"Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right int he face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend."
- Stephen King
Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts
Stephen King on Popular Movies
Jul 31, 2014
10 Sentences That Can Change Your Perspective on Life
Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.
You learn more from failure than from success. Don't let it stop you. Failure builds character.
The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.
Go where you're celebrated not where you're tolerated.
The person that you will spend the most time with in your life is yourself, so better try to make yourself as interesting as possible.
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily.
Everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.
Comfort is the enemy of achievement.
10 Misogynist Bible Quotes
Jun 23, 2014
Timothy 2:12
"And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence."
Genesis 19:5-8:
They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them." Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."
Isaiah 19:16:
"In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will shudder with fear at the uplifted hand that the LORD Almighty raises against them."
1 Corinthians 14:34:
"Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. "
Genesis 3:16:
To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
1 Corinthians 11:5:
"And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head--it is just as though her head were shaved."
Numbers 31:17 "Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. "
Numbers 31:18 "But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves."
Genesis 2:18
"Here God indicated that woman would possess qualities that would complement those of man within God's arrangement."
Genesis 3:16
"This declaration after Adam and Eve had sinned was not a statement of what men 'should' but what Jehovah foreknew they 'would' do now, that selfishness had become part of human life."
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Three Words You Should Never Say About Yourself
May 29, 2014
When we interact with other people, what do we want? As I started to study that question, I came across a wonderful quote. “There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who don’t.” Robert Benchley.
Psychologists have a bad habit of oversimplifying people. If I truly wanted to capture the richness of the human condition, I needed more than two categories. Imagine my delight, then, when I found evidence that around the world, there are not two… but three styles of interaction.
In every culture, and every industry, research identifies givers, takers, and matchers. Givers are generous: they help others with no strings attached. Takers are selfish: they try to get as much as they can from others. Matchers are fair: I’ll do something for you, if you do something for me (quid pro quo).
We all have our moments of giving, taking, and matching. We also have a style, though, that reflects how we treat most of the people most of the time. Sometimes people asked me about my style, and I was quick to answer: “I’m a giver.” It was natural—helping others is my top guiding principle in life. I feel more comfortable when I’m on the giving side of an exchange. I don’t like trading favors or being transactional.
It was the wrong answer. Last year, something happened that dramatically changed my perspective. I proposed the concept online, talking about and asking readers to self-identify their style. As a new author, nothing was more gratifying than learning that my words mattered to someone else. Given the topic, I expected to hear some stories about giving. I was completely unprepared, though, for what rolled in from some readers:
“When you wrote about givers, you were talking about me, right?”
“Your book made me realize how generous I am.”
"I've always been a giver."
I thought these were isolated incidents… until I received feedback from someone I actually knew. In the span of one week, two of her friends heard about my book (from her). They both told her, “I’ve always been a giver.”
We found it off-putting, and we wondered why. At first, we thought it was the relationship. It’s one thing to tell a stranger you’re a giver. It’s another thing to announce it to a friend. If you’re really friends, wouldn’t they already know?!
Upon further discussion, we realized there was a deeper issue of humility. I decided to test our hunch elsewhere by posing a specific question during a real-life presentation: “How many of you are givers?”
In a typical room, about a third of the hands went up. Then, I asked: “How many of you are givers, but didn’t raise your hand, because you know that would violate the norm of modesty that givers are supposed to live by?”
“Those are the real givers,” I joked. “The moment someone raises a hand and says, ‘I’m a giver,’ my first reaction is, “Nope, you’re a taker.”
I say this in jest, but I’m surfacing a serious point:
When I called myself a giver, I failed the test of humility.
Now, when people ask about my style, I tell them I hold the values of a giver, and I aspire to be one. But whether I succeed in living by those values is not my place to judge. It’s in the eye of the beholder.
The lesson I learned: “I’m a giver” is off limits. Generosity is earned, not claimed. Leave it to other people to describe you as a giver—that’s the highest form of praise.
If that doesn’t happen, you can always name a website after yourself.
Credit: Adam Grant
Image credits: Anchorman
Henry David Thoreau: "The price is time" Quote
Feb 5, 2014
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.- Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational Quote
Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence.
Earl Nightingale Quote
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
- Earl Nightingale
A Quote about Time
Aug 26, 2013
Time is free, But it's priceless.
You Can't own it.
But you can use it.
You can't keep it.
But you can spend it.
Once you've lost is.
You can never get it back.
- Harvey Mackay
18th and 19th Century Philosophers on Misogyny
Oct 22, 2012
"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."Arthur Schopenhauer
"Women are capable of education, but they are not made for activities which demand a universal faculty such as the more advanced sciences, philosophy and certain forms of artistic production... Women regulate their actions not by the demands of universality, but by arbitrary inclinations and opinions."G.W.F Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right, quoted in Alanen, Lilli and Witt, Charlotte, Feminist reflections on the history of philosophy'
Otto Weininger has been accused of misogyny in his book Sex and Character, in which he characterizes the "woman" part of each individual as being essentially "nothing," and having no real existence, having no effective consciousness or rationality.
Friedrich Nietzsche stated that every higher form of civilization implied stricter controls on women (Beyond Good and Evil, 7:238). He is known to have said "Women are less than shallow," and "Are you going to women? Do not forget the whip!" Whether or not this amounts to misogyny, whether his polemic against women is meant to be taken literally, and the exact nature of his opinions of women, are controversial.
Charlotte Witt wrote that Kant's and Aristotle's writings contained overt statements of sexism and racism. She found derogatory remarks about women in Kant's Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime.
Quote, Mark Twain
Sep 10, 2012
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| "But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?" |
Lao Tzu Quote
Sep 3, 2012
If you are depressed,
you are living in the past.
If you are anxious,
you are living in the future.
If you are at peace,
you are living in the present.
- Lao Tzu
These Are The 13 Rules Of Gun fighting Everyone Should Know
Aug 28, 2012
1) Guns have only two enemies: rust and politicians.
2) It’s always
better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
3) Cops carry guns
to protect themselves, not you.
4) Never let someone
or something that threatens you get inside arm’s length.
5) Never say “I’ve
got a gun.” If you need to use deadly force, the first sound they hear
should be the safety clicking off.
6) The average
response time of a 911 call is 23 minutes; the response time of a .357 is
1400 feet per second.
7) The most
important rule in a gunfight is; Always win — cheat if necessary.
8) Make your
attacker advance through a wall of bullets..You may get killed with your own
gun, but he’ll have to beat
you to death with it, cause it’ll be empty.
9) If you’re in a
gun fight;
If you’re not
shooting, you should be loading.
If you’re not
loading, you should be moving.
If you’re not
shooting, moving or loading, you’re probably dead
10) In a life and
death situation, do something...It may be wrong, but do something!
11) If you carry a
gun, people call you paranoid. Nonsense! If you have a gun, what do you have to
be paranoid about?
12) You can say
‘stop’ or alto’ or any other word, but a large bore muzzle pointed at someone’s
head is pretty much a
universal language.
13) You cannot save
the planet, but you may be able to save yourself and your family.
“Peace is that brief
glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading,”
— Thomas Jefferson
The Paradox of our Age - Dalai Lama Quote
Aug 1, 2012
"We have bigger houses, but smaller families;
More conveniences, but less time;
We have more degrees, but less sense;
More knowledge, but less judgement;
More experts, but more problems;
More medicines, but less healthiness;
We've been all the way to the moon and back,
But have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.
We built more computers to hold more
information, to produce more copies than ever,
But have less communication.
We have become long on quantity,
But short on quality.
These are times of fast food
But slow digestion;
Tall man but short character;
Steep profits but shallow relationships.
It is a time when there is much in the window,
But nothing in the room."
~ Dalai Lama
Quote - Molly Ivins
Jul 22, 2012
"I am not anti-gun.
I'm pro-knife.
I'm pro-knife.
Considering the merits
of the knife. In the
first place, you have
to catch up with
someone in order to
stab him. A general
substitution of
knives for guns
would promote
physical fitness.
We'd turn into a
whole nation of great
runners. Plus, knives
don't ricochet. And
people are seldom
killed while cleaning
their knives."
- Molly Ivins
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