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The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
by John W. Gardner (Educator, American , born in 1912) keywords: accept, assumptions, capable, capacity, caught, creative, free, himself, individual, pressures, questioning, rest, social, us, web , which As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.
by Robyn Hitchcock (Musician, English , born in 1953) keywords: end, established, good, norm, probably, questioning, soon, start, thing , which If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.
by Dee Hock (Businessman , American) keywords: bright, cadre, committed, concepts, ego, emerging, essential, exploring, position, possible, power, questioning, small, such, then, these, understanding, very , your I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?
by Randy Johnson (Athlete, American , born in 1963) keywords: age, because, covered, issue, looked, numbers, questioning, throw, tired, watched , would I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.
by Sheryl Lee (Actor, American , born in 1967) keywords: back, decade, done, got, had, introspective, just, life, looked, more, past, questioning, realized, really, sort, stopped, than, thought, turned , work As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.
by Myriam Miedzian (Actor , American) keywords: behavior, definition, itself, judging, judgment, long, male, norm, questioning, serious, standard, subject, taken , traits Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
by Richard M. Nixon (President, American , born in 1913) keywords: another, assigned, branch, doctrine, executive, exercises, government, his, manner, personally, powers, president, questioning, separation, subject, under , which Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
by Albert Pike (Lawyer, American , born in 1809) keywords: accompany, comparison, discovery, divine, doubt, doubting, essential, faculty, improvement, itself, judgment, man, must, onward, preliminary, prerogative, progress, questioning, reason, stages, those, useless, which, without , would Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.
by Eriq La Salle (Actor, American , born in 1962) keywords: biggest, blockbuster, debating, film, maybe, out, own, questioning, resonates, see, sense, set, some, spirituality, succeeded, their, then , will Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.
by Peter Straub (Writer, American , born in 1943) keywords: any, apparent, authority, call, could, events, guess, indeterminacy, instead, interested, narrative, particular, question, questioning , representation Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.
by Amber Tamblyn (Actor, American , born in 1983) keywords: action, affected, doing, domino, effect, else, everyone, fairy, girl, how, less, life, miracles, more, opposed, our, questioning, seems, show, sort , tale I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.
by Lee Tergesen (Actor, American , born in 1965) keywords: always, back, caused, character, everybody, extent, find, forgiveness, get, himself, life, lost, lot, playing, questioning, say, some, something, struggles, their, these, things, think, touch, trying , would The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.
by Robert Vaughn (Actor, American , born in 1932) keywords: certain, concluding, continued, given, know, man, marvelous, occurrences, questioning, reasons, searching, thing, thousands, ultimately , years The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
by Gore Vidal (Novelist, American , born in 1925) topics: Government keywords: along, class, drudge, ever, genius, get, heavy, inequity, kept, majority, most, nothing, our, paying, questioning, return, ruling, system, taxes, where , which Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
by Earl Warren (Judge, American , born in 1891) keywords: against, any, appointed, attorney, does, either, evidence, him, make, may, must, person, presence, prior, questioning, remain, retained, right, silent, statement, used , warned As the U.S., the world is questioning why not end it, and so if, in fact, we were to pull out, the world would definitely question why we did this to begin with. But I still believe the world would call upon us for help if they needed it.
by Montel Williams (Entertainer, American , born in 1956) keywords: begin, believe, call, definitely, did, end, fact, help, needed, out, pull, question, questioning, still, upon, us, were, why, world , would The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
by Bob Woodward (Journalist, American , born in 1943) keywords: air, amendment, authenticity, believe, believer, coup, first, made, more, questioning, right, silent, some, story, suggestions, than, their, times, views, washington , wrote I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.
by Lee Kuan Yew (Statesman, Singaporean , born in 1923) keywords: able, admiring, better, britain, job, occupation, product, questioning, same, than, time, times, war, whether , years
