“In the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on, people have to be trained to be managers, and controllers, and to accept things, and not to question too much.” PeopleHumanitySocialAcceptingToo MuchFieldsEconomicsJournalismManagersSocial ScienceControllers Author:Noam Chomsky
“Our relationships as experimentalists with theoretical physicists should be like those with a beautiful woman - we should accept with gratitude any favours she offers, but we should not expect too much nor believe all that is said.” ShouldBelieveSaidBeautifulAcceptingToo MuchGratitudeOffersOur RelationshipFavourPhysicistBeautiful WomenTheoretical Author:Lev Artsimovich
“He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.” AcceptingToo MuchGratitudeIngratitude Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“The promise of God is that you are His son. Her offspring. Its likeness. His equal. Ah...here is where you get hung up. You can accept "His son," "offspring," "likeness," but you recoil at being called "His equal." It is too much to accept. Too much bigness, too much wonderment-too much responsibility. For if you are God's equal, that means nothing is being done to you-and all things are created by you. There can be no more victims and no more villains-only outcomes of your thought about a thing.” IfsInspirationalMeanDoneReligiousResponsibilityAcceptingToo MuchSonPromiseEqualAll ThingsVictimOutcomesVillainHungOffspringBeing DoneRecoil Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.” ShouldHeartNaturalPleasureAcceptingToo MuchEqualInjusticePursue Book:Complete Essays Source: Complete Essays
“I have to keep myself in check when I go to the kids' sports events. I sit waaay in the back. I make sure I don't do too much cheering, you know what I mean? I'm still not quite adjusted to this modern school of thought: Oh, it doesn't matter who wins. I'm not all the way there yet, but I accept it from the back row.” KnowsWayMeanStillsMatterKidsSchoolWinningSportsAcceptingToo MuchModernEventsChecksCheer Author:Jack Nicholson