Nonsocial Quotes & Sayings

When you believe you will get what you deserve, you will get what you deserve — Robert J. Braathe

common sense observations of human behavior support a similar dissociation in reasoning abilities which cuts in both directions. We all know persons who are exceedingly clever in their social navigation, who have an unerring sense of how to seek advantage for themselves and for their group, but who can be remarkably inept when trusted with a nonpersonal, nonsocial problem. The reverse condition is just as dramatic: We all know creative scientists and artists whose social sense is a disgrace, and who regularly harm themselves and others with their behavior. The absent-minded professor is the benign variety of the latter type. At work, in these different personality styles, are the presence or absence of what Howard Gardner has called "social intelligence," or the presence or absence of one or the other of his multiple intelligences such as the "mathematical. — Antonio R. Damasio

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices — Adolf Hitler

As I forgive, I set myself free and experience the bliss of inner peace. — Louise Hay

You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That's the divine contract of a little something we call free will. — Elizabeth Gilbert

This treadmill lifestyle ain't workin for me ...
It's from ya crib to ya lab to ya job to make a profit,
And at the day's end you still got nothing accomplished. — Phonte

Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta. — Billy Graham

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude. — John Travolta

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less. — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC. — Gavyn Davies

Nobody has really grasped yet the great wealth that can be made selling data over the Web. There are 100 million potential customers out there. — Michael J. Saylor

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them. — Augustine Of Hippo

My life in Hollywood surrounded by celebrities became a point of view for me - sports, fashion, music, film, arts, and politics as a media play. — John Van Hamersveld

The guy's name was Colt.
Colt, said Thebes. Like a baby, male horse?
I guess, said the guy, or a gun.
Well, which do you prefer? she said.
What do you mean? he asked.
Like, how do you prefer to think of yourself? As a baby, male horse?
No, he said, he didn't really like to think of himself that way.
Well, then, as a gun? she said.
No, not really, he said. He preferred basically not to think of himself at all. — Miriam Toews

We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world. — Scot McKnight