Insistence Quotes

Insistence Quote of the day

Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty.

Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged.

The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in the past, and has nothing to do with the present moment.

Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it.

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.

Insanity is the insistence on meaning.

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

Be not held back by fear's insane insistence that sureness lies in doubt. I am not doubtful, but certain. The miracle is always there. I will see them in the light.

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.

The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself

advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

So are you bisexual?” I had asked, and Todd had laughed at my insistence on label. “I guess I'm bipossible,” he had said.

The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without doing a damn thing for them.

The word 'phobic' has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing.

That is the true genius of America-a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles.

The real problem is not the religion itself, but its insistence that the interpretation it offers of the world is the only valid interpretation.

The insistence of European leaders to austerity policies keeps the European economy strapped in stagnation.

The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.

Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there.

There is nothing wrong in saying something, but there should be no protection [insistence] that we are right.

There is no insistence where there is pure love. Insistence is infatuation (deep attachment).