Sand
“Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change” HelpingBeliefAcceptingDangerCreatorResistanceResistance To Change Book:God Emperor of Dune Source: God Emperor of Dune
“That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.” IfsPastAcceptingOpinionEventsDangerStandardsIdeologyFormulasMeasurementAccuracyHigh StandardsPast EventsFuture Events Author:John Dos Passos
“There is the liability of accepting prematurely an artificial horizon for our own character and personality, of losing the horizon of the possible person we might be. It is the danger of considering our character as something static, rather than as something emerging.” PersonsCharacterMightAcceptingDangerPersonalityLosingHorizonArtificialConsideringEmergingStaticLiability Author:Halford Luccock