“There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.” GivingHardGamesWinningSleepCareersCasesOur LivesSacrificeHard WorkGiving UpNotionAccomplishStealingZeroSomewhere ElseZero Sum Game Author:Maynard Webb
“Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion — or you shall learn nothing.” GivingChildrenLittlesFactsGiving UpPreparedNotionBe PreparedPreconceived Notions Book:Selected speeches Source: Selected speeches
“The way to "find" the perfect career is to give up the notion that you will ever find it, stumble across it, or that it will somehow magically find you, and to get to work designing it.” WayGivingPerfectCareersDesignGiving UpNotion Author:Nicholas Lore
“I'm not ready to give up gayness in and of itself as something unique and different. A litmus test for me for all of it was the bisexual imagination and the androgynous imagination of the Glam era. Because that meant everybody was implicated in this uncertain sense of sexual self, and it meant that everything was unstable. I guess I'm just not that interested in stable notions of identity, whatever they are.” GivingDifferentSelfImaginationIdentityReadyGiving UpUniqueTestsNotionErasStableUncertainNot ReadyUnstableBisexualGlamAndrogynousGaynessReady To Give Up Author:Todd Haynes
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.” LifeInspirationalGivingChildrenLittlesFactsWisdomMotivationalNatureEducationKnowledgeCreativityLearningHumilityGiving UpInnovationPreparedNotionCuriosityBe PreparedAbyssPreconceived NotionsInspirational Learning Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
“The notion that Americans can be protected from "terror" by giving up the Bill of Rights is absurd. Democrats are complicit in this absurd notion. Many were intimidated into voting for police state legislation, because they lacked the intestinal fortitude to call police state legislation by its own name. The legislation that has been passed during the Bush regime is far more dangerous to Americans than Muslim terrorists.” GivingHas BeensStatesNamesRightsDangerousGiving UpPoliceBillsDemocratNotionTerrorTerroristAbsurdVotingRegimesProtectedLegislationFortitudeIntimidatedBill Of RightsPolice StateMuslim TerroristsIntestinal Fortitude Author:Paul Craig Roberts
“Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.” KnowsGivingArtI CanGiving UpDifficultyNotionDespiteNobility Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.” WayGivingFirstsIdeasSoulDesireDangerousGiving UpHarmonySpeciesNotionVacuousDangerous Ideas Author:Cormac McCarthy
“the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness was one i should willingly give up....moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable reactions to what life has dealt....even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life.” IfsGivingShouldMindBelieveMadeDifficultCostEssentialsDepressionGiving UpBehaviorGloryAbsolutesNotionOneselfIllnessExtremesMoodReactionsFlightMade ItSubstanceTemporaryIntensityPsychotic Author:Kay Redfield Jamison
“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.” GivingRealStruggleGiving UpNotionSurrenderWithin YouDistressing Author:Baruch Spinoza