Quotes with accepting

  • Most people wander through life, carelessly taking whatever risk crosses their paths without compensation, but never consciously accepting extra risk to pick up the money and other good things lying all around them.
  • I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
  • By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving.
  • The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Bob Rae many on the right confuse the is of globalization with the ought of simply accepting all its effects. They preach a political quietism that is really just a cloak for greed.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. One, The Rabbis Three Questions, p. 7
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Brad Feld Accepting that part of the process of writing is deleting a lot of what you write is soothing, at least to me.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Caitlin Doughty Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Bill Plympton America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Bridget Riley As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Caroline Rhea Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.
    Caroline Rhea
    Canadian–American actress (1964 - )
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  • George Orwell Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Angela Davis I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Anne Ford I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.
    Anne Ford
    English musician and singer (1737 - 1824)
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  • Angela Davis I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Ben Foster I'm not going to beat this life. It's gonna get me in the end. So accepting that is a real freedom and finding a joy in working that I haven't allowed myself before.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Aristotle It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Aaron C. Brown Most people wander through life, carelessly taking whatever risk crosses their paths without compensation, but never consciously accepting extra risk to pick up the money and other good things lying all around them.
    The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 3
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Tom Hanks My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels - we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]
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  • Napoleon Hill No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Bobby Davro Of course it was difficult accepting the change in TV trends. It all ended quite early for me. I was in my mid-30s, and I hadn't achieved everything I wanted. There's nothing on TV for people like me anymore. All they want are new young faces.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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