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“As a political activist you run the risk of having to settle for one compromise or another in order to achieve your goals. Artists face the obvious accusation of elitism. The fundamental principle of my work is that it critiques capitalism in very specific ways. I am not interested in generalized political rhetoric. Instead of "aestheticizing" political issues, I try to challenge ingrained perspectives.”

Trying Running Political Artist Goal Challenges Risk Achieve Perspective Capitalism Obvious Compromise Settling Activist Not Interested Rhetoric Critique Accusation Elitism

Author:Josephine Meckseper

“Who is going to fix the mess the Democrat Party's found itself in? Harry Reid gonna fix it? Howard Dean gonna work it out? Superdelegates, are they going to settle this? What, are we being had? Senator Barack Obama, we are told, is first an instrument of hope and then an instrument of change. Obama and his followers say that his biggest asset is bringing both sides together. His both sides are liberals. Both sides in the fight on the Democrat Party are liberals.”

Together Fighting Party Democrat Mess Barack Settling

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I procrastinate, and I push writing to the last available moment, because I don't like to settle on anything. I guess you can call it indecision or you can call it holding out for inspiration.”

Writing Moments Inspiration Settling Indecision Procrastinating

Author:Ariel Pink

“I'm a big believer in trying to challenge yourself to step outside of your comfort zone and try new things. I was petrified of sharks in the ocean so I got certified in scuba because I don't like settling for being afraid of things and being uncomfortable with things.”

Trying Challenges Comfort Ocean Believer Settling Uncomfortable Zone Comfort Zone Being Afraid Challenge Yourself

Author:Nick Lachey

“Anyone attempting to live a Christian lifestyle will always be pressed towards settling for "nominal Christianity." For the believer who lives in the Bible Belt, it can become less about whether one is living his or her life in complete and total sold-out devotion to God, and more about where I'm going to lunch after church. If I live in an area where Christians are in the minority, there is the pressure to take a more a la carte approach to one's belief system. It's safer to take some of God's teachings and apply the parts we like but push aside that which seems too extreme or exclusive.”

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Author:Matthew West

“My daughter went to the school, and it's a very, very progressive and liberal school, and my commencement speech was telling the kids just to always be willing to quit, and that they need to quit a lot in their lives, and keep on quitting, because all the happiness I've ever got was when I turned my back on things that everybody else thought would make you happy. I can smell parents' stomach acid right now, but they know that whole "You gotta get a job and you gotta settle for what people perceive as success" thing is really absurd.”

People Kids School Daughter Quitting Absurd Perceive Settling My Daughter Progressive Make You Happy Commencement Commencement Speech

Author:Bobcat Goldthwait

“The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance. One's life completely changes based on the rain. After the monsoon, because the dust settles, one can see further and so it feels like one's eyesight has improved or that one is living in a different country where there is more light.”

Different Country Rain Importance Settling Eyesight

Author:Akhil Sharma

“There is no single formula for good sentence. An invisible integument that gives the sentence wholeness and musicality, sometimes. But other times, the formula is almost purely one of context. And yet other times, of sheer precision of meaning. This is a good sentence: "Just as he was settling into the warm mud of alcoholic gloom, Shrike caught his arm." "Warm mud of alcoholic gloom" is exact and right and accurate.”

Giving Sometimes Invisible Settling Wholeness Gloom Of Context

Author:Rachel Kushner

“My philosophy is the balance of remembering the past but not living in it, to know where you are in the moment, to project a little in the future and be ready to change. It's how you experience the grace to enjoy the smell of the pavement after a rain - the little things in life to make you satisfied. I never settle for anything that doesn't give me a modicum of pleasure if not total joy and satisfaction. It's allowed, that's what we're supposed to feel. How can we, from an empty cup, offer a stranger a drink of water? You have to fill that cup to the brim!”

Giving Philosophy Moments Past Remember Joy Enjoy Water Pleasure Grace Balance Drink Rain Empty Stranger Settling Little Things Remembering The Past Little Things In Life

Author:Carmen Dell'Orefice

“The business schools could do a better job teaching face-to-face management, the actual work of organizing and helping along the efforts of others in the organization. The more quantitative disciplines have gotten more attention, often more research dollars. Areas like organizational science or, even mushier, leadership have had more trouble settling on what it's important to teach, and how. It's rather like strategy itself, which as I argue in the book, has had trouble through most of its history figuring out how to incorporate people, their motivation and ability, into its calculations.”

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Author:Walter Kiechel

“I think there's a very fundamental urge to create a safe space, a home; most animals have that impulse, and humans certainly do - with some exceptions, like nomadic people who perhaps don't feel the need to settle in quite that way. But most of us do want to have space, somewhere we feel secure and where we repeatedly return. Somewhere we can sleep without fear. And there's nothing wrong with that desire. It's completely understandable. It only becomes ugly when that creation of a safe space involves making an enclosure from which other people are kept out.”

People Thinking Home Desire Sleep Animal Creation Ugly Impulse Settling Exception

Author:Lucy Hughes-Hallett

“I have such respect for people who do non-fiction casting after settling on the grandparents we got for this. It is really hard to find people who are not fame-whores. We're lucky these people actually wanted to spend their time doing this. All of them would have much rather been cooking without the cameras, being with their families. That's why they're great characters.”

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Author:Mo Rocca

“My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.”

Hard My Own Break Depression Painful Despite Settling Depressing Consistency

Book:Lee Krasner

Source: Lee Krasner

“There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.”

Whole Sun Creatures Shoes Settling Unfortunate Fetish

Author:Karl Kraus

“Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.”

Giving Settling

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”

Source: The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

“The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.”

Thinking Littles Mark Trauma Settling Shock Changing Your Life Little Time Indelible

Author:Alex Lifeson

“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

“They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.”

Ifs Looks Faces Settling Call Me Privileged Ugliness Frivolous Settling Down

Author:Imelda Marcos

“Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.”

Music Style Succeed Jazz Musical Substance Settling

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.”

People Has Beens Able Speak Becoming Burden Settling Britain Taxpayers Migrants Speak English

Author:Theresa May

“I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.”

Feels Shows Night Late Down And Settling Every Night Settling Down Talk Shows Late Night

Author:John Mayer

“The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.”

Humans Littles Wisdom Temptation Settling Simple Life Settling In

Author:Thomas Merton

“It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God's will.”

People Needs Feels Helping Easy Effort Responsibility Cost Behavior Harder Accomplish Gods Will Great Things Settling Taking Responsibility Obedient

Author:Joyce Meyer

“It's like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf... most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.”

Way Together Lord Sitting Add Bottom Settling Awe Shakes Ingredients Bottles Reverence Shelves Flavor Dressings Salad Jars Seasoning Salad Dressing

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times we settle for routine dishes. This forces you to try new cuisines.”

Trying Eye Force Land Fingers Evening Settling Theme Maps Routine Dishes Cuisine

Author:Mario Batali

“In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.”

People Ifs Nations Forget Opinion Aspect Fundamentals Settling Forget It Peace With God

Author:Sun Myung Moon

“Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.”

Giving Believe Long Country America Wealth Cutting Like You Giving Up Shots Contrary Broke Settling Cash Wages Grandparent Pension Great Grandparents Long Shots

Author:Michael Moore

“After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.”

“I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'”

Needs Said Political Father Party Boys Dad Thirds Settling Political Parties

Author:Ralph Nader

“Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.”

Important Married Important Things Settling Getting Married Settling Down Settling In

Author:Liam Neeson

“Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.”

Mind Book Shows Reading Opportunity Embrace My Favorite Settling Episodes Trash Good Book Settling Down Place And Time

Author:Rachel Nichols

“Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.”

People Looks Business Aim Management Advertising Settling Remarkable Routine Hiring Better Than You Service Culture Leadership And Management Top Management Managing People Great Managers Great Management

Author:David Ogilvy

“I want you to answer this question: Why should you settle for anything less than an authentic conservative who will fight for your views and values without an apology? Think about that.”

Thinking Want Should Values Fighting Answers Views Conservative Settling Apology I Want You

Author:Rick Perry

“I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we're really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don't have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“I think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.”

People Thinking Want Happens Life Is Realizing Skins Caring Settling Gift From God Life Is A Gift Stop Caring Realize Life

Author:Tyler Perry

“In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.”

People Knows Want Years Sound Five Self Esteem Thirds Down And Sticks Inspired Albums Finished Settling Five Years Mum Settling Down

Author:Adele

“I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.”

“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.”

Want War Ends Government Peace Differences Harmony Method Settling Anti War Brutal Inhuman Peace And Harmony Peace Harmony Warlords Settling In

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle.”

Done Refuse Settling Done With Love

Author:Halle Berry

“I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.”

Want Roles Settling Conventional Percentages

Author:Zoe Saldana

“I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity.”

Thinking Persons Done Jobs Term Innovation Settling Apples Mediocrity Aspire Better Person Emulate Not Settling

Author:Howard Schultz

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”

“My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.”

Way Littles Real Rooms Settling Nests

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.”

Men Can Do Money Settling

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.”

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Author:Bessie Smith

“Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.”

People Should Hard Problem Faces Desire Size Settling Status Quo Urgency Settling Down Challenging Status Quo Challenging The Status Quo

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.”

Life Is Answers Mystery Amount Adults Deny Enormous Settling Rock N Roll Just Live

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.”

May Helping Interest Citizens Organization Favors Settling Agreement Disputes Treaties

Author:David Suzuki

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