Ruthless Quotes - Page 7

• Calvin: ¡Mira, un pájaro muerto! Hobbes: Debe haberse golpeado contra una ventana. Calvin: ¿No es precioso? Es tan delicado. Sighhh... una vez que es demasiado tarde, aprecias el milagro que es la vida. Te das cuenta de que la naturaleza es implacable y de que nuestra existencia es muy frágil, temporal y preciosa. Pero para seguir con tus asuntos cotidianos, no puedes pensar realmente en eso... que es probablemente por lo que todo el mundo da por sentado y por lo que actuamos tan irreflexivamente. Es muy confuso. Supongo que todo tendrá sentido cuando seamos mayores. Hobbes: Sin duda.

  Bill Watterson

  Hermoso, Crecer, Pensar

  "Hay tesoros por todas partes". Libro de Bill Watterson, marzo de 1996.

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• To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introducted; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected localities; short words must be excised with ruthless hand; archaisms must be sprinkled like sugar-plums upon the concoction; the fatal human tendency to say things straightforwardly must be detected and defeated by adroit reversals; and, if a glimmer of meaning yet remain under close scrutiny, it must be removed by replacing all the principal verbs by paraphrases in some dead language.

  Aleister Crowley

  Hands, Plums, Verbs

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• Sé implacable a la hora de proteger los días de escritura, es decir, no cedas a las interminables peticiones de tener reuniones "esenciales" y "pendientes desde hace tiempo" en esos días. Lo curioso es que, aunque escribir es mi verdadero trabajo desde hace varios años, parece que todavía tengo que luchar por tener tiempo para hacerlo. Algunas personas no parecen comprender que todavía tengo que sentarme tranquilamente a escribir los libros, pues aparentemente creen que surgen como setas sin mi connivencia. Por lo tanto, tengo que proteger el tiempo que dedico a escribir como un colacuerno húngaro protege a su primogénito.

  J. K. Rowling

  Jobs, Believe, Book

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• One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it pursues its enemies. It is cunning and ruthless, it sends its bloodhounds everywhere. By night it feeds on images of disaster: the sack of cities, the rape of populations, pyramids of bones, acres of desolation.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Night, Cities, Pyramids

  J. M. Coetzee (1980). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, Penguin Group USA

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• I have seen that there are a number of people who benefit from doing loving kindness meditation, either prior to or along with mindfulness meditation. It varies from person to person of course, but for many, their practice of mindfulness will bring along old habits of self-judgment and ruthless criticism, so it is not actually mindfulness.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Practice, Old Habits

  "Una conversación con la profesora de meditación y cofundadora de la Insight Meditation Society: Sharon Salzberg". Entrevista con Nancy Alder, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Cosmic love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/ dislike them or not.

  John C. Lilly

  Love Is, Religion, Lessons

  John C. Lilly, Antonietta Lilly (1976). “The Dyadic Cyclone: The Autobiography of a Couple”

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• Florey was not an easy personality. His drive and ambition were manifest from the day he arrived ... He could be ruthless and selfish; on the other hand, he could show kindliness, a warm humanity and, at times, sentiment and a sense of humour.

  Allen Drury

  Selfish, Ambition, Science

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• People with antisocial personality disorders aren't automatically bad - they simply approach the world with a more ruthless set of lenses. The lack of empathy or very weak empathy and the ability to read other people's weak spots can be a flammable combination when you get in the way of something they want. But they aren't a different species. They're a part of our spectrum.

  Eden Robinson

  People, Empathy, Personality

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• It might sound trite, but happiness is a decision not a destination, and my choices now are all based on whether not a particular action will get me closer to my goals. It's something I'm quite ruthless about, and it helps me avoid the aforementioned wild goose chases!

  Suw Charman-Anderson

  Goal, Choices, Decision

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• Mao appears to be quite free from symptoms of megalomania, but he has a deep sense of personal dignity, and something about him suggests a power of ruthless decision when he deems it necessary.

  Edgar Nieve

  Decision, Dignity, Mao

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Ganar, Juegos, Jugar

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• El papel de las religiones en la dominación y destrucción de las civilizaciones africanas fue despiadado... El Islam fue tan culpable como el resto.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Civilization, Islam, Roles

  John Henrik Clarke (1992). “Christopher Columbus & the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery & the Rise of European Capitalism”, A & B Distributors

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• I have a very simple philosophy of life: Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passionate, kindness. Life is sacred everywhere. We all have better things to do than beat each other up. Arguing for the exception is to invest it with energy, it's to negotiate the loophole. The commitment to kindness must be total.

  David Gerrold

  Kindness, Philosophy, Commitment

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• Implacable no es necesariamente la palabra que yo usaría, pero sí dura, decidida, que entiende cuáles son los problemas y que comprende que el trabajo del presidente de los Estados Unidos es proteger al pueblo de este país y hacer lo que sea necesario para conseguirlo.

  Benjamin Carson

  País, Empleo, Orden

  Fuente: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.

  Thomas Gray

  Kings, Air, Wings

  'The Bard' (1757) l. 1

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• Hay un régimen totalitario dentro de cada uno de nosotros. Estamos gobernados por un politburó despiadado que establece nuestras normas y nos conduce de un plan quinquenal a otro. El individuo autónomo que tiene que justificar su existencia por su propio esfuerzo está en eterna esclavitud de sí mismo.

  Eric Hoffer

  Años, Esfuerzo, Individualidad

  Eric Hoffer (1996). "El estado pasional de la mente"

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• El único tema que preocupaba a menos estadounidenses auténticos que el trato a los presos de Guantánamo era la Copa Mundial de Fútbol. Estados Unidos libra una épica batalla mundial contra salvajes despiadados que buscan nuestra destrucción, y los liberales se compadecen de los terroristas.

  Ann Coulter

  Fútbol, Lo Siento, Épico

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• Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Guerra, Lucha, Hombres

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.399, Princeton University Press

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• Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Mushrooms, Long

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• People, you see... are ruthless and foolish. When they're young, in order to have money and power, they give up everything like health and youth. And when they get sick, become old, and have all the money and power... in order to find their health and youth again, they spend all of the wealth they've wasted so much energy and time to accumulate.

  Jae Hee

  Giving Up, Drama, Order

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• If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Paz, guerra, patriotismo

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• El problema con el capitalismo es que recompensa mejor la peor parte de nosotros: los impulsos despiadados, competitivos, conspiradores, oportunistas y adquisitivos, dando poca recompensa y a menudo mucho castigo -o al menos mucha desventaja- a la honestidad, la compasión, el juego limpio, muchas formas de trabajo duro, el amor a la justicia y la preocupación por los necesitados.

  Michael Parenti

  Honesty, Hard Work, Compassion

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• Esa doctrina de paz a cualquier precio ha hecho más daño que cualquiera que yo recuerde que haya estado a flote en este país. Ha ocasionado más guerras que cualquiera de los más despiadados conquistadores. Ha perturbado y casi destruido ese equilibrio político tan necesario para las libertades y el bienestar del mundo.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  País, Paz, Guerra

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• The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless.

  Catherine Keener

  Machines, Stuff, Photographer

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• No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not an option.

  Robert A. Burton

  Good Life, Humility, Reflection

  Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.162, Macmillan

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