#accept

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so. ↗

— Edwin Armstrong

#almost #based #causes #could #exclusively

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#absolutely #actor #anything #behavior #commercially

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable. ↗

— Todd Barry

#chicken #eat #fingers #i #i love

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. ↗

— Melody Beattie

#chaos #clarity #confusion #denial #enough

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go. ↗

— Martha Beck

#accept #alive #being #doing #done

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain. ↗

— Daniel Bell

#existing #field #his #intellectual #knowledge

I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. ↗

— Brene Brown

#self-love #love

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#right #socially #soon #too #unacceptable

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. ↗

— Voltaire

#alone #cards #deals #decide #each

I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#am #beyond #case #far #goes