Citas imperativas

• Si de verdad quieres convertirte en una persona mejor, es imprescindible que aprendas a sentirte bien contigo misma.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspiración, Quiérete a ti mismo, Aprendizaje

  Joel Osteen (2012). "It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set", p.87, Simon and Schuster.

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• Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

  Vandana Shiva

  Luxury, Diversity, Survival

  Vandana Shiva (2005). “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace”, p.94, Zed Books

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• All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

  Ayn Rand

  Evil, Novelists, Use

  "The Virtue of Selfishness". Book by Ayn Rand, 1964.

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• Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Society, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.15, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Human beings are not meant to live alone. There is a fundamental biological imperative that propels you and every organism on this planet to be in a community, to be in relationship with other organisms.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Relationship, People, Community

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• El concepto de soberanía nacional ha sido un principio inmutable, incluso sagrado, de las relaciones internacionales. Es un principio que sólo cederá lentamente y a regañadientes ante los nuevos imperativos de la cooperación medioambiental mundial. Es sencillamente inviable que la soberanía sea ejercida unilateralmente por Estados nación individuales, por poderosos que sean. La comunidad mundial debe tener garantizada la seguridad medioambiental.

  Maurice Strong

  Potente, Rendimiento, Comunidad

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• Cada hombre tiene su propio destino: el único imperativo es seguirlo, aceptarlo, no importa adónde le lleve.

  Henry Miller

  Integridad, Compromiso, Destino

  Henry Miller (1941). "La sabiduría del corazón", p. 22, New Directions Publishing.

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• [ To break the law] would still be an imperative. I guess we do it for both reasons. You try to be a Christian, you try to come from that tradition of the Jewish prophets and then Christ and everything since. That becomes your handbook. "Witness" is the key word. You witness against the injustice, against the atrocity, against the heavy-handedness, and all the rest. We try to make a statement to other people, and we try to say it's your responsibility, too.

  Philip Berrigan

  Christian, Responsibility, Law

  Fuente: law-journals-books.vlex.com

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• Working hard and doing doing great work is as imperative as breathing. Creating great work warms the heart and enriches the soul. Those of us lucky enough to spend our days doing something we love, something we're good at, are rich. If you do not work passionately (even furiously) at being the best in the world at what you do, you fail your talent, your destiny, and your god.

  George Lois

  Heart, Destiny, Breathing

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• Pero al mismo tiempo, había algo que necesitábamos desde el principio, y que sin duda necesitaremos de aquí en adelante en la Nueva Jerusalén: la capacidad de tomarnos en serio nuestra libertad y actuar en consecuencia, de vivir sin miedo a cometer errores, sino sabiendo que ningún error puede compararse con el amor que nos atrae a casa. Mi arrepentimiento, en consecuencia, no es tanto por mis fallos como por la actitud de dos bits hacia ellos por la que los hice más soberanos que la gracia. La gracia -el imperativo de oír la música, no sólo de escuchar los errores- convierte todas las debilidades en ocasiones de gloria.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Jesús, Actitud, Error

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• Mientras estamos sometidos a ellos, los "estados de ánimo" y los "espíritus" de la naturaleza carecen de moral. Te lanzan una alegría abrumadora, una grandeza insoportable, una sombría desolación. Haz de ellos lo que puedas, si es que tienes que hacer algo. El único imperativo de la naturaleza es: "Mira. Escucha. Atiende.

  C. S. Lewis

  Nature, Looks, Spirit

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• El imperativo típico de la biología no es "Tú debes... sino "Si... entonces... si no".

  Steven Pinker

  Typical, Biology, If Then

  Steven Pinker (2009). "Cómo funciona la mente", p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of all possible reasons for doing so - the imperative, invincible call of God. No one is to show cause why he ought not to be a Minister: he is to show cause why he should be a Minister. His call to the sacred profession is not the absence of a call to any other pursuit; it is direct, immediate, powerful, to this very department of labour. He is not here because he can be nowhere else, but he is nowhere else because he must be here.

  James Henley Thornwell

  Christian, Powerful, Rich Or Poor

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• Equal pay is not yet equal. A woman makes $0.77 on a dollar and women of color make $0.67... We feel so passionately about this because we are not only running for office, but we each, in our own way, have lived it. We have seen it. We have understood the pain and the injustice that has come because of race, because of gender. And it's imperative that... we make it very clear that each of us will address these issues.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Pain, Issues

  Hillary Clinton's remarks at the Democratic presidential debate sponsored by CNN and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, edition.cnn.com. January 21, 2008.

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• I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Thinking, Earth

  Fuente: inamerica.blogs.cnn.com

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• In our course we teach that "no thought lives in your head rent-free." Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost. It will either move you toward happiness and success or away from it. It will either empower you or disempower you. That's why it is imperative you choose your thoughts and beliefs wisely.

  T. Harv Eker

  Success, Moving, Thinking

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Jul 31, 2012

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• Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.

  Ruth Nanda Anshen

  Spiritual, Recovery, Data

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• El desarme controlado y universal es el imperativo de nuestro tiempo. Espero que la demanda de este desarme por parte de los cientos de millones de personas cuya principal preocupación es su futuro y el de sus hijos, sea tan universal e insistente que ningún hombre, ningún gobierno, pueda resistirla.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Children, War

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.830, Best Books on

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• Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.

  Robert McKee

  Creativity, Differences, Achievement

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• ...Podemos encontrarnos con muchas derrotas, pero no debemos dejarnos vencer. Suena bien, lo sé, pero creo que un diamante es el resultado de una presión extrema y del tiempo. Menos tiempo es cristal. Menos que eso es carbón. Menos que eso es hojas fosilizadas. Menos que eso es simplemente tierra. En todo mi trabajo, en las películas que escribo, las letras de las canciones, la poesía, la prosa, los ensayos, estoy diciendo que podemos encontrarnos con muchas derrotas -quizá sea imperativo que nos encontremos con las derrotas-, pero somos mucho más fuertes de lo que aparentamos ser y quizá mucho mejores de lo que nos permitimos ser.

  Maya Angelou

  Motivational, Determination, Believe

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• La principal amenaza para la naturaleza y las personas procede hoy de la centralización y monopolización del poder y el control. Hasta que la diversidad no se convierta en la lógica de la producción, no habrá oportunidad para la sostenibilidad, la justicia y la paz. Cultivar y conservar la diversidad no es un lujo en nuestros tiempos: es un imperativo de supervivencia.

  Vandana Shiva

  Lujo, justicia, diversidad

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• Egypt is indeed deeply divided. Without reconciliation we have no future. The Muslim Brotherhood is an important part of our society. I very much hope that it will participate in the next round of talks. I will be the first to protest if the imperative of fairness isn't adhered to.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Egypt, Brotherhood, Important

  "Interview with Egyptian Politician ElBaradei 'This Was Not a Coup'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. July 8, 2013.

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• The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is a greater moral imperative now than ever before, because for the first time humanity has the instruments at hand to defeat this cruel enemy at a very reasonable cost. We have the ability to provide food for all within the next three decades.

  George McGovern

  Hands, Years, Humanity

  George McGovern (2001). “The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time”, p.11, Rowman & Littlefield

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• In my spiritual and academic journeys, I have learned that it is imperative for Christians to pursue truth at all costs.

  Daniel B. Wallace

  Christian, Spiritual, Journey

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• No species, ours included, possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by its genetic history.

  Edward'O

  Purpose, Species

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