Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward de Bono

The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.

Edward Albee

There are two things that a playwright can have. Success or failure. I imagine there are dangers in both. Certainly the danger of being faced with indifference or hostility is discouraging, and it may be that success - acceptance if it's too quick, too lightning-quick - can turn the heads of some people.

Edward Albee

Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.

Eckhart Tolle

Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware presence, simply through accepting that this is what is happening or this is what I am feeling or thinking.

Eckhart Tolle

Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

Eckhart Tolle

Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.

Denis MacShane

The Marty report has more holes than a Swiss cheese. It is sad that Mr Marty refuses to accept the categorical denials of the Polish and Romanian governments.

The market will accept it, we have little doubt about it.

Barry Ritholtz

The market never met a tax cut it didn't like and it would not be happy with a complete roll back, ... but if the economic recovery seems to be full-throated, the market might be willing to accept the rolling back of select tax cuts as a means of reducing the deficit, making John Edwards and John Kerry more appealing.

Jerry Jones

The meeting was short, concise and unanimous. We're all on the same page. The position that's on the table by the players is just not acceptable, and it wasn't acceptable to any of the constituents.

The mentality of this team is always to be in the playoffs. We don't expect anything else or accept anything else.

Mark Frauenfelder

The maker movement is about people who want to gain more control of the human design world that they interact with every day. Instead of accepting off-the-shelf solutions from institutions and corporations, makers would like to make, modify, and repair their own tools, clothing, food, toys, furniture, and other physical objects.

The market has clearly accepted the notion that the Fed will back away.

Friedrich Schiller

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all.

George Gissing

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation - to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.

Luigi Pirandello

Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality .. which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life .

Malcolm X

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

Mahatma Gandhi

All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.

Jacob Bronowski

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

Joanna Lumley

The idea of getting married just to make it socially acceptable and then maybe getting divorced later on seems a creepy way to behave.

The entire team is interested in helping her get 1,000. The seniors are a great group of kids to have. They have been willing to accept different roles at different points in their careers.

The English common law was accepted in all the colonies, but it was modified everywhere by statutes, according to the need of each colony.

The heights are Donald Trump size - huge buildings. There is a real serious issue whether that's an acceptable paradigm for what high-rise development should be on the East Side.

Alan Greenspan

The growing stability of the world economy over the past decade may have encouraged investors to accept increasingly lower levels of compensation for risk.

The groups have to accept that price is not as much of a barrier to attendance as was thought by Primedia.

Dick Pound

The Greek federation's decision is strange but not surprising. I am certain that the IAAF will appeal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport. If the IAAF accepts the Greek federation's decision, then WADA will take it up with CAS.

Dick Pound

The Greek federation's decision is strange but not surprising, ... I am certain that the IAAF will appeal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport. If the IAAF accepts the Greek federation's decision, then WADA will take it up with CAS.

Maynard James Keenan

Whenever you try to work through the things that we're trying to work through, that we're addressing, it ends up looking negative. Our goal is nonjudgment, nonfiltered acceptance of everything. So much of our background collectively, especially in the United States, is denying and suppressing and disowning a lot of negativity and the darker areas. You can become swallowed up in it. It's cancerous. The goal should be to define acceptance for everything. To try and consider every aspect. To try to look into the shadows, as well as the light.

Meg Ryan

Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!.

Maxwell Maltz

The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.